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our part, think of making the unity of the Genera Government depend upon the accident of its location. We should be strongly averse to any needless disruption of the Colony ; while at the same time, we highly value, and would warmly adhere to, the Provincial institutions of New Zealand, as the Provinces are at present defined. The stability of combined liberty and order is to be secured only by the harmonized operation of a real and local self-government with a powerful general control; although even thus the precious result must always depend on the qualifications derived from a manly and religious training. For securing these objects, so far as political relations can secure them, it would not be easy to devise a much more desirable constitution than that which has been adopted in New Zealand, subject to such modifications as an extended experience may suggest. There ought, we think, to be no time lost in establishing, whether by Imperial or Colonial legislation, some mode of procedure whereby the representation of the several Provinces in the General Assembly should be spontaneously adjusted, according to the periodical returns of the census, and other statistical data. The most eligible basis of representation would probably be the combined elements of Population and Property or Taxation. In Gieat Britain it is considered sufficient, that there should be a re-adjustment of the political balance only at very long intervals. But the case of New Zealand,or any young colony, is different. Here almost every year produces a marked change; and our “reform bills,” in the shape of Representation Acts, occur at intervals, not of generations, but of years or months. For a country so circumstanced it is surely a crude and mischievous state of things, in which the relative amount of representation, for the_various provinces and districts, is a matter of haphazard scramble.

We now descend to humbler themes, and proceed to say a few words as to some arrangements that we propose to adopt in the management of this journal. A portion of these is the occupation of the more extensive and commodious premises, adjoining our present offices, which have been erected specially for the requirements of the New-Zealander newspaper. We have also taken the requisite steps for increasing, as speedily as practicable, the extent and efficiency of our staff. After the expiration of the present quarter, which will terminate with the’end of September, our daily impression will be upon a double sheet, and in the meantime we shall have recourse to the more enlarged form, as the demands of public news may suggest. The publication of a double sheet will enable us habitually to lay before our readers more copious expositions of subjects of interest, and fuller extracts from the contemporary press. By these various means we hope to be recognized as presenting to the public a really good newspaper, political, commercial, and general. The arrangements which we have intimated, will of course involve increased outlay, and we shall require to revise the terms of subscription. The present terras are merely those which were in force, when this journal was published twice a week, and afterwards three times a week. After the end of September the amount of the quarterly subscription will be the same (fifteen shillings) as is usually adopted by daily newspapers in this Colony. Such is a brief sketch of our sentiments and intentions. We trust that the product of our exertions 'will be such as to win the approbation of a liberal and discerning public.^—“ NewZealander” Office, August 31st, 1864. PUBLICATIONS., Just Published, price, 2s. 6d. ; by post, 3s. 6d., A SERIES OF WORKS, each one complete in itself. Dr. L. L. Smith, on the Means of Prolonging Life and Avoiding Diseases. H. T. Dwight, publisher, Melbourne, and sold by all booksellers. A Demy Bvo., price Ten Shillings. DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF NEW ZEALAND by Henry Smythies, “ New Zealander,” Shortland-crescent. Auckland the capital of new Zealand and the country adjacent; including some accoun of the gold discovery in New Zealand, with a view of the City, from the Harbour, and a map of the Auckland district. “ New-Zealander,” Shortland-crescent. Demy Bvo., in one volume. Just Published, And on Sale at the “New-Zealander"’ Office Acts of the Auckland provincial , COUNCIL, froih Session I. to Session XIV., Single copies may likewise be obtained, P. ice One Shilling. A letter to the right honourable lord LYTTELTON, on the relation of Great Britain with the Colonists .and. Aborigines of New Zealand, by Crosbib Ward, Esq., M.G.A. “ New-Zealander,” Shortland-crescent. Geological and Topographical Atlas of New Zealand, by Dr. F. Hochstetter, and D, A Petemann. THE GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND, IN EXPLANATION of the GEOLOGICAL and TOPOGRAPHICAL ATLAS, from the scientific publications of the Novara Expedition, translated by Dr. C. F. Fischer. T. Delattre. Queen-street, Handsomely Illuminated, price 2s. 6d. Auckland code of signals,—with a view of Rangatoto—printed on cardboard. “ New-Zealander.” Shortland-crescent. JUST RECEIVED, And on Sale at the New-Zealander Office, VIEWS of the PROVINCE of AUCKLAND Drawn from Nature by FREDERICK R. STACK, Esq., Late Major of Brigade, Auckland. Price —Coloured £2 2s. Double-tinted . . . , £1 Is, Price Three Shillings. G HARTS OF THE WAIKATO DISTRICT, extending from the Heads of the river on the West Coast to its junction with the Waipa, at the King’s residence, Ngaruawahia. “ NEW-ZEALANDER” fithaflrajhnj dfetahliahuupri, Shortland Crescent. Gold LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING executed Silver, Bronze, Black, Tints, or Colours; Also, Chalk Views, Maps, Plans of Estate, Charts, Circulars Labels, Architectural Drawings, Drawings of Mach mors nsurance Policies, Local Views, Addresses and Businesy Cards, Commercial Forms, Invoices, Crests, Labels, &c. COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. To Colonial Newspaper Proprietors. PRINIiNG MATERIALS, Ink, and Paper, supplied at the Lowest Rates for Cash. Orders with Remittances punctually attended to. G, STREET, British and Colonial Advertising and General Newspaper Agency Office, 30, Cornhill, London, E.O WEDDING PRESENTS, BIRTHDAY PRESENTS and PRESENTS suitable for GIRLS and BOYS, also Berlin Wools, finished and unfinished, Fancy Needlework, Patterns, and Canvases, are now selling at the BEEHIVE, Toy and Fancy Repository, in Queen-street. —Note the address: The Bee-hive, in Queen-street.