WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 1 May 1852, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

Wellington papers up to the2lst instant have come to hand by the " Fisherman." She also brought a few Auckland papers. The latter contain no news of any interest. The most important news which attracts our attention in the Wellington papers, is a report, which our readers will find on the last page printed in full from the New Zealand Spectator, of a meeting of the members of the Church of England. It will be seen that Archdeacon Hatfield goes even further than we ventured to do in our article last week, laying down the opinion broadly, that the English Ecclesiastical Law is not applicable to New Zealand, and that it is competent to the Local Government to grant whatever powers are necessary to enable the Church in this colony to manage its own internal affairs ; and Sir Grey's statement is very important li that the view'generally taken in the other settlements was that expressed by the Archdeacon." Cautious as his Excellency's expressions necessarily were, in a public meeting, it is very valuable to learn that his Excellency " did think it would do no harm to obtain the recommendation of our colonial legislature to the Imperial Parliament to grant the powers required." We learn from the Sydney papers that it is likely his lordship the Bishop of Sydney will undertake a voyage to England for the purpose of obtaining such legislation from the Imperial Parliament as may place the Church upon a satisfactory footing in the Australasian colonies. NELSON". There is no news of importance from Nelson. The subject of the Pasturage Eegulations was still occupying public attention. The Nelson Examiner of the 10th instant, reprints our article of the 27th March, upon the Local administration of the waste lands of New Zealand, with the following comment:— " We have reprinted with great satisfaction from the Lyttelton Times an admirable article on the land question of the colony. We most thoroughly concur in the sentiments expressed by our able contemporary, and shall be willing to second him to the best of our ability in the line of action he so forcibly lavs down. The time has indeed come when the colonists should rouse themselves. and assert manfully their right to control the waste lands. New Zealand for the Zew Zealanders; the colony for the colonists, is an admirable cry, which-we should never cease making until the object we contend for is gained. The Session of Parliament which is now sitting will confer upon us we believe a full and free system of representation ; and within our future Legislatures as well as without, —at our meetings and in the press, let us, we say, unite against this constant meddling with the land question at home, and claim the exclusive control of it for the colony." It is the highest, indeed, the only reward of a journalist that his efforts to direct public opinion should be responded to by the sober and thinking part of the community. "The sympathy of the Nelson Examiner is doubly valuable to us, and to the cause of truth in this great question, as coming from one who is in many respects our political opponent. We shall recur to this subject at the earliest opportunity, believing it to be almost, if not entirely, the most important suhject which can occupy' the minds of the colonists of New Zealand ; and we shall do so the more readily that our hands are strengthened by so able an ally.