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New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1638, 28 December 1861, Page 5

[From the “New Zealand Examiner,” September 1/.] The removal of Sir George Grey from the Cape to New Zealand has necessitated a great number of changes in the Governorships of our Colonial dependencies. The following is the list;— Philip E. Wodehouse, Esq., C.jL, late Governor of British Guiana, is to succeed Sir G. Grey at the Capo of Good Hope; Francis Hincks, Esq., now Governor of of Barba'ioes, is to succeed Mr. Wodehouse in British Guiana; the lion. Arthur Gordon, the youngest son of the late Earl of Aberdeen, is to succeed the Hon. Henry Manners Sutton in New Brunswick; Colonel Gore Browne, C.8., late Governor of New Zealand, is to succeed Sir Henry E. F. Young in Tasmania; Sir Dominic Daly, late Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward’s Island, is to succeed Sir Richard Macdonnell in South Australia; J. S. Hamilton, Esq., formerly Comptroller-General of Convicts in Tasmania, is to succeed A. E. Kennedy, Esq., in Western Australia. We perceive by an advertisement that an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Taranaki Steel Company is to be held on the 27th inst., at the offices of the compaty, Delahay-street, Wetminster, for the purpose of taking into consideration the following resolution, to be proposed by Mr. Studer;— ‘ That the promoters of this company shall receive the shares they severally subscribed for in the Articles of Association of the said company as fail paid up shares, in lieu of the sum they are entitled to receive under the said Articles of Association for their services in the promotion of the company, and for their cost, charges, and expenses incurred therein.’ The return of the Great Eastern to Cork, disabled and in the most nielencholy plight, is one of those disasters against which no foresight could guard, for all steamers and sailing ships, however well found, are liable to calamities of this kind; but speculation generalises on such occasions, and is now asserted that some ships are “lucky” and others “unlucky;” that one of the latter kind is to be avoided by all who know their own interest; and that the Royal Charter and the Great Eastern were “unlucky” before the commencement of their career—before they even made the acquaintance of salt water, and one of them was unlucky to the time of her final disappearance. It is useless to argue with a popular superstition of this nature. Nothing can put it down but a long course of uninterrupted prosperity, and this we hope the Great Eastern has still before her. The same remark was made about the Great Britain after her unhappy disaster in Dundrum Bay; but from that time to the present that vessel has been in every sense successful, and the old prejudice has now died out. Even the Royal Charter made a succession of highly favourable trip* between the mishap that attended the first effort to launch her and her last appearance of the coast of North Wales. Neverthless, it must have been a terrific storm which could inflict on the Great Eastern the loss of her paddle wheels, steering gear, and the other disasters that compelled her to put back, just as the s terra which destroyed the Royal Charter was the most sever# that had occurred for a long series of years. The mishap will interfere seriously with the career of proserity on which the Great Eastern was just entering, and which promised the most encouraging pecuniary rsSßltfl ts all scncomed. ”