THE NELSON EXAMINER. WEDNESDAY,APRIL. 11, 1855.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 4, 11 April 1855, Page 2

THE NELSON EXAMINER. WEDNESDAY,APRIL. 11, 1855.

Journtli becotn* more necemry m men become more equal and individualism more to be feared. It would be to underrate their importance to tuppoie that they terve 0n1y.40 lecure Übtrty : thty maintain civilization. Dr Tocudivilli. Of Democracy in America, vol. r., p. 230. \ The Bill passe^i^jjluring the late session of the Provincial Council, for enlarging the number of its members, has been assented to by the Officer administering the Government, and « therefore now in \force ; so that after the registration, which is xibw in progress, elections for additional members will take place in the Town of Nelson, the - Suburban districts, Waimea East, Waimea South, Motueka, Massacre Bay, and the Amuri districts. In speaking of this measure, we have already characterized it as the first reform of our Provincial Legislature, and it was a reform which was urgently called for. The working of the Council, as it has been constituted, has not been satisfactory, and the infusion into it of so much new blood as this ordinance will give, and the augmentation of its numbers, cannot fail, we think, to work a very salutary change. The representatives of the province having done their part in passing "a Council Enlargement Bill, it now rests with the electors to select men who may worthily be entrusted with the charge of their interests. The magnitude of these interests are much more apparent now than they were two years ago, when the first registration and elections took place. The revenue to be appropriated was not then expected, after deducting the charges of the General Government, to much exceed a 63,000, the sum appropriated last session was close upon .€33,000 ; the powers of the Council were then considered to be very limited, now they are found to embrace little less than the entire Government of the Province, including the control of the Waste Lands. If we look soberly at our position, the responsibility which rests upon every man qualified to be an elector of the Province is very great, for all are more or less chargeable with the success or failure of the institutions whic_h have been given to the colony, and upon which so much of its future weal or woe depends. In the^rst instance, it is the duty of every man entitled to a vote to register his claim, and in the next to exercise the privilege he has acquired with discretion, and with a sole view to the public welfare. The Duke of Wellington* /rom Sydney, has brought us no later English^intelligence, she having left on the same day as the William Denny sailed for Auckland. We shall notice the contents of the papers received, in our next.