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the colonization of the country; and the Company 
yielded to the Government all its claims in right of. 
purchases from the natives. I shall not inflict upon 
the reader the minor provisions of this document, as 
none of them qualified these main conditions in any 
important particular. The Company were incorporated 
by Royal Charter, required by the Government to 
double their capital, and recognized as a valuable in- 
strument for the colonization of the country. 
Another very satisfactory piece of news was the cer- 
tainty that a Bishop of New Zealand would soon be 
appointed. Private letters described that the influence 
of the powerful body of men composing the New Zea- 
land Church Society had overruled the scarcely con- 
cealed opposition to this measure of Mr. Dandeson 
Coates, the lay Secretary of the Church Missionary 
Society, and of Mr. Stephen, one of the permanent 
Under-Secretaries of the Colonial Oflice. It was very 
naturally concluded that, even if our Governor should 
persist in fixing his desert capital at a distance from the 
centre of population and of the islands, the future 
Bishop at least could not fail to recognize Wellington 
as the place most fit for his location, both by the num- 
ber and by the character of its inhabitants. 
The birth of the Princess Royal, now also made 
known in this country, afforded an opportunity of ad- 
dressing her Majesty. A meeting was therefore held, 
and a loyal address adopted, which did not fail to 
thank her Majesty for the recent act of justice done to 
the colony by the advice of her Ministers, or to pray 
that the representative of the Queen might be in- 
structed to take up his abode among a community 
which had such claims to his care and attention. 
While public dinners and rejoicings marked the wel- 
come with which the separation of the colony from 
