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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 16, 13 October 1841, Page 2

Since "our last publication, Hobart Town Journals to the 21st ult. have come to hand. The latest London dates, received there, were* to the 20th May; but they contain items of interesin"- intelligence which have not yet appeared in our columns ; and from these papers we glean the English and New South Wales news in bur present number. The Van Diemen's Land Legislative Council was in Session, and Sir John Franklin had addressed to them a minute of instructions to form a Committee on the subject of the immigration of free labourers. We quote a few lines of the address: — " It is therefore with the utmost confidence in your cordial co-operation that I now request you to give me that assistance which your local experience so well qualifies you to render, in arriving at such conclusions as may fee. of use to guide those entrusted with the Executive arrangements in discharging their with advantage." » We notice also a Proclamation of Sir John's, headed " Postage on Newspapers," to the effect, that from the 30th September, he orders and proclaims that all Newspapers, whether published in the island, arriving from, or being sent bevond seas, shall be received, despatched, and delivered by the several Postmasters in the island, free of all postage or charge whatever.