The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 189, 22 March 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1848^

The barque " Eleanor Lancaster," Lodge, master, arrived yesterday evening, from Newcastle the 3rd hstant. She has but a very small Sydney mail, and has biought no news of importance. She shipped 160 head of cattle but has only brought 80 head into port, the half of her number being lost on the voyage. She has been more fortunate with her sheep ; out of 200 shipped, she has now on board 190.

A Meeting took place yesterday at the Exchange Hotel, pursuant to advertisement, of persons interested in the formation of an Agricultural and Horticultural Society in Auckland. The attendance was tolerably good, and the opinion universal that such an association was wanting, and ought to be got together. From thirty lo forty gentlemen put down their names, as annual subscribers. A provisional committee was named for the purpose of arranging matters with a view to the next meeting, to be called at an early day. It was announced that His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief would accept the office of Patron, and had promised to contribute all the aid in his power towards promoting fhe very laudable design of the meeting. Major Matson, (who we hope will become a permanent settler here), and several other gentlemen who have had practical knowledge and experience in the working of such societies, are the chief movers on this occasion, which induces us to anticipate that energetic endeavours will at last be used to carry out the most beneficiel purposes of the intended society to their fullest extent. When a similar association was projected some months ago, the time and circumstances were not altogether propitions, most of the settlers being busy at their farms, and many of the influential people of Auckland away. The case is different now, and so we hope will be the result.

At the request of the Rev. J. P. O'Reily, we have given insertion to a communicated account, of the consecration of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday last. We are obliged however, to observe, that more is contained in that communication than a mere description of the ceremony ; that there are opinions expressed in it, or as good as expressed, for wliich we hold ourselves in no wise responsible. With this remark, which is made in no illiberal spirit, but merely to guard against being misunderstood, as assenting to such opinions, we make place /or the report in our columns.

We have received a letter complaining of the frequent use of the phrase "The Missionaries," more especially in our paper of Saturday last, in connexion with the present dispute concerning Land Claims, It has been used by us, as it is almost universally, with reference to some of those who were sent hither by the Church Mission Society, who alone appear to have acquired land from the Natives. The phrase, and the application of it, are so perfectly well understood, both here and in England, that there can be no reasonable grounds of fear of misinterpretation. That there are Missionaries of other denominations in New Zealand, is true ; but the most sensitive among them cannot possibly suppose that their names are likely to be mixed up with the present dispute with Government. And if we ourselves have put a specific rather than a generic meaning upon the expression complained of, it was merely ii> accot dance with common parlance, and with moial certainty of not being misunderstood.