THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Sept 3, 1842.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 3 September 1842, Page 102

THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Sept 3, 1842.

Les joumaux deviennent plus necessaires a meaure que lea homines aout plus igaux, et 1' individualisme plus a craindre. Cc aerait diminuer leur importance que de croire qu' ils ne aervent qu' a garantir la liberty : ila maintiennent la civilisation. Dx TocauxviLLi. De la Democratic en Amerique, tome 4, p. 320. Journals become more necessary a* men become more equal, and individualism more to be feared, It would be to underrate their importance to suppose that they serve only to secure liberty : they maintain civilisation. Dx TocauxyiLLH'. Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. 220.

There is matter of much moment in our last number, in the shape of extracts from English papers, on the subject of the coluiization of New Zealand. It is plain to*li©» sight of even the least interested that Lord Stanley has not sufficiently the interest of these colonies at heart to allow of his courageously departing from the old lonfeestablished mother- country ism of Downing Street. It is equally clear that nothing but a series of decisive measures can enable us as we should be enabled to meet the many difficulties and disadvantages that attend our settling operations, on account of oqft great distance from England, and the long time that must always elapse between the giving a command or an instruction and its being received here. The withdrawal of an inefficient Governor, under these circumstances, becomes a matter of life and death*" importance to us. We cannot believe that Lord Stanley, or any other man having a spark of honest good-will to his duty in his breast, can refuse to listen to the complaints of a community struggling with all the obstacles presented to a newly-settled body, when backed by a string of facts such as history of the government of New Zealand affords. Incompetence is stamped upon every act of Governor Hobtfon. Extravagance, inexcusable extravagance, the bills which he has drawn will be sufficient vouchers for. Partiality, the very worst of partiality — that which injures one party without beaefitting the other — this, who can deny it in him ? To our fellow-colonists we say, not without having considered the matter — Are things to remain thus? Do you intend to allow, unprotested against, these mischiefs to go on increasing, or will you give yourselves the satisfaction of knowing that you did your duty to yourselves? Where it is, this matter cannot rest. Things will either go on until the impending ruin of the settlements in dpese islands shall enforce, too late, the attemioir of the Coloniaal Office to the Wil results of their obstinate adherence to a bad system, or otherwise ; and in this there is a better Tiope. You will enforce by a temperate but firm remonstrance the attention of\ the Home Government to the fact that your; interests have been and are being daily sacrificed to the inability, pique, partiality, or indifference, of the man whom utter want or ponsi-* deration for the necessary qualifications for the office has made Governor of \New Zealand.