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Colonial Minister, and that any present or future sug- 
gestions for the benefit of the " Southern district" should 
" receive due consideration." 
He concluded by an intricate statement, that " he 
" had reason to hope, when the arrangements of 
" Government were fully complete, that many of the 
" inconveniences of which they complained would be 
" found susceptible of easy adjustment, and that he 
" would not allow himself to believe that he should be 
" denied the satisfaction of soon meeting the settlers at 
" Port Nicholson on terms of mutual confidence and 
" support." This was certainly carrying the language 
of diplomacy, if not to the terseness, at least to the 
ambiguity of a Delphic oracle. 
The first number of a newspaper published at Auck- 
land, and also the first number of the New Zealand 
Government Gazette, published there by authority, were 
received by this opportunity. The independent paper, 
called the Auckland Herald, made a very respectable 
appearance, and promised to take a good stand among 
the press of the South Seas. 
The principal Government doings had been a fresh 
arrangement of the Clendon job, by which the vendor 
of " Hobson's Folly" was to receive a part of his pay- 
ment in 10,000 acres of land, to be chosen according 
to his own taste, in the immediate vicinity of the town 
of Auckland. A considerable balance was also to be 
paid him in cash. 
The following officers had been gazetted : — Edward, 
a brother of Lieutenant Shortland, as Private Secretary ; 
Colonel Godfrey and Captain Richmond, as Commis- 
sioners of Land Claims ; a Mr. Coates, as Sheriff; 
David Rough, who married the Governor's governess, 
as Harbour - master of Auckland ; and Robert A. 
Fitzgerald, as Registrar of the Supreme Court and 
