NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 619, 9 July 1851, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY.

|A general meeting of the members of the |New Zealand Society was held on Wednesday evening last, 2nd July, in the hall of Ithe Athenaeum and Mechanics’ Institute, at iwhich upwards of fifty members were present. • Mr. Raymond having been voted into Ithe chair, the acting Secretary of the committee for the foundation of the Society, gead to the meeting the following abstract [of its objects | 1. The development of the physical character of the New Zealand Group, its natural history, resources, and capabilities. 1 . COl ‘ ee '- ion ana preservation of materials illustrative of the history of its native |inhabitants, their language, customs, noetrv. land traditions. | 3. The publication of such papers on these |and other subjects as may be deemed by |the Council of sufficient importance. I 4. The formation of a library of standard gWks.and of a museum in illustration of the above subjects. I 5. The establishment in the sister settlements of corresponding Societies in farther- | ance of the above objects. | p le following resolutions were then put |anu carried unanimously:— I, ■^"°P ose< l by Mr. Mantell and seconded ! b .v Dr. Monteith, InJ! lat His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.8., loftn ern °^ ln 'P” be requested to accept the I c 01 rresiaent of this Society. I Proposed by Captain Rhodes and seconded by Mr. Roberts, levip^t^' B Excellency Lieutenant-Governor 'luBtipom eUtenant ‘ Colonel M‘Clevcrty, Mr. c,ldcacon Hadfield - be ose d by Mr. J. H. Wallace and so. by Mr. J. M. Taylor, I'Ereasmer. 1113111 I ‘ llotlesbe appointed Hon orary r ’ to^es an d seconded by ® rpi 9 |ftis Society anteb be elected a Member of |by Mr >0 T e< T>?^r^ r ’ R°berts and seconded | Se cretary? r ' Mantell be appointed Honorary

Proposed by Mr. Roberts and seconded by Mr. Moore, That the first Council be elected for six months, Proposed by Mr. Mantell and seconded by Dr. Monteith, That the following be the Members of the first Council— Mr. Fitzherbert Mr. Woodward Dr. Featherston ~ W. W. Taylor Mr. R. Hart ~ Raymond „ Roberts ~ Lyon. Proposed by Mr. Hart and seconded by Mr. Mantell, That W. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S., (now absent from the colony) be elected an Honorary Member of this Society. Thanks to the Chairman were then proposed by Mr. Fitzherbert and carried by acclamation. THE TINAKORI PILGRIMAGE. “ Horses thus, let jockeys judge else Switches better guide than cudgels’ Bastings heavy, dry, obtuse, Only dulness can produce; While a little gentle jerking Sets the spirits all a-working.”— Swift. In the Council E— got up, and made a long speech About freedom, and so forth, then sat on his breech. Howfolks differ in practice from what they oft preach! Which nobody can deny. That the Faction were pleas’d, you may easily guess, When Fiddlestone call’d in his holiday dress On E—, and propos’d they should bring an address. Which nobody can deny. At the very idea E— shook in his shoes, And said, “ My dear friend, it’s no manner of use, If you bring an address, I shall be * a gone goose/ Which nobody can deny. Then Fiddlestone storm’d, and declar’d it was hard That such eminent merit should have no reward: V e re anxious,” he said, “you should prove our court card.” Which nobody can deny. Leaving E , he to Fagin disconsolate goes, To Fagin to whom he unburthens his woes, — Who, if not a long head, has at least a long nose. Which nobody can deny, xhey took counsel together, and (at their old games) Said the Faction, including respectable “ Jeames” And the Tag-rag, should call, and at E—’s leave ’ their names. Which nobody can deny. They tried very hard—but in vain—to get Scouse To call; for he knew (he has plenty of nous) The Faction are not worth three skips of—a mouse. 1 Which nobody can deny. After all their manoeuvres, they found it no good “ To holla before they were out of the wood For the end was—they only got stuck in the mud. Which nobody can deny,

We have received a letter from Mr. Godley, the Agent of the Canterbury Association, in which, referring to a paragraph in the Spectator of the 18th June, he contradicts in precise terms the report “of an attempt cn the part of the Canterbury Association to get Nelson included in" their settlement, and to extend their regulations respecting the sale of land to Nelson.” The paragraph alluded to was merely intended to refer to the question in general terms, a report of what actually did take place in Council appearing in the following number of the Spectator (June 21), in which it is stated (in the report of Sir George Grey’s speech) “an attempt was being made to include part of the Nelson district in the Canterbury Settlement.” As the paragraph (of 18th June) referred to by Mr. Godley appears to have caused him to fall into some misconception on the subject, we may inform him that it is not supposed an attempt is being made to get the town of Nelson, the sold and settled lands of Nelson, &c., included in the Canterbury block, but to extend the Canterbury block northwards so as to include those unsold pasture lands which form the extreme southern portion of the Nelson settlement. The report of the proceedings in Council in the Spectators of a subsequent date to June 18th will make this appear still more clearly, but as Mr. Godley appears desirous of preventing any misunderstanding, we may add we shall be happy to publish, for the information of the public any documentary information which may be in his possession on the subject of any proposal to unite any part of the Nelson settlement to the Canterbury block, or any other information which he may be able to afford, relative to this subject.