LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 68, 19 September 1846, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

We believe that the Legislative Council will be summoned, during the course of the ensuing week. It is impossible to conjecture the precise nature of the measures the Governor intends to submit for the consideration of the Council, but we feel persuaded that His Excellency has gained much useful experience since his arrival in the Colony, that will prompt him to lay upon the table such Bills as the immediate exigencies of the country imperatively demand. If we may venture to ofter a few suggestions, we should recommend the speedy introduction of a just and equitable system for regulating the purchases of Land from the Natives. A measure of this kind is indispensable to the continuous prosperity of the Colony. There are hundreds of individuals, who have hitherto been engaged in commerce, njpt from choice but from necessity. Trained from their infancy to agricultural pursuits, and preferring them above all other, they only embarked in trade because the acquisition of land was rendered so difficult by the absurd £1 per acre system. Now, however, that experience has proved, that land may be honorably and cheaply acquired from the" natives ; and the longings of these traders after occupations more congenial to their tastes, and more compatible with their habits, have been increased by the experience they have gained of the salubrity of the climate, and the fecundity of the soil; it is highly desirable that every impediment should be removed, ,and that every facility should be offered to those who are eager to swell the number of the cultivators of the soil, who must ever be regarded as the mainstays of the Colony, A Cattle Slaughtering Ordinance, framed as -well to protect the grazier, as preserve the health and cleanliness of the Town, is rilko much required. A mutual Fencing Act, and a Dog Nuisance Ordinance, with several others, that will doubtless occur to the members of the Council, are equally essen- 1 tial. As yet, we are kept in total ignorance upon the interesting question of who the Gentlemen may be who are to represent us in the Council.