The New-Zealander. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 195, 12 April 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends tlion aims't at, be thy Country s, Tliy God's, aud Truth's. UPRIL 12, 184 8.

A Gazette was published yesteiday. which contains returns of the Imports and Exports of New Zealand for the year 184-7. At Auckland, the imports of the year amount to £92,229, and the exports to £17,385; sterling; the amount of British and foreign shipping entered inwards was 15,129 tons. The imports for the whole of New Zealand during 1847, amount to and the exports to £4-5,485. The amount of shipping arrived wrs 45,147 tons. The.ro are two returns shewing the amount of Emigration and Immigration at the port of Auckland during the years 1846 and 1847, and /or the quarter ended sth of this month, It appe»rs by the former that the number of persons who have emigrated from this place, during 1847, is 239, whilst the number arrived is 1,472— being an increase of immigration over ernigraiion of 1120 persons. Vor the quarter ended sth April, instant, the number of persons departed is 111; of those arrived, 545 ; shewing an increase of arrivals over departures, of 434 persons within the last quarter, There are also two proclamations announcing the sale of Crown lands, at A uckland, and at the new township of Howick, on the Tamaki. We shall copy these notices into our pages, that those who have not access to the Gazette, may be made aware of the approaching sales, and the terms and conditions thereof.

Her Majesty's sloop, Fly, eighteen guns, commander Oliver, arrived on Saturday last fiom England via Cape of Good Hope and HobartTown, She sailed from Plymouth on the 16th November, and consequently brings no later news than we have already received via Sydney ; but her intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is of a later date than any we had before received. The most powerful and determined chief of the Kaffirs had made a complete surrender of himself and his councillors to the hero of Ulawul, Sir Harry Smith, by whose tact and decision a fedious and expensive war has been brought to a termination. Sandilla and his followers were escorted into Graham's Town by a detachment of Dragoons. The South Jfrican Advertiser says— " To this chief and his evil councillors may justly be ascribed all the miseries that have accompanied this absurd contest. The Governor of the colony is now the paramount chief of Cafferland. He assumes the management of a wide extent of country very much in a state of nature— open fields and tangled forest; without mills, schools, or churcheß, or any of those contrivances that give government or magistracy a command of its surface or recesses; together with the education and training of a people only recently, as it were, cut out of the clay, yet with fully developed passions, inveterate superstitions, and very high ineellectual powers. It is not a light class of duties that has thus devolved on the British Government. Here is not the work of a day, or a work to oe accomplished by talent or energy in a single campaign. It is a work of years and of generations, for courage, forethought, and comprehensive genius, and upon the sound or unsound formations now laid depends the future history of this part of the world."

Naval.— H.M.S. Fly is to sail in few days for Wellington, to relieve the Racehorse, which vessel will immediately proceed to England. The Calliope, we understand, is to leave tomorrow or Friday for the Bay of Islands, wilh His Excellency the Governor-ia-Chief, and the JDido will remain here for some time longer. The Colonial brig Victoria sailed this morning for Wellington and Nelson. The Acheron, steam sloop, was to leave England at the end of November. She was to call at Sydney, from whence she is now daily expected.

Programme.— On Thursday, April 13, at 4 o'clock, on the space of ground opposite the Council Chamber, the Band of the 58th Regiment, will perform the following pieces of music :— Overture Op.— « The Fair Maid of Perth ".. Waddell Cay. Op.— " Norma" Bellini Waltz— u Hommage a la Rcine " Strauii Cay. Op. — " Richard et Zoraide " Rosiini Quadrille — " The English " Jullien Polka— "The Camelia " "