Nelson.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1287, 2 December 1857, Page 3

Nelson.

[From the Nelson Examiner, Nov. 21.] We understand, from private sources of information, that the nomination of the Rev. Mr. Hob ho use as Bishop of this Province lias been concurred in and fully accepted bv the authorities at home. As in the case of the Canterbury bishopric, a formal resignation of so ranch of Dr. Sclwyn’s diocese as is intended to consi itute the new see will be requisite ; and we believe there is some idea of forming New Zealand into a separate ecclesiastical province with its own Archbishop, corresponding directly with the mother church, and independent of Australia. On receiving news of our present Bishop’s assent to these arrangements and the corresponding changes they involve, which assent had not reached England at the date of cur letters. Mr. Hobhousc would be appointed, and leave as soon after Easter as possible for his new sphere of duty. He is a Fellow of Metton College, Oxford, and Minister of St. Peter’s parish in that citv. lie is spoken of as a man of very gentle and unaffected manners, and as loved, respected, and even venerated by all who know him. The change to him will be great: from the old time-honoured University, where he would be almost daily in contact with the elite of English society—Britain’s nobles, orators, and statesmen ; her most distinguished in learning, literature, art, science, and action; which, losing Wellington, has Derby for her head, and Bussell, Palmerston, Gladstone, DTuinli, with Buckland, Sedgwick, Bunsen, Thackeray, Macaulay, for her inembers —to arrive at our little settlement, with, as compared with the great world he leaves, its infinitesimally small politics and affairs. But, as his chief concern will be that in which all men are equally interested, high and low, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, he will even here find ample room for his best exertions and his heartiest sympathies ; and although the members of the Church of England alone will look up to him as their head, the coming of every goal man amongst us with large opportunities for usefulness must be matter or rejoicing to all.