The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1855.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 1010, 22 December 1855, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1855.

Be just and fe,ir not: Let all the ends thou aim's! at, he thy Country’s, Thy (ion’s, and Truth's.

Wellington papers of the Mill and 17th nil., have come to hand, and also one “ Taranaki Herald” of the 28lh. At New Plymouth the Provincial Council re-assembled on the 22nd of November. The Superintendent addressed the Council, showing that the estimated expenditure for the year 1856 was, for official salaries and general purposes, 5,782/., public works an 1 harbour improvements, road extensions, etc, and immigration from England and Australia, 0000/.—total, 11,782/. The estimated revenue was 12,101/. He was prepared to support any movement for iho improvement of the means of landing and shipping cargo The Land Regulations for the Province had received the sanction of the Governor; and as soon as a Crown-grant of unalienaledl lands should be received for educational purposes, he should propose a measure for the consolidation and leasing of such lands, by which he hoped that at the end of next year there would be a revenue of 1000/ applicable to the promotion of education in the Province. He anticipated large sales of the rural land, which will be opened next year; and he decidedly approved of the Bill for limiting the number of Provincial officers having seals in the Provincial Council, and to prohibit members of lie Council from undertaking contracts for the public service of the Province, —as it affirmed the principle of the freedom of the Council from influence by the Superintendent. Several messages and measures in connexion with the address were brought forward, alter which the Council adjourned lo the 29th. The only topic engaging the attention of our Wellington contemporaries is the result of the late elections for members for the City of Wellington in the House of Representatives. The numbers were—Clifford, 290 ; Fcalherslon, 289 ; Filzberberl, 258; Carkeck, 24-i; Hart, 258. The first three candidates, as we have previously stated, were elected; and by the “ Independent,” their return is claimed as a great triumph for the Provincial Government party. By the “ New Zealand Spectator”- which points to the fact that only 504 voted out of 745 electors on the register, and that Mr. Fitzhcrbert, the Provincial Secretary, had only a majority of 14 over Mr. Carkeek, the result is treated as all but a defeat of the Provincial Government party; and, if we may form any sort of judgment from language, we should be inclined to say that Dr. Fealherslon’s intemperate triumph over his opponents, bespoke a consciousness that the victory was only temporary, not permanent.