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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 51, 12 February 1842, Page 3

Copy of a Despatch from Lord John Russell to Governor Hobson. Downing-street, 14th April, 1841. Sir, I transmit to you herewith, a copy of a despatch which I have received from the Governor of New South Wales, with reference to the settlement of claims to land in New Zealand, and particularly of those claims on the part of persons connected with the New Zealand Company, The points raised in this despatch from Sir George Gipps have been, in a great degree anticipated by the instructions which I have already conveyed to you ou this subject. The arrangement here, reported to have been made by the local government with the settlers, is the exact reverse of that made by Her Majesty’s Government with the Company. Her Majesty’s Government have studiously declined to recognise the rights of the settlers, and have acknowledged those of the Company only. Sir George Gipps adopted the principle of acknowledging the claim of the individual settler, leaving to the Government here the task of looking to the state of the account between the settler and the Company. My own opinion is, that Her Majesty’s Government had adopted the most beneficial arrangement, which, at any rate, is now irrevocable. «**#«**»** I have, &c. (Signed) J. RUSSELL.

We have been requested to insert the following from the Hobart Town Advertiser of the 7th ult. It appears to have been penned in anticipation of our wants.—Ed. WANTED. A person duly qualified to fill the seat in the irresponsible Legislature which will soon be vacant. A preference will be given to an individual who has not signed the address to the Queen, stating that the members cannot Julfil the duties of such office, either to their own satisfaction, or that of the community. Immediate application is to be made to the “ men wot drives the Sovereign,” or otherwise the Skipper will take the helm himself, and masthead the turbulent and refractory. P. S.—None of the clique need apply, as they are in dis-favour at present. January 3d, 1842. Sunday ScHooL.-=-We have much pleasure in announcing that a Sunday School, in connection with the Church of England and the Kirk of Scotland, will be commenced to-morrow, in the Raupo Schoolhouse, which His Excellency kindly lends for the purpose.—The hours of attendance, we learn, will be for the present, from 4 to 6—and the undertaking will be conducted under the united superinterdance of the Rev. J. F. Churton and several active members of either Church. The school will be open to all, and we trust the attendance of children will be such as to encourage the promoters of the undertaking to enlarge their arrangements, and also to shew that the parents are duly sensible of the value of the bene 7 fits which are intended thereby towards, their children. Registrar. —William Macpherson, Esq., who has been recenly appointed to the office ot Registrar of the Supreme Court, in the place of Mr. J. E. Manning, appeared before'the Supreme Court yesterday, and after his commission had been read, was sworn in in the usual manner, to perform the duties of that office. —Sydney Herald.