THE "Wellington Independent." Wednesday, October 3, 1849.

Wellington Independent, Volume V, Issue 415, 3 October 1849, Page 2

THE "Wellington Independent." Wednesday, October 3, 1849.

The Government brig Victoria, Capt. Burgess, arrived in port on Sunday from Auckland via Tamnaki. By tins opportunity wo have received Aucklaud Intelligence to the 14th September. Governor Grey's Nominee Council closed its sittings onthe 25th August. The most important event at the North is the sending home a Petition, said to he signed by three-fourths of the male adults, calling upon her Majesty's Ministers to remove Sir George Grey from tho Governance of these Islands.' At the Public Meeting,held at Auckland to consider and adopt the Petition, a largo majority of the settlers were presentand they unanimously, without a single dissentient voice, called for Sir George's recall on the ground " of hh gross breach of faith, and want of veracity." The brig Richard Dart, from England the (ith of April, with a Company of Sappers and Miners on board, bound to Auckland, had not arrived up to the sailing of the Victoria.

Sir George Grey had sailed in the Fly for the Sunday Islands, and Bishop Selwin was expected at Auckland from the Isle of Pines and Fecjccs. California, with its gold dust, crime and misery, is still the exciting topic at Auckland. We sincerely regret that colonists should leave ±<v\v Zealand on any such wild-goose chase. Will ail the chance of obtaining gold compensate its mad votaries for the incessant toil, labour, and sickness which are more or less the lot of all gold seekers ? for the daily risk of heing murdered by savage Indians or still more savage white men ? And allowing that the seeker secures as much of the precious dust as he desires—he finds that his store diminishes as rapidly as it was accumulated and that he is but little, if any, better off in the end than he would have been in any other country.