SYDNEY EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 25, 3 October 1840, Page 3

SYDNEY EXTRACTS.

Legislative Consistency. — It is currently reported that a certain honorable M.C., when asked his reason for voting against a certain measure some few days since, replied that he had done so because his honorable friend who brought it forward had adopted the same course of proceeding towards a motion of his on the previous day. — Australasian Chronicle. Refractory Seamen. — The seamen belonging to the barque Surry were on Monday brought before Captain Innes, charged .by the master of that vessel with having refused to assist in getting her under way, when ready for sea. On being called upon for their defence, one of the men, who appeared spokesman for his companions, stated that the captain had told them to "go toll — ;" upon which Captain Innes remarked that although Captain Sinclair had no authority to send them on so long a journey, yet he was .fully justified in ordering them to do the duty, for the performance of which they were paid. They were accordingly sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment and hard labour in Carters' .Barracks. — Ibid. Lord Normanby, in his proclamation for the apprehension of the murderers of Shadrach Lewis, Pembrokeshire, holds out the promise of a free pardon "to any accomplice, except .the actual murderer!" It is not for nothing that his lordship has breathed the air of the Emerald Isle. — Ib,id. An Honest J. P. — The Cornwall Chronicle informs us that a few months since some justice of the peace in that neighbourhood ordered his servants to throw many tons of water into a quantity of hay which he was pressing, and had sold to a leading merchant for shipment to Sydney. The writer gives it as the opinion of several gentlemen, that if the hay had been put into the hold of a ship and closed down, the inevitable result would have been, that that the ship would have been burnt, and that, perhaps in a situation the most dreadful to contemplate, namely, at sea. — Ibid. Desiderata for the Advancement of Australia. — There are two branches of manufacture which it would be highly desirable as well as profitable to establish in these colonies, and to which we would draw the attention of our readers in the mother country; namely, a type foundry, and a paper manufactory. Considering that there are nearly thirty newspapers established in these colonies, many of them published thrice a week, and one, we may say two, daily, and every likelihood that as many more will be started in a short period — while there is not so much as one agent for the supply of printing materials ; and two hundred per cent, is somtimes asked for an article in urgent demand ; we conceive that no further argument is necessary to show how excellent an opening these colonies present for a moderate establishment of each of the above branches. We would gladly at this moment lay out £2000 on the improvement of our office, if we could do so without a sacrifice, or without waiting twelve months for a return from England. — Ibid. — [We fully agree with our Sydney contemporary, and that the hint he has given will not be Nst sight of in the mother country. — Ed.

The Estimates for 1841. — We have glanced over the estimates for the ensuing year, and, so far as we have been enabled to judge of them with reference to the state of things existing in the colony, we cannot help saying that a strict regard to economy seems to be their chief feature. Whatever may be said of his Excellency's conduct and abilities in other respects, all, we believe, will admit that his skill as a financier, and his solicitude for retrenchment, are indisputable, j Ibid. New Zealand. — The arrivals' of yesterday (August 24) have brought us letters and papers from Kororarika to a late date. Nothing of moment appears to have occurred. The French ship "L'Aube," Captain Lavaud, brought two missionories for Bishop Pompallier. The "Aube" sailed in the end of July for the Middle Island; of which, according ti the report prevailing at Kororarika, she was to take possession. It was also rumoured at the Bay of Islands, we know not upon what, if any authority, that the British government bad relinquished its claim to that Island in favour of the French. The arrival of two French vessels with emigrants, and provisions for two years, was daily expected. Considerable dissatisfaction, and some misunderstandings, were said to exist among the settlers at Port Nicholson ; several of whom had left for the Bay of Islands. Governor Hobson is very popular, and all his measures had given satisfaction — excepting his choice of the town of Russell as the seat ot government, which is not generally considered so eligible as Kororarika. His Excellency treats Bishop Pompallier with great politeness and attention; and, indeed, the good bishop is a general favourite. His exertions among the aboriginal natives have been crowned with almost unexampled success. — Ibid. — [Some wag must have been intruding himself upon the credulity of our contemporary, or he never would have given the semblance of credit to the statement that " considerable dissatisfaction, and some misunderstanding's " existed j here.— Ed. N.Z.G.]