SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1850.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 459, 7 September 1850, Page 2

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 18 5 0.

A Government Gnzette was published yesterday evening. It is occupied to the extent of more than ten pages with a variety of information issued by the Royal Commissioners for the promotion of the Great Exhibition of 1851. We shall, if we can, find room in our next for a digest of this information, which the late hour at which the Gazette came into our hands prevents our giving in our present number. We copy, however, in another column, the notification of most immediate and local interest, which is, that Specimens from this Province intended for the Exhibition will be received at the Customs' Warehouse in Short-land-street, until the Ist of next month (October), and then transmitted to London at the expense of the Colony. The Gazette announces the appointment of William Connell, J. A. Gilfillan, Thomas Lewis, and John Woodhouse, Esquires, as Justices of the Peace. We cannot notice the announcement without expressing a gratification at these appointments, in which, we are satisfied, our readers generally will participate. The infusion of the commercial element into the higher offices and positions of our governing and administrative systems, is sound policy in itself, and is in obvious accordance with the spirit of the times. The recent elevation of Mr Jones Loyd to the peerage, and the distinction since conferred upon him by the repeated invitations of " Lord Overstone" to I the Royal dinner-table, are amongst the most popular of the many popular acts by which the reign of our beloved Queen has been characterised. And, according to our local circumstances, an analogous meed of public approval will attend this step of Sir George Grey. The new magistrates are well known to their fellow townsmen as gentlemen whose commercial integrity, general intelligence, and — let us add — abstinence from the angry strife of mere party politics, afford abundant security I for their efficiency and impartiality on that Bench where they are now most worthily and most judiciously placed. A despatch from Earl Grey, with Royal Instructions respecting the remission to a certain extent of the purchase money of land acquired by Military and Naval Officers proposing to settle in New Zealand, and the disposal of land in connection with the settlement of Military Pensioners, is important to those whose interests it affects. It will be found in another column. Certain parcels of Hospital reserved lands situate in the town and suburbs of Auckland, and in Shoal Bay, are advertised to be let " on reasonable terms," for any term not exceeding twenty-one years As this notification may have an interest for some of our readers, I we transfer it also to our columns.