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[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
If I understand correctly:
You have a model New
You have a model News
You have a simple controller
You want to pass whatever value comes from New to News, to get the associated information.

Based on these assumption this is how I would implement it in pseudocode:

Code:

// model new
class New_model extends Model {

  private $id;

  function New()
  {
    parent::Model();
  }
  public function getNew() { return $this->id; }
  // you will probably make setNew private, but for this example let's just make it public
  // so we can set it directly from the controller.
  public function setNew($id) { $this->id = $id }
}

//model news

class News extends Model {

  function News()
  {
    parent::Model();
  }

  // This would be getLastNews()
  // Since we are already in the scope of news, getLast() should be sufficient.
  public function getLast($id, $order='DESC', $limit='10')
  {
    $this->db->where('id',$id);
    $this->db->order_by('Date', $order);
    $this->db->limit($limit);
    $query = $this->db->get('sometablename');
    // just basic check if we get some results;
    if ($query->num_rows() > 0)
    {
      return $query->result(); // returns the resultset as an object
      return $query->result_array();  // returns the resultset as an array
    }
    else
    {
      // no results found, you can do w/e you want to handle this
      // usually you just return FALSE and deal with it in the Controller where
      // your business logic is.
      return FALSE;
    }
  }
}

// controller

class Example extends Controller {

  function Example()
  {
    parent::Controller();
  }

  function index()
  {
    $this->load->model('new');
    $this->load->model('news');
  
    // set some value
    $this->new->setNew('1');
    // retrieve some value
    $id = $this->new->getNew();
    // pass the value to another model
    $data = $this->news->getLast($id);
    // let's see what we got
    var_dump($data);
  }
}

Hope this helps. A small note: the CI coding style advices against using camelcase: userguide