IMPORTANT NEWS.—DECISION OF the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS on NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 145, 14 December 1844, Page 163

IMPORTANT NEWS.— DECISION OF the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS on NEW ZEALAND AFFAIRS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Examiner. Sib — I beg to enclose you a copy of a letter from Mr. E. Gibbon Wakefield to Colonel Wakefield, from which you will learn that the inquiry of the Parliamentary Committee into the differences existing between the Colonial Office and the New Zealand Company, has terminated favourably to the latter. In publishing this document for the encouragement of those settlers who are patiently and courageously contending with the difficulties attendant upon the temporary suspension of the Company's operations, I am anxious to avoid exciting in them any false hopes of immediate advantage. That the affairs of the New Zealand Company will' now be placed upon a foundation of permanent prosperity, we may confidently expect ; but as yet no improvement has taken place in the financial position of its agents in the colony, nor can I hold out any prospect of its resuming the employment of labour. I remain, sir, Your obedient servant, William Fox, Acting Resident Agent of the Nelson, Dec. 11. N. Z. C, Nelson.

To Colonel W. Wakefield, Wellington. My dear William — I am writing to you by every chance, to let you know that the Committee of the House of Commons to whom was referred the difference between the Company and the Colonial Office, has passed resolutions deciding every point of importance in the favour of the Company, and condemning the policy and conduct of the Local Government from the beginning to the end, so far as it is known here. The report, explanatory of the resolutions, will not be presented to the house till next week ; but the resolutions are irrevocable, and constitute the pith of the committee's decision. The committee consisted of ten supporters of Government, and five of the opposition. Until the report shall be presented to the house, there can be no publicity; and I cannot speak of the resolutions except in general terms, which express the knowledge of them which hundreds possess. We shall send out a fast-sailing vessel on purpose, with copies of the report and all particulars. The common opinion here is, that when the resolutions with the evidence on which they are based shall be published, public confidence in the Company will be restored ; and that a large number of cabin-passage emigrants will at once proceed to the three settlements. Many are known to be waiting only for the decision of Parliament. Yours, ever affectionately, E. G. Wakefield. New Zealand Company's House, July 16, 1844.