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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 44, 19 January 1842, Page 2

Regatta. —We have much pleasure in being enabled to inform our readers that His Excellency the Governor has become patron of a Regatta which is to come off on the 17th March (St, Patrick’s Day), and we have no doubt there will be good sport on the occasion, as Mr. Davis, shipwright, has received several orders to build boats of various descriptions. Presbyterian Church. —On Monday evening last, a highly respectable meeting took place, at the School House, To take into consideration the best means for erecting a Church, and procuring a Clergyman from home, A number of resolutions were proposed and passed (which will be found in our advertising columns;, and a subscription entered into, when the sum of £l7O, was collected. We understand that the Governor lias signified his intention of granting a suitable site on which to erect the Church.

Notice Present bearings of the Black Buoy off Point Gellibrand—Light-house, N.W. •§ W,; Station Peak, W. by S. \ S.; Harbour Master’s House, N. W. westerly ; Liardet’s House, (beach) N.N E. The Buoy now lies on the extreme edge of the reef, in a quarter less five fathoms.—Harbour Marter’s Office, Dec. 6, 1841. Noble Bequest. —The entire property of the late Mr. Moore, of Liverpool, N. 8. Wales, amounting to above £2U,000, has been bequeathed for the promotion of education and advancement of religion in the colony, in connection with the Church of England. The building and endowing of a college is the principal object; and the Lord Bishop of Australia is one of the trustees appointed bythe will to see the truly Christian designs of the testator carried into effect. New Episcopalian School House. —The Lord Bishop of Australia has received a communication from the “Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge” in London, intimating that a liberal pecuniary grant would be issued from the funds to assist in the erection of a school in Melbourne, in connection with the Episcopalian ChurchesTn our town.