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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 21, 14 September 1848, Page 2

By the Sisters, we have received files of Southern papers up to the 30th August. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief and Lady Grey, arrived in Port Nicholson on the 15th August, after a tedious passage of fourteen days, having encountered very rough weather off the East Cape. Together with the announcement of the Governor's arrival, the Spectator gives the following report, which to say the least, appears to have sprung up in the South without loss of time. " It is confidently reported that it is the intention of his Excellency to transfer the seat of government of these islands to Wellington. We are inclined to place confidence in the report, as we can readily believe that his Excellency's matured expenenceof the peculiar advantages and central position of this settlement, and of the general character of its inhabitants, would lead hiin to this conclusion.' 1 We really wish that the Spectator would enlighten us as to the meaning of a phrase <••■* which at present we aie unable to attach tBP; definite idea. So long ai there are two seats of ' got eminent, it is difficult to understand how tlie change is to be effected. The Dido arrived at Wellington on the 24th August, after a favourable passage of eighteen days. By her, the intelligence was received of an address to Governor Eitzßoy having been numerously signed in Auckland, which, as might have been expected, caused a violent explosion of wrath at the South. The Victory had armed at Otakou, with about thirty cabin passengers for Otakou, and the remainder for Wellingson, Nelson, and the other settlements in Cook's Straits. She brought with her a report that the Church of England settlement scheme, which was talked of some years since, and afterwards set aside, has been revived by the New Zealand Company ; that Lords Lincoln and Harrowby,the Bishop of London, several members of Parliament and other influential persons have evinced great interest in the scheme, and that an association had been formed to carry it out on a similar plan to thit of Otakou. The site of the new settlement is to be in the Wairarapa district, and if the land be speedily acquired from the natives, it is believed that immediate measures will be taken for founding the settlement. The price of land is to be- £3 per acre. It is also reported that New Zealand will be di\ ided into two sees, and a Bishop appointed to the southern province. Mr. Fox had resigned the appoiutment of Attornev-Geueral for the southern piovince. The Marriage Ordinance was said to have been disallowed. Another Blue Book had been published relative to the affairs of New Zealaud. It contains the despatches of Lieutenant Colonel M'Cleverty on the Wanganui campaign, with a long report from Captain Sotheby, detailing the results of his visit to the Bay of Islands. | His Excellency was expected to take an early opportunity of sailing for Auckland—this very day, we believe—from whence he purposed returning as soon as possible to the south. Nothing: had yet been publicly done with regard to the constitution. We are informed that Mr. Gisborne, late private secretary to Lieut.-Gov. Eyre, is appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands. The Nelson papers aie all of date prior to the two which were lately received. They contain no matter of interest. llobart Town files have been received via Wellington, up to June 7th. They were much occupied with a judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Wateihouse v. Procter, wherein an action was brought against the Collector of Customs for duties alleged to have been illegally exacted under the 15 percent. Duties Act. Inasmuch as that Act did nut contain an appropriation clause, specifying, in the terms of the Huskisson Act, the precise purposes to which such duties were to be applied, the Court decided that the duties under the Customs' Act are specially exempt fiomthe operation of that clause. We find in it a notice of the Burra Burra mines m South Australia, from which the following is an extract. '■ The richness of these ores is the most wonderful part of the story ; the refuse and rubbish is worth about twice as much as the best of the Kow wow" (so it is called) ■' or New Zealand ore. The liui re is in short health, youth, and beauty— Kow trow a pauper mendicant in the last stage of consumption."