NEW SOUTH WALES.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 88, 15 August 1846, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

'Theanterior.districts of New South Wales are ;merally parched by the long continued drought, rrovjsions ofovery kind are rapidly rising in price, otr George Gipps took his final leave of the colony, ■on Saturday, the Uth July, His departure was the occasion of a demonstration of public feeling of a somewhat contradictory and equivocal character. An attempt on the part of some of the members of the City Council to get up a valedictory address, was defeated by a counter resolution for an immeQJate : ndjournruent, which was carried by an overwhelming majority. On the other hand, a sum of money, amounting on the Bih July* to £1,019, had been subscribed for the purpose of purchasing a BU y v' c testimoni a' of the. respect and esteem which the subscribers entertained .towards the reWing Governor. Judgine;, however, from the bias, we are inclined to think that Sir j*eorge s departure is more the subject of congratulation than regret. Sir Maurice O'Connell took the oaths as Actinggovernor of the territory, on the 13th July.

n JL P l, f m,mW(l in«tton had brdken out" among the convicts at Norfolk Island, but w aß quelled without bloodshed, by the energetic pro. I'Oeedinga of Major Harrold. enßr 6ew pro. I A bill.'forimposing « duty of :I5 per cent, upon w!i pr ? du^ e and manufactures of New -South vvaies, -had passedfthe Legist itive Council of 'Van D.emen s Land. The prices of w heat At Laun««s. tm -op to : lhe|Bth July,-were quoted at,fie. to' Deraonnik ?' ." F,m *«>™ £M to £16' per 2000 lbs. A r.se in the price of wheat was expected, but the stock is declared, to be large both «n store<and in stack. * ; n M u M /x r T ett h **' heea enterlainfaj Uh«-goo-d People of New South Wales, by * somewhat' utopean project for constituting Heke a eort of' of the Maortes. Sir George , t»ipps was advised to send for the aspiring rebel, together with the Rev. Mr.Burraws, to it as his nterpreterin Sydney, where he was to be well reated buu instructed, and then sent -backf to play the d lp lornatist oa-behalf df the British Government. ih ls proposition was backed by the magnanimoß.offerofMr.Mer««to place himself in the hands of the natives, a* hostage for Heke's safe return. We do not question' Mr. Merrett's" .motives, but.his scheme i« in many respects absurd" and impracticable. * Mr. Agnew, formerly Strident df St. 'John's College Brhop'g Auckland, has been ordained Deacon>by the'iJi.hop of Australia.