Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 175, 2 February 1848, Page 3

Extracts.

The Dpatii of Canning, — The gloom which Hie death of Mr. Canning occasioned was general throughout the land ; and the opinion which the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV,) expressed on the moment of hearing it, " They have killed him, I knew they would kill him,' 1 was also general, and more especially with those who mixed with public men and public affairs. As Prime Minister, succeeding to the popular government of Lord Liverpool, he had announced an intention to consider, but nothing more for the present, what relief with safety could be vouch* safed to the Catholics. — This alarmed his friends, who, in great haste, and in an evil hour, resigned their official Mtiiiitions, which he was left to fill up with those of his personal fuends among the whi^s, to enable him to carry on the government. By the Tories he found lie was deserted— denounced as having betrayed them. The newspapers in their cause abused aod slandered him with that virulence and malignity usually bestowed upon an apostate. They carried their malevolence so far as to taunt him with his mean birth and family connexions ; and even those who were once his most intimate friends taunted him or tuined their backs upon him. The secession of Mr. Canning's Tory or Proteitant friends, and his union with those who lied always been his political enemies, cannot but bring to one's mind what is now occurring with regard to Sir Robert Peel. His friends have deserted him because of his earnest endeavours to procure food and clothing for the people, and at reasonable prices. Mr Canning's friends left him because he wished to confer toleration on the immense body of Catholic subjects. The kind and amiable feelings of Mr. Canning were of too sensitive a nature to enable him to bear up against the dtseition of old friends, the ambiguous suppoitof new ones, and the taunts ot enemies. His mind was ill at ease, his spirits drooped, and he fled for repoie to a houfe at Cluswick, where he had one friend who did not desert him ; and here he terminated his mortal career, in recovering peace of mind and tranquillity as the end approached. That mind and those spirits, the eloquence and playfulness of which wereonie the admiration of all who had the happiness of his acquaintance, were now at rest. — Autobiography of Sir John Barrow.

A MAORI HARPOONEER. " As may be believed, Bemboo was a wild one after a fish ; indeed, all New Zealanders engaged in this business are ; it seems to harmonise sweetly with their blood-thirsty propensities. At sea, the best English they speak is the South Seaman's slogan in lowerng away, • A dead whale or a stove boat !' Game to the marrow, these fellows are generally selected for harpooneers; a post in which a nervous timid man would be rather out of his element. •' In daiting, thp harpooneer, of course, stands erect in the head of the boat, one knee braced against a support. But Bemboo disdained this ; and was always pulled up to his fish, balancing himself light on the gun wala. «' But to my story. One morning at day break, they brought him to a large lone whale. He darted his haipoon and missed ; and the fish sounded. After a while, the monster rose again about- a mile off, and they made after him. But he was frightened, or •gallied,' as they callit ; andjnoon came, and the boat was still chasing him. In whaling, as long as the fish is in sight, and no matter what may have been previously undergone, there is no giving up, except when night comes; and now-a-days, when whales aic so hard to he got, frequently not even then. Ac last, Bemboo's whale was alongside for the second time. He darted both harpoons ; but, as sometimes happens to the best men, by some unaccountable chance [once more missed. Though it is wtll known that such failures will happen at times, they nevertheless occasion the bitterest disappointment to a boat's crew, generally expreased in curses both loud and deep. And fno wonder. Let any man pull with might and main for houis and hours together, under a burning sun ; and if it does not make him a lit'le peevish, he is no sailor. " The taunts of the seamen may have maddened the Maori ; howevei no sooner -was he brought up again, than harpoon in hand, he bounded upon the whale's back, and for one dizzy lecond was seen there. The next, all was foam and fury, and both were out of sight. The men sheered off, flinging overboard the line as Uat as they cou'.d ; while ahead nothing was seen but a red whirlpool of blood and brine. " Presently a dark object swam out; the line began to straiten ; then smoked round the loggerhead ; and quick as thought, the boat sped like an arrow through the water. They were ' fast,' and the whale was running. " Where was the Maori ? His brown hand was on the buac's gunwale; and he was hauled aboard in the Tery midst of the mad bubbles that burst under the bows.- " Such a man, or devil, if you will, was Bemboo. — Ho man Melville's Omoo.

Lieutenant Colonel Crotton, of the 6th Regiment, who, it will be remembered, went out in June, 1846, to the Hudson's Bay Company's territories, in com mand of an expedition on special service, arrived Jn England by the last steamer from Boston, having performed the duties assigned to htm. The troop* will return to England next year, either by Hudson's Bay, or the route of Luke Superior to Canada.

To the Editor of the Neiv Zealander. Howick, Ist February, 1818. Sir,— l think it just to the Royal New Zealand Fennblea, to request the insertion in your pages of Hie names ot thoae who came forward with their libeial hubsrriptions, on its being intimated that a SchoolRoom was required for the use of the Roman C itholic children, and which is to lerve as a tempoiary CUapel until such time a 9 the proper edilice shall have been erected. The following is the list, and which will remain open for the reception of the names of those who may feel inclined to forward their mite in furtherance of so laudable an institution. I am Sir, Your obedient Servant, A. M. GARIN, Roman Catholic Piiest.

To ike Editor of the New Zealander. Chapel House, Auckland, February Ist, IS4B. Sin, The generous manner in whii-h the Catholic portion of the Royal New Zealand Fencibles stationed at Onelninga, and the Catholics residing in that neighbourhood, have responded to the appeal which I made on Sunday last, merits an honourable notice in jour journal. I proposed to erect a House, which would seive both for aSchool-ioom and a temporary Chapel, and the zeal which they have shewn in subscribing has induced me to hand you their names for publication, in the hope that many others, equally zealous, may second their efforts, by addiug their names to the list. I am Sir, Your obedient Servant, H. T. SKO.V.

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