The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 105, 2 June 1847, Page 2

The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1847.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends them aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, and Truth's.

AUCKLAND SAVINGS' BANK. In our columns of to-day will be found the Provisional Rules and Regulations of the Auckland Savings' Bank. Whatever may be our differences of opinion Upon other subjectSi municipal, political, or religious, we can surely join with respect to this, in approval and hearty good wishes for success. Even our congratulations on that success would be hardly premature, for such institutions are no longer a doubtful experiment. With respect to their own internal economy, the soundness of the system upon •■which they are conducted, has been ascertained ; and they have been found of assured and proved efficacy in ameliorating, not only the worldly condition, but the morals of those classes for whose benefit they are especially designed. Their peculiar influence in checking, not only waste and unthrift, but likewise intemperance, and the crapulous manner of life induced by what is commonly called " living from hand to mouth ;" their power in raising that feeling of self-respect, that consciousness of a position in the world, to be maintained and even bettered, which generally follows hard upon the acquisition of property, has been too long acknowledged to need being insisted on here by us. We would rather direct attention to the new field of operation which here lies open to this institution. In Europe, a Savings' Bank system was merely the promoter of improvement ; here it will be an immediate and active agent in civilization. For the Natives are a.c now, to our knowledge, taking the greatest ' Interest in the scheme ; the Rules of it are scanned by them with a critical eye, and questions the most pertinent occasionally put con • cerning them ; they have even been made the . subject of lectures delivered by one of the chiefs to an admiring audience. Their greatest curiosity now seems to be concerning the rate of interest presently to be allowed ; but even were there none allowed, there would still be money invested by them. They are becoming awake to the pleasure of simple accumulation, to the advantage of putting their money partially out of their own power, so far, at least, as to relieve them from the immediate temptation of spending or throwing it away. Our moral influence over them, now much too small, will be increased by giving them the habit of trusting us ; and power tenfold will accrue to the law, when it shall have to deal, not with the persons alone of half naked ' savages, but' with substantial men of property, vulnerable in the teuderest point equally with ourselves. The thanks of the community are due to all that have any wise contributed to the execution of the scheme j — to His Excellency, for the encouragement he has given by consenting to preside, (and, unless we are misinformed, by still more distinct tokens of his good will,) • as well as to all who have stepped forward, volunteering their money, time, and trouble, . to carry out the objects of the institution of which we speak. They have cast their bread upon the waters, and it shall return to them alter many days. ' The Bank will be opened, at the new Brick Store of J. I. Montefiore, Esq., on Saturday next, from seven to eight o'clock in the Evening, when two of the Trustees, Messrs. Montefiore and Brown, will be in attendance to receive Deposits; and on Monday next, the 7th of June, the Rev. J. P. Churton and Mr. Dilvvorth will attend at the Bauk from 12 to 1 , o'clock, p.m«