The New Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 772, 7 September 1853, Page 2

The New Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1853.

Be just ami fear not: Let all the ends fnou aim’st at, be thy Country's, Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

We have this day llic gratification of transferring to our columns an important, and, we trust, an auspicious, novelty, —the contents of the First Number of the ‘‘Auckland Provincial Government Gazette." The whole Gazette will be read so generally, and with so much interest, that a simple enumeration of ils announcements, and an expression of the pleasure with which they deserve to be received by the Province, may sulllcc here for the present. Lieutenant-Colonel Wynyard proclaims Ids entrance upon office as the duly elected Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. We have also the Lists of the gentlemen returned by I lie several electoral districts as members of the Provincial Council. Then comes the Proclamation fixing the dale of the meeting of the Council. Wc have already expressed our conviction that his Honor would interpose no unnecessary delay, but that, so soon as he had the indispensable official information as to the Governor’s intentions on the vital point of placing the revenues arising in the Province at the disposal of the Provincial Representatives, he would forthwith determine on convening the Council for the despatch of business. That information having now been received, his Honor proclaims that the session will commenceat Auckland on Tuesday the ISthofnext month—being wc suppose as early a day as could conveniently be determined on, so as to allow the members from the Ray of Islands sufficient lime to hear of the arrangement, lo make their preparations for a—perhaps lengthened—absence from home, and to arrive in this eilv.

The momentous matter of finance is placed by Ilis Excellency the Governor on as liberal a fooling to the Province as the most sanguine could have anticipated. The despatches on this subject will be found in our other columns, and they speak for themselves. It will be seen that, both as respects the Customs Revenue, and the Land Revenue, His Excellency vests in the Provincial Council a control, beyond perhaps what many anticipated. This at once justifies our anxiety that men should be chosen for the Provincial Council in whose hands such power over the public funds might safely be vested, and. —now that men have been chosen, in whom, we trust, confidence may be reposed—our desire that the meeting of the General Assembly might not be so hastened as to lake out of their hands the power in this respect with which the Governor liberally invests them. We shall of course have repealed opportunities, however, of more particularly dwelling on the position in which the first Council will be placed, and shall therefore now' add only our congratulations on the favourable prospect set before the Province in this respect, and our earnest hope that the best expectations of the people may be abundantly realised.