ORIGINAL POETRY.

:- ' FAREWELL T() ENGLAND./ t . Farewell, to happy England ! . *, , For other lands I roam,' /'• To settle down in Alberfland, ■'~ Ji'- Arid find a distant home. It is not that I love thee less I seek a distant shore- For oh! may Heaven doubly bless . . The land I'J 1 sec no more ! , ' ' • 'Tis not that I'm in want of friends, 1 ■ ■ Nor yet for gold galore, Neither for any selfish ends I seek another shore. ' 'Tis that my children may not want When I can work no more; And that old age may end'in peace, I seek another shore. X -

Public Meetings.

''''•Tu^e;.9th>a;.;ntimerously-attended-meeting1 was -held near the fore rigging, to take into consider ation the.best means of making better arrange c'raents with regard to the cooking and serving out of the food.-to the passengers. After discuss ing the matter;,to the;'satisfaction of;all, the, subject of cleaning was brought forward.' The President, Mr v Brame, in the course of his remarks, on the'subject, said he was very sorry to see that one.or two 'of . the young men had raised an objection to this, important work—a •\york in which'he [the President] had thought $icy would all take an active part. ; |One or two other matters jwere.brought forward, such as bathing, concerts, and other amusements, which, , after being fully.disc.ussed, with a,few words of "" counsel and Encouragement from the President, brought the' meeting, to a c105e.>.,_;.,-. Asecoridrneeting was held on Thursday after. , noon, for the purpose of enabling the President' and captains of messes to* confer together with a-view of carrying out the resolutions ofiMonday. We may state that as the result of these meetings Messrs.* Hook and Edwards are acting on behalf of the 'tween deck passengers, to convey to the President [and through him to the > authorities of the ship, when it may.be necessary] any representations which such passengers may wish to make for the,pro"lnotion of their convenience and comiort There^arG now captains tof - messes, and since; Monday's meeting Mr. Twelve trees has been appointed first chief captain, his duty being.to watch the delivery of the 'dinnera to the cook, and their redelivcry, when cooked, to the captains; and also to summon' the cap' tains m fives when.-the ttiifdmate begins'to give oiit the weekly, rations, at 12 a.m..>every Friday. A chief captain of the deck cleaners'is also now appointed to superintend this very important '33usine3~s. Mr. Parsons is the chief captain now

l , . lj . . . ■' -y V m oifice-.: It may lie-stated, too, as a farther result of these meetings, that the coffee roasting, which has sadly 'interfered, with" the dailybaking operations, is to be performed at four a.m., every Friday, and our fiiond Mr. Baker lias . kindly consented to assist Sambo, the cook, in\ the work. ■> - \ ' i ■■ - — :•==:*

LIST OF PASSENGERS ON BOARD THE MATILDA WATTENBACH.

Royalty is avcll represented by six Edgars, eight Edwarda, and one James ; and there are four Kings, who have;but one Cro\vn, with a , Dent,^and a single Brown amongst them. There ~-j 1 are fop Fishers, with a solitary Pike ; one Fow-, i , ler with a Bird,live Cocks,three Partridges with ' three Lodges, and four Badcocks. There is a Bull with a Hobbey, six Boots, a Stott, with four ( ~Bells, aud a Dobell; a Sheaf but no stray/, and i a Cramp with one "Home, guarded by a Shep- i person, who has for pasture tw v o "Warrens,1 three ' Urecns, five Holmes, a Schofield, a Butterfield^ two Dukinfields; seven Oldfields, in all- three Goodacres and Twelvetrees, with a Wood and an,, Underwood, together with three Brooks, four (i * Blackbnrns, a "Wells and two Cran wells. Fur- ther there is a North, six Wests* 'and three ■ Westerns. Literature has four Johnsons, three j Walkers, four Byrons, five Coopers, one Collins^ I a Hunt, and three Elliotts. Art and Science has !■ two Stcphensons and two Newtons. The Pro- M essions and Trades comprise three' Parsons, two Piummer,s, seven Smiths, a Carter, a Carpenter, two Masons,- a Wright, two Cooks', a Cpoksey, six Bakers, two Masons and twojTaylors,with eight ± Hooks. ' < ' And, in conclusion, there is a Parkinson-,,two Hansons, four Nicholsons, two/Tomlinsons, three WatkinsoßS,two "Wilcocksons, seveajßteventohs, one Broughton, fiv re Bucktons^and sd- Newman, - three Simmonses and a Symmonds, three Sisams, two Pardons, two Constants, 'ty/c* Farrands, t | one Luckhurst, two Ritsh^v-6rthg, r one Mpijjhan, '" an Armsly, an ArmitaVe^'.iftp five' Joneses, and seven Davises', nineteen Llttles/onc Catlin, oneGurney,'t)neßxirdett, three Calverts, ' ] eight Mouldens, one Yates, one Redfern,- eleven Marcrofts, ten Beecrofts, seven Cliffs, orfo Hayes, 1 one Gould, two Brames, seven Goochcs, two J Hopkirises, seVen'Cockayncs,, one''Higbid, four j Pricters, one Keighley, five Beaneys, three Buss- bys, five Ingers, oneHindloy,two'Braithwaites, fi eight Wharfes,'three Jeromes, four Crawfords, H and a Cousin. • > t • _ fl j Any Editor who may make extracts from this 1 sheet, will confer a favor on the' Settlement, by *" M forwarding a copy to the printer, at Albertland, J Auckland, New Zealand. ' I

Printed by Samuel Johnson,'on board'the'"Ma- 1 I tilda Wattenbach," in 35:30 .N l a t.-& 13:35 W.. fl j long-, June 14. 1862. . ' ■ ■ *' 1

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