WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 273, 19 December 1861, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) ■ ' 16th Doc. 1861. Last week we had an arrival from Auckland ; the news upon the whole is most satisfactory. In that province, I am pretty certain in asserting we shall have no Maori war. Sir George Grey has* conciliated the natives very "much, and they highly approve of his policy. The letters received from home at .Auckland were highly condemnatory of Governor Browne’s war proceedings ; they are beginning now to get their eyes opened, and to understand the question better. Colonel Gore Browne is done for as a statesman, notwithstanding the fulsome address presented to him by Messrs. William Spain, M. E. Murrior and Co., who hacEthe impertinence to pass themselves off as Sydney representatives of New Zealand. Mr, Mantell has resigned his seat as- Native minister, which has been accepted by Mr. Fox, with Mr. Dillon Bell’s assistance. Mr. Donald ;McEekf£‘arid 7 Mr' : Serancke are both to be sent ! ddwh ! here immediately, to: do what they neglected years ago—-namely , to settle land disputes, the continuance of which has been so detrimental to the settlers, and will also cause double expence -to the Government; after the completion of some blocks, Donald goes <hack to His Highland home on leave of absence for two years ; he has feathered his nest well in New Zealand. As soon as ever liis.. Excellency can c-mahage'-it, he is to pay Wellington a visit ; I should not be surprised if not ihiich later than this month. It liasf- at last hdzed ; but; that Sir Charles Clifford’s a/w for his sudden adherence-to the Stafford ahinisti-y, ; in addition to -Mi*. Weld’s billet, was a promise from Stafford of a Knighthood he could not accomplish: for himself. Dr. Miunro was also promised to, be made Sir David-^l,dpii4t.they : wish " they may'get it?” I can’t make out the Taranaki news ; I hear that the murderous-lot,-the Ngatiruanuis, are very troublesome still, andrefuseko .allow the Wellington mail to pass this the Governor is - to insist upon. I will not be astonished at our yet having a brush with them. Mr. Kennedy,-;-, an. intelligent•• business man, the General Manager and- Inspector of the New Zealand Bank, has arrived here from Auckland, accompanied by Mr. Bussell, Bank Solicitor, and Mr. Arthur Knowles,; -late .of the U. B. A., who -is going to act as interim manager here ;> the}- expect to open in a fortnight, and have taken.premises—Swinborne’s. This Bank has been most successful. Mr. J. C. Baymond has been snubbed by' the Union, is superseded as New Zealand Inspector by Mr. Simpson, and goes as Manager to Sydney in room of Mr. Adam Burnes, who has been removed to Melturne. It’s the intention of the New I and Bank to open a Branch at Wangan;d. They have done very well with their. Taranaki establishment.' Your spirited 5 townsman Treweek has chartered the Fanny a Garriques; and Smith and Rowlands the Hermine, for stock and horses to Otagop. YVur trader the Tyne is on the slip;“ getting neiy-eoppered.. and a thorough overhauling Ushc will be

ready for cargo: this week.- Since writing I hear that Mr. Boddingtofi,'"the .son of ail old esteemed- ‘settler,-dias-’ left -the Union’ to join, at pn advanced salary, the New ! Zealand Bank. ‘ .