The New Zealander SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1845.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 30, 27 December 1845, Page 2

The New Zealander SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1845.

Be just ami fear not: Let all the ends thon aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy Gou's, and ttuth's.

By the Strathista and Perseverance, from Sydney, since our last, we have received English ne.ws to the end of July last. The Hamlet had arrived in Sydney, from England on the 7th of August, but she brought no mail. The Dublin, was to bring the mail of the Ist August. , In" our columns,' Avill be found extracts, from the London newspapers, respecting the debates in Parliament, on the 23rd and 24th July last, on New Zealand affairs The sacking of Kororarika, had occasioned much sensation in England, and Captain Robertson has been promoted to the rank of Commander. In the House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel read extracts from the instructions of Lord Stanley to Governor Grey, an i we cannot but wonder at the continued ignorance of his Lordship and the Ministers, of the real state of the colony, and, of the true character of 4;he aborigines We in a former number, adverted to the absurd, impracticable, proposed measure of his lordship, as regard* the natives, as well as the Europeans, being obliged to come and register their lands, describe the boundaries, and make surveys, j and then subsequently to pay v a tax on their land, or in default, their property is to j evert to the Crown. ■ ' • Another equally ridiculous idea of his lordship is, to include the natives "in-'the formation of local municipal- bodies, 'with powers of taxation 1" r local purposes, and of making necessary bye-laws, leaving the more genera! powers of local legislation, to the Council, as at preterit established,' 1 — and likewise, u that the natives shall bear equal burthens of taxation as the European settlers ! !" What >"an be more egregiously absurd' than such a pr'oposi- ; tion ? —The thought of " the honorable member for Orukei" or of " Alderman

[ Tinana" in connexion with the prese.nt condition of the" natives, banishes all serious reflection on the politics of the Colony. We shall merely remark, that it must be decidedly obvious to every one, in the least acquainted with the- New Zealanders that 'his Lordship* could not have hit on two measures more certain of involving- the who'e colony in warfare- and bloodshed, than those of enforcing registration, and taxes off native lands/^ahd of endeavouring* to' make the'natives subject to domestic taxation. i -In the vote for. -Miscellaneous services, by the Hous.e of Commons, there had been included; 'the^sum fcf £22.565 for the colony of New Zealand. - The several departments for, which the annual Parliamentary (grant Jmd been made were included in this s.um,-r-such as, Governor, ]'JE1 4200 4 200 (and .not • .&cj and the remaining ;#ls,<'<oQ'wa3 to be. placed, at the disposal of Governor Grey. x - ; The Terror schooner-, was Gxpectedtf-o leave Sydney about the 15th Dec, having , been chartered to bring' miners, that had \ arrived in Sydney from England, to Ka- [' vVau. It is to be hoped she will hring the English August m,ail by the Dublin.