NEW ZEALAND CHARTER,

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 108, 12 June 1847, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND CHARTER,

We had intended to let the new Charter of Government for New Zealand, with its accompanying documents, pass by without notice, except of ils anival, until next week, being unwilling to hazard an immediate opinion on a subject of such importance. But one perusal of it has completely done away with all reserve; were it studied for a year and a day, no man that knows New Zealand could ever come to any other conclusion thari that it is the most valuable gilt ever yet conferred upon the colony. Read the instructions, and hypochondraic is no more, smothered in unextinguishable peals of Kabelasian laughter ; wave ihe charter, and away go all the blue devils that ever were bred in a tun, scattered at once into all the winds — Now we may live merrily, like Ariel under the bough, never without something to laugh at. Were 'we indeed to be ridden in earnest by this precious specimen of Whig legislation, it would be no laughing matter; but it will fall, a dead letter. For luckily it contains a clause, empowering the Governor to put off the promulgation of it to such time as he shall deem fit, — to the Greek Kalends, to Latter Lammas, or in the language of Alcofribas Nasier, a la venue dcs coques-cigrues. Of course^ we assume without hesitation, that he will treat it as a piece of waste-paper; he cannot accept Ft ; ret ipsa per se vociferatur ad contrariam. We have no patience to dwell upon it ; at least upon that part of it' which relates to the natives. The climax had better be wound up at once by voting it, the wildest all-unimaginable absurdity that ever issued from " the brain of that foolish-coin pounded clay, man." ' \

Taranaki. — The cutter Fisherman, ■ from Nelson the 23th May, called at Tdianaki on her way to this' port. The natives in that di&trict were^ perfectly quiet: and the agricultural produce of last season had been very abundant. The Fisherman's cargo from Taranaki consists of 132 bags of flour, 23 bags of oats, nnd a quantity ot'butter, hams, potatoes, and wheat. We are sorry to have to record the death of the Rev. Mr. Bolland, Episcopalian Minister, of New Plymouth, which took place, . after a brief illness, at Tarnnaki, on the 29th May.

Auckland Savings' Bank.— Dr. Campbell and Mr. W. 8. Grahame, the accountant and trustee in rotation, will attend this evening, from 7 to 8 o'clock, at Mr. Montefiore's store, to receive deposits ; and on Monday next, 14th, Rev. Thos. Buddie and Mr. Montefiore, will be in attendance from 12 to 1 o'clock.

H. M. 58th Regiment —Lieut. Petky, and 20 men of the gallant 58th, have arrived in H. M. S. Racehorse— the welcome precursors of the rest of our old friends. The Thomas Lowry, and another vessel, have been taken up to convey to Auckland that portion of the regiment which is now at Sydney.