SYDNEY EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 53, 19 February 1842, Page 3

SYDNEY EXTRACTS.

The Governor. — A report was in circulation yesterday that the Governor had resigned, and intended to sail for England by an early ship : there is no truth in this statement. We understand that his Excellency is of opinion that despatches written shortly after the one which excited the alarm of Lord John Russell will have removed the unfavourable, and very unjust opinion which his Lordship and Sir Robert Peel expressed respecting his Excellency’s conduct. Passage to England. —lt will be ,geen from our advertising columns that the Earl Durham is again laid on for Valparaiso, via New Zealand. This vessel sailed from hence in May last with upwards of forty passengers, many of whom were proceeding to England via Panama. We are surprised that so few have chosen this route, which is not only interesting and comparatively cheap, but affords an opportunity of visiting the new Colony of New Zealand, Valparaiso, the capital of Chili, and most of the West Indian islands. Mr. Hickey, an extensive stockholder in New England, sailed in the Earl Durham last year on his way to Europe, and took his passage by the steamer at Panama ; the description given of his voyage up to that date is so full of interest, and the manner in which he writes of Captain Cabel is so complimentary chat we have much pleasure in recommending our friends going to England lo'try the Panama route, which, now that the West Indian steamers are laid on, will be as quick, and much more interesting than the ordinary Cape Horn passage. —Sydney Herald, The new road from New England, Beardy Plains, &c.. to the Clarence River, is now completed, and the first dray with wool arrived by that route at Bentley’s store, on Thursday last. A distressing accident happened to the passengers by the Windsor coach on Wednesday night last, when within about twelve miles of that town; one of the wheels got into a deep rut, and the coach was upset. Captain James and a female passenger lxad their collar bones broken; Mr. Phi lips, of George street, was severely injured ; Mr. Ford’s ankle was violently sprained ; and we are sorry to add that Colonel Wiison’s right thigh was fractured. It is a great shame that the public roads of the colony are allowed to remain in such a dangerous state; there is scarcely one throughout the whole cokny fit to travel along. We regret to say, that His Honor the Chief Justice, from the delicate state of his health, has been obliged to apply for leave bf absence fora week or two, and has gone into the interior to spend the week, in order to try what effect tranquility and change of air will have upon him. The business of the criminal sessions, which commenced yesterday, will therefore devolve entirely upon their Honors Mr. Justice Burton and Mr. Justice Stephen. The first show of the Floral Society for the present vear, has been fixed to take place on the 23rd Df February. An inquest was held on Friday, at Le Burn’s, Parramatta-street, on the body of Thomas George, who died in the Benevolent Asylum, on the preceding day. Dr. Cuthill having certified that death was caused principally by dysentery, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. There are a number of copper half-crowns now in circulation. On Friday afternoon, a fire originated in the chimney of a house in Prince-street, and communicated to the shingles on the roof, which soon began to cause some alarm in the neighbourhood, Several men ineffectually tried to extinguish it, but none of them appeared able or willing to ascend to the top of tlie roof; this being observed by a woman who was passing at the time with two buckets full of water, she at once leaped upon the paling, and got upon the verandah, and thence on the roof of the house, where a pail of water was handed to her; she walked rapidly up the sloping roof, and along the saddle-boards of the house to where the fire was, and successfully extinguished it. This courageous act was much applauded by the tenant of the house, but he ought certainly to bestow upon the female something more substantial than mere applause. On Friday evening, as Mr. Richard Crampton was racing on the Parramatta-road, he was thrown from his horse and seriously injured about the face, and the point of his tongue was cut off by the jerk of the fall. On Thursday evening, between eight and ten o’clock, the lodgings of Mr. Meredith, formerly of the theatre, were entered, and a quantity of wearing apparel and a box containing some family papers were carried away. The box and papers were afterwards found in an adjoining empty house. The thieves appear to have been disturbed, as they left a box of lucifer matches behind them.

It has been agreed upon that there shall be a public dinner at the Royal Hotel on the 26th instant, in commemoration of the foundation of the colony.