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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 254, 31 December 1866, Page 2

To-morroAV being KeAv Year's Day, the'Evi-KiNO-Mail will not be published. It will appear on the . 2nd of January, in an enlarged form. The Albion, Avith the English Mail, left' Wellington, at noon, to-day. The mail will be delivered to-morrow morning. - - - - • . .; < As an elderly man Avas going up the Toi-Tpi yali ley, on Saturday cA-ening last, he rcmv-d a violent bloAv from a. stone, Avhich some, malicious. person . must have throAvn at him. . We regret to hear that a son of Mr. Wastney, of Wakapuaka. aged 9 years, was killed this morning, by falling from a horse. The following emservations "used by the Superintendent of Taranaki on opening the session qf tlio Provincial Council of that. province. Avith respect to the disposal of the confiscated lands, will be -found interesting:—'' The Government of this province has clearly expressed its belief that the true policy of the colony Avould be to , apply, the^whole land-fund derived from these districts to.tbe purpo.->e of promoting their . speedy, occupation , by ,a strong, population, trusting to the lessening of defence expenditure and . incomeof the customs and other branches, of jrcvenue as the surest means of lightening tlie burdens of the colony. It remains for ns now only to. await tho final decision of the Colonial Government. as to the course wliich shall be adopted. .„>'(? ..pe.rs.Qij. doubts that these lands are wholly the property,, of the colonv, and might be disposed of asthe truejnteresta of the" colony, and not as.tJ.us particular province may demand. If, therefore, '.they should, be indiscriminately sold to the highest bidffer, Avithout any means bdng taken to attract population, we cannot complain of any special injustice to this province having been committed, but can only regret, the adoption of Ayhat appears to us a short-sightciljiolicy^ektjunentol to the colony at large, as Avell as to the district in . which we live. It is very proliable.th i at;injt)ii8 J pase, as happens in. solving so .many, political problems, the .course actually taken Avill be a compromise, and that the Colonial Government, reserving to itself a large share of the land fund, tvUI, allow, "a p.bftian £d,trie , province for the trouble and cost of adminis,toing : . ./these lands, and for tbe construction of such roads as"" may ba deemed necessary for the profitable sale of the land and the security of the country."