NEW PLYMOUTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 595, 17 July 1858, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH.

Our files of papers from->th|sr provinceare soi irregular,,that we cannot, follow out ;its news in rbtatidiii ;. We have the''Taranaki 'Herald? .of the 12^th and 19th of Juhe ; and of the 3rd instant, arid the 'Taranaki News' of the lOth .ult.''.'Where'lth'e"blanie',for this irregularity lies ! we'haVe no means of ascertaining. The papers 'are chiefly taken' up with'tKe bunglirig manner "in;which Mr! Brown conducted the presentation in the House'of Representatives, of the Pro-t-vihciar Council's nienibrialdn 'the state of na- • tive affairs. During the '/debate1' on that me- • morial, some hon. members eerisuVed';the tone ibf rtlieJTarahaki pi'essj which-has excited great ' ihEighiition <in the ' Four tlv Restate.' ~ .The 'Herald' of the 19fchJuney gives the following •terse account-of the mariner iri. which the memorial '.was: quashed :^-r " '

Mr. ABrown,; after putting! on the L paper a ■vague notice to " consider"stbV question, which heshoitld have known the'Wms 'of :ihfe;Hoiise '.vroVild'not-allow" to:be' moved, brought 1 forward his motion" on: the'2hd instant, arid when told by the Speaker that he must "put a substantive question for the House to entertain, converted it;at the last moraeht into a motion " That' the iProclamation ought to :be enforced." Our worst-, forebodings proved but^too '■ true j the hon. member. broke down more fatally than with his budgetof last session, and so ■ ludicrousiwas his statement that whien the Colonial Secretaryi quietly' suggested the withdrawal of the motion^ he readily seized • upon this method of escape.from his untoward position ! : .. Mr. King, the Chairman of Committe in the Provincial Council, writes as follows, on the same subject in. the; 'Herald' of the 3rd instant:-— ■ ...'..-■ ■::..'■■■' •■■ '•-'■•: . ..-: • '■

.-Ii: have no hesitation in saj'ing that had the Provincial Council been made acquainted with the opinions of Mr. C. Brown, that the memorial would have been entrusted to Mr/East, the member for Omata, whose speech in the House, ; represents'the opinions of the 'Provincial Council,! fndl^hink^pf'the people, of the province.: Irt '' ilife ;hapds of Mr._East'the memorial would have been properly, placed, and I have no doubt; ; would' have, been.,brought before the House in !sucfi : ,a shape as to : ;have elicited the opinions of ! the mem.bers,;and■-. have ■ forwarded to some exjtent fthe-iviews of the memorialists. Mr.:C- ---! Brown's notice could not pQssibly have been' icarried; ami-il';quite jagree with the: sentiment •expro'ssfed'by. the Editor of the 'Herald;' that, iif^the'member to wblPm the ine'moiial was en-' ;tflisted' had sought" means.'.whereby to have inegatived the statements and opinions contained* iiri'.'it, lie"could.not,have ; adopted any course so, iwell calculated -.to, attain, his ■object.; „; i; .'Sy'ef'quo.te the;following paragraph of local | jinteiligence; from the same journal .; —- 'l A disagreeable report has been in; circulation i for- some'days that the lastoutgoirigbyerlahd, I imail to Auckland was'opened.and searched at the';Waitiaira! and^'one or toore 'loose letters, phi^e.d.- as* is' du'stomary,: by'^,'tbe I*pstmasteri in .. the1 ou,tyr'bagf6r delivery at intermediate places bn ' the cpast abstracted, The letters, it is stated, were addressed'to Ihaia, and were siezed arid opened with the. object of a.-rivirig at .liis plans, which are in some obscurity.. -The affair for the preterit, as we have said, isi one of niere rumour^ arid can'only be; substantiated, if true, by the eviderice of the native' mail carrier, who,, should at this time beat Ka'whia. Under such circumstances, it would be p,rematui-e and scarcelY fair to repeat the name of the native pr natives said to be implicated. At. the samo time the public ; will require full investigation 4nd explanation at thei proper time .of this Alleged tamperirig with our postal s.eryice. The overland commumcatiPh between Auckland ,;md Wellington by way of this province "has" been

I hitherto generally and unavoidably, resjrted to ,by the several provinces of; the,, colony under ,the impression that the communication, though slow'/ is sure'; But! We sh'air have/to warn the public to look tb .th'e'ir'vlettera if the bags on their: transit- are-- liable;'or ; permitted' to be qpehed, except ■By lawful- authority, under any pretence of pretext whatever; • ;