NEW SOUTH WALES.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 88, 15 August 1846, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

"Thednterior.dietricts of New South Wales are literally parched by the long continued drought, rrovisions ofcevery kind are rapidly rising io price, otr George Gipps teok 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. Aji 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 immeoiatendjournruent, : which was carried by an overw.helming majority. On the other hand, a sum of money, amounting on the Bch July* to £1,019, had been subscribed for the purpose of purchasing a BU y v testtmoni al of the, respect and esteem which the subscribers entertained .towards the rewing Governor. Judging, however, from the bias, we are inclined to think that Sir worge c 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 r i' f ,nrabnril matlon had broken out' among the convicts at Norfolk Island, hut was quelled without bloodshed, by the energetic pro. ■ceedings of Major Harrold. > A biU,.for>imposing* duty of !I5 per cent, npon w!i pr ? dl f :e and manufactures of New -South waiee, had passedrthe Legisl .tive Council of 'Van D.emen 8 Land. The prices of wheat at Lanncee. tm July, were quoted at ,6a. to' oerOOnniK b f'- ; £13 to £16' Sn«» ? ? S * t* r ' Be * n the P rice of wheat was expected, but the stock is declared, to he large both in stoieand in stack. * ; Mr. Merrett haefeeea entertaining Ulre good people of New South Wales, by ,a somewhat' utopean project for oonnituting Heke a aort of PaCficator-General of the Maories. Sir George , was advised to send for the aspiring rebel, together with fche Rev. Mr.-Burrows, to Jet as his interpreteHn Sydney, -where he was to be well reated aua instructed, and then sent -back . to play the diplomatist on-behalf df the British Government. lhis proposition was backed by the magnammous offer of Mr. Merrett 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 Bi-hop'i Auckland, has been ordained Deacon.by the'iJi.hop of Australia.