The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 960, 27 June 1855, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855.

U c misf and fenr nor Let nil the ends thou aim’st at, be thy ('ountry’s, Thy God’s, anil Truth’s.

Nothing but n high sense of the necessity of keeping - ilie public truly informed as lo the actual condition lo which the proceedings of the Superintendent have reduced litis Province, and of taking- care that the responsibility for the evils with which we are afflicted, as well as those with which we are threatened, should be borne by the real delinquent, could induce us to devote so much of our space, day after day, to the exposure of what we are obliged to call the "artful dodges" of the Provincial Government.

In another place will be found a series of documents called "a correspondence" which has passed between the Waste bands Board, the Superintendent, and the Colonial Secretary, and which has been published, His Honor says, at the " request" of the first named body. The resolutions of the Hoard and llie letters of the Superintendent are literary gems in the new style officielle, and the object of the publication we lake lo be—a very chivalrous one on ihe part of the Land Commissioners—to save .Mr. Brown from the consequences of his own acts and to throw the blame of all the difficulty and all the delays which have taken place in bringing (he Land Regulations into complete operalion, upon the General Government of the Colony. The whole case lies in a nutshell. Mr. Brown, by a most insolent and unwarrantable exercise of his authority, prorogued the Provincial Council in the midst of its labours, and thus prevented the formal appropriation of the sum for the expenses of the Land Hoard, 1,700/. if we remember, which had been actually voted, and ils expenditure authorised by a resolution of the House. Mis Honor finds it convenient lo repudiate the solemn pledge by the Council in order lo create a grievance, and thereupon he instiiutesa "correspondence,"—his great resource with the General Government.

The Superintendent will not accept the vote of the Council in the sit ape of a resolution; he takes care, by not calling them again together, that no appropriation by act can be made, and instead of devoting himself, at any risk of responsibility, to bringing into effective operation the regulations for the sale of land, his Honor addresses himself to picking a new quarrel with the Col nial Secretary and the General Government, whom he now accuses, upon what grounds our readers may judge, of "slopping the Land Sales."

His Honor seems lo think that be has achieved a triumph over ihe General Government in this matter, as he boasis " that the publication of the correspondence would seem to have alarmed them into a performance of their duty," but we should net be at all surprised to learn that the "duly" of ihe Government had been already done, before ihe appearance of Ihe Gazette, and that the Officer administering the Government had, with that anxiety to promote the welfare of Auckland which has always distinguished him, over-stepped the strict line of his duly, and incurred the responsibility from which Mr. brown shrank, in order to save the Province from that uiier ruin, lo which ihe mis-management of the Waste Lands by the Provincial Government is fast hurrying' it. We see with deep mortification and regret that, by every vessel, numbers of those whom the hopes of obtaining land had attracted hither are quitting Auckland in disappointment and disgust," whilst His Honor the Superintendent is occupying his lime in discussions of legal quibbles, and in attempts dexterously to shift from himself responsibility which is peculiarly bis own.