EXTRACTS. The Governor, of New Zealand. (From the Sydney Herald.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 37, 30 December 1843, Page 3

EXTRACTS. The Governor, of New Zealand. (From the Sydney Herald.)

On Saturday, at twelve o'clock, Governor Fitzroy attended at the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of receiving an address, which had been voted to him at a meeting held on the previous Thursday. The address was read by Major Christie, who prefaced it with tho following remarks :—: — " May it please Your Excellency, — " As Chairman of a meeting held on Thursday last, I have been deputed to convey to you an address, numerously signed, and which embodies our feelings of pleasure in •welcoming to these shores her Majesty's Representative for New Zealand. Having a great stake in the welfare and prosperity of that country, it is to us a source of extreme satisfaction, that her Majesty has selected for that high office an individual who is already conversant with the wants of tho colony, and who enters on his duties with an unbiassed and impartial spirit. We cheerfully hail the present occasion as presenting a new and eventful era in the history of New Zealand : and if hopes deferred, and claims long outstanding, have at any time made us querulous or impatient, we are now quitewilling to dismiss from our minds all despondent feelings, and to reposo the fullest confidence in the acts and intentions of your Excellency's administration. " I have only to add, on the part of tho Deputation, that we heartily concur in every expression of the address, and unite very cordially in tho good wishes it contains." He then read the address, which, with tho reply, we give below : —

" Sydney, November'3o, 1843. "To His Excellency Capt. Fitzroy, R. N., Governor in Chief, &c, &c, &c, of New Zealand. " S IR) We, the undersigned, landholders, claimants to land, and others interested in the prosperity of New Zealand, beg leave most respectfully to congratulate Your Excellency on your appointment to the Government of that Colony, and on your safe arrival thus far. "On such an occasion, we consider it-our duty, as faithful subjects of her Majesty, to offer Your Excellency, as Her Representative, our warmest assurances of loyalty, and of our cordial intention to support the authority of legitimate Government with our best energies and co-operation in carrying out the grand objects of British colonization on sound and equitable " In Your Excellency Wr& and ability to achieve these great objects in New Zealand, we beg to express our confidence ; and great and ruinous as have been the disadvantages and disappointments under which the colonists of New Zealand have had to struggle for the last four years, we trust that we may now hail the advent of Your Excellency as a harbinger of a better state of things, and that no further delay will take place in the equitable adjustment of claims, and in the establishment of legal titles to land in New Zealand, " With our best congratulations and warmest wishes for the safe arrival in New Zealand, of Your Excellency, Mrs. Fitzroy, and family, ■' We have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient and humble .servants." Signed by W. 11. Christie, Chairman, and 116 others interested. " Sydney, December 2, 1843. " Gentlemen, — I beg to offer you my cordial thanks, for your congratulations on my appointment to the Government of New Zealand, and on my arrival here. "As the representative of our Sovereign -in New Zealand, it is very gratifying to me to receive your assurances of loyalty, and of your intention to support the authority of .government. "I trust that the confidence you are pleased to express in myself will not be misplaced, and that your expectations will not prove to have been ill-founded. " My utmost exertions will be steadily directed to carrying out the just and benevolent •views of her Majesty the Queen towards all classes of her Majesty's subjects. " Sincerely thanking you for your Had wishes for the safe arrival of Mrs. Fitzroy, any family, and myself, in New Zealand, " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your very obedient humble servant, "ROBERT FITZROY, v'u ' Governor of New Zealand." " To Major Christie, and other gentlemen •interested in New Zealand." After the address and reply, His Excellency entered into conversation with the gentlemen present, for at least an hour, explaining fully his views with respect to the land-claims. Me. Chapman. — We find the following in one of the English papers recently received : — " A number of landowners and friends of settlers in New Zealand met at the Hall of Commerce, on Wednesday, to present a valuable breakfast service of plate to Mr. H. S. Chapman, of the Middle Temple, the late editor of the New Zealand Journal, for his valuable exertions in promoting the colonization of New Zealand. Interesting addresses were delivered by the Earl of Devon, the spokesman of the subscribers, Sir I. L. Goldsmid, and Mr. Chapman. The subscription had been arranged on the occasion of Mr. Chapman's intended emigration to New Zealand as a settler, but before his appointment by Lord Stanley to the Judgeship at Wellington, which has just taken place, — an appointment that attests the improved policy to be carried out by the new Governor, and the good understanding between the officials of Downing-street and the colonizing Company." Mr. Chapman is now in Sydney, on his way by the Bangalore. — Ib.