CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 58, 26 June 1852, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

(From the Lyttelton Times.) The long expected " Stag" has arrived at last, and the news which it has brought us, relating to the affairs of the settlement, is in the highest degree satisfactory. Both from private letters, and from information which has been communicated to us here, we are enabled to state that the design of sending out Mr. Fox as Agent of the Association has been abandoned. Our friends at Wellington will rejoice with us at this intelligence. The Association has been saved from the consequences of a false step, ami Mr. Fox will remain in England, where his services to the cause of New Zealand will be immeasurably more beneficial to the colony at large, than if he were placed in a false position in this settlement as the Agent of a body with whose principles he could not cordially agree, and as the representative of a policy which he could not consistently carry out. The Association, adopting a generous and enlightened policy, have requested Mr. Godley not to resign the post which he has hitherto filled with so much satisfaction to the colonists, and have accompanied that request by such measures as will secure to the colony a continuance of Mr. Godley's services for some time to come.

With respect to the proceedings of the Association in England, we understand that although no revival had taken place in the sales of land, there is a prospect of a considerable emigration to this Settlement in the cqj^se of the ensuing spring and summer, comprising several families- of wealth and respectability. The general interest in the progress of the Settlement appears to be on the increase, and the reports from all quarters are decidedly more favourable than those which have been received for several months.