New Zealand Gazette AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR. Saturday, March 25, 1843.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume III, Issue 231, 25 March 1843, Page 2

New Zealand Gazette AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR. Saturday, March 25, 1843.

We have received a file of the Auckland Times, " alias the Mangle." They are chiefly filled with local politics as they ought to be, and with some sharp correspondence arising out of that diversity of opinion which the same subject often gives rise to amongst those who may be more or less affected by them. There is an extract from the Aborigines Protection Society, which puts us in mind of the fable of the Fox and the Badger. There is likewise a sort of retaliation upon us Port Nicholsonians for crimping the emigrants destined as the Times says for Auckland. There is also an elucidation of the mode of conducting the Treasury department of the Government ; and lastly, a gentle squeeze, or one kind move of the Mangle, for the Corporation of Wellington. The Editor reminds us of a lad who addressed his father by saying — " how are you old gentleman, not that I care, but only for the sake of conversation." So says the Mangle — " the Port Nicholson folks shan't say we don't notice them, but as to what way we may do so is immaterial.

" We are grieved to hear from Mr. Cruramer, who arrived yesterday morning in the Thomas, (coaster) and brings the latest news of Port Nicholson proceedings, that the Bombay, so long expected here with passengers direct for this place, has — by the cajolery of the Company — found her way to Nelson an'l thence to Port Nicholson. The prospects of the weeping emigrants ou their arrival have been reported to us, but we do not wish to say much upon the matter till the return of his Excellency the Governor, who, we sincerely hope, will have done something essential for the mutual interests of the Company's dependents and the untrammelled colonists of this part of the Island. It is a pleasure to add that nearly a score of cabin passengers for Auckland may be expected when the Bombay come on — as ihe shortly will do. — Times. " We hope the Governor will not be detained long over the affair at Tauranga. We are happy to know, on good authority, that the ostensible purpose of his Excellency's visit is to make some arrangements with the New Zealand Company, by which the energies of the Colonists at large may be concentrated for some useful purpose. Our neighbours at Wellington and Nelson are looking with the utmost possible anxiety for his Excellency's arrival. The brazen mask which has been worn so long is somewhat relaxed, and will shortly fall off altogether, • shewing terrible blank features beneath. The truth is, that nothing real, as to colonization in Cook's Sf raits, has been done at all ; and nothing but the large monied capital of the Company, and the Company's dupes, has held them together so long, situated as they are, in a place utterly unfit for any purpose more lasting than a fishing station. It* is hoped that the Governor will make some arrangements to open the rich district of the Thames, and then the Colony, beginning as it ought to do with a suitable Capital, backed up by a large available agricultural country, will go a-head. In the meantime, we advise the Wellingtonians not to quarrel among themselves about their corporation. The borough, if it continues one at all, will soon be like Gatton or Sarum." — Ibid. " The Colonial Government here have hitherto perpetrated all manner of injuries by the peremptory authority of the Secretary of State, which left them no alternative but to do so ; and they have refused to promote any remedies which their local experience might suggest or approve — because they have no authority to act without instructions. And this the pay that the propects of a Colony, as promising in all its materials as ever graced the coronet of the Queen, has been sullied and degraded. " Our Governor ! ! ! has taken himself off without officially stating why or wherefore, and in the mean time has suspended the disbursements of the Crown expenditure till his return, by which contrivance a debt to the tradesmen and others in the town, of perhaps little less than ten thousand pounds, will be run up, although the parties are industriously dependent upon their daily avocations for their daily bread ; and all this while the loan

of £15,000, raised in Sydney on the part of 'the Government, and which will cost certainly not less than £2,200 for contracting it, lies intact, without anything better than personal . security, till the pleasure or otherwise of the Home Government sanction or disapprove of the proceedings." — Ibid. " The Land Sale took place on Thursday morning last, and sales were effected by the Government auctioneer to the amount of about £600."— Ibid. A copy of the fifth annual report of ' The Aborigines' Protection Society,' published in London in May last. ' " New Zealand. " Your committee feel convinced, from the impartial and accurate information they have received, that if ever a nation of barbarians could be rescued from their helpless situation, and from the baneful influence of colonization, and be destined to contradict the fallacious dogma of the necessary extermination of coloured men by European settlement, the New Zealanders are that nation ; a' result your Committee especially anticipate, from the fact, that the New Zealanders are an agricultural people, and accustomed to fixed habitations. But they are, at the same time, perfectly aware that this advantage over other* barbarous races is of no avail, if a sufficiency of land is not secured to them on a uniform, principle of reserves, alike applicable to the lands of Government, of the New Zealand Company, and of private purchasers. As the most vital point therefore, in future legislation, must be regarded that of the native territorial rights. No act of the legislature has as yet appeared, setting forth the intentions of Government regarding native reserves in the districts purchased by the local Government of New Zealand. The appointment of Mr. Halswell as a Commissioner of native lands by the New Zealand Company, has not produced the expected beneficial result, for, on the arrival of that gentleman in the Colony, he was restricted to Port Nicholson, and to a nominal situation, as Sub-Protector of that district, under the orders of Mr. Clark, the Chief-Protector, appointed by Governor Hobson."

What a piteous face the Editor of the Auckland Times alias Mangle must have drawn on reading that the Bombay, had sailed for Valparaiso in ballast, and not to Auckland with a score of cabin poss°ngers. Poor fellow ! how we pity him. .In writingof Port Nicholson however, we advise him to endeavour if possible, to state the truth. Wellington is formed by nature for something better than a fishing station. We think a squeeze in his own Mangle, just to compress his ideas, would greatly benefit the worthy Editor.

The barque Indemnity, was hauled on the slip yesterday, for the purpose of being thoroughly repaired. We advise our friends to visit Kai Warra, for they will not always have the chance of seeing so large a vessel out of water.

We call attention to a paragraph in another column, respecting a cure for that dreadful affliction — blindness. As the operation is so simple, persons having friends labouring under such a calamity, ought to attend to the prescription as speedily as possible.

We notice with satisfaction the departure of the Maori Davis for Wyderop, carrying the remainder of Mr. Wade's whaling party, and stores for the station. Mr. Wade has three boat's crews and six boats at Palliser, and intends, we believe, should the season prove successful, to man the other boats. All we say on the subject is, that we trust Mr. Wade and all other gentlemen who have had the courage to enter into the hazardous pursuit of whaling, may be rewarded for their ill-luck last year.