Original Correspondence.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 472, 23 October 1850, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

it, il lie i» proved innocent, — " wp take no blnmo to ourselves" say the cxccutiunet 'judges, for it he did not dcbeivc Ins punishment, then — he must have done often before. On the second charge— though juil as eiplicitly denied by the Governor — that ot recommending icprepicsentativc institutions in o ie part, to the exclusion ol another pait, ol New Zealand, the Cioss is still more obstinate ; he tries to prove from the Governor's despatches, over a course <jf four years, a vacillation in his mind on the expediency of Repiesentative Institii* lions in New Zealand No wonder that amid the changing featuies of a colony with its numerous natives, like New Zealand, its rul»r should be cautious even to an excels, on the vital points of its political institutions ; conscientious clmnge of opinion, and its candid acknowledgment aie laudable. Had the Cross not so continuously ho/ped on opposition to all political nuthoiities, from its first ongin, i's influence would be more apparent nnil beneficial. But, however that may be, this alleged vacillation ii a complete riding of the question, which is merely whether Governor Grey h d made a certain recommendation or not The criticism on thewonK in the Governor 1 ! reply, "of course" is novel ; I subjoin it for the amusement of your readers : " Neither docs His Excellency indicate whether " the equivocal words "of course " mean, that the " w/t'ile being sated, the Northern Province, being a 'part must of course be included ; or whe'her he has '' lecornmentled that the Northern Province should " now " of course" have Ruprcscntative Institutions as «' well as the Southern !" The latter puMgroph is itself rather obscure, but what on earth matters it whe her "of course" is the one meaning or th<j other, as regard? the express charge made against the Governor of recommending the exclusion of the Noithem Province ? h-it any one dimly consider the whole subject, tli3 two onginal articles of the Southern Ciosi,, the qnes« tion ol the D putation, tlie Governor's reply to it, and the remarks ol the same Journal; and, I thinli, he will sec a good illustration of oppokiiion tactics in muny colomul politicians. All the maieiials are at hand, —an assumption of guilt, an instantaneous at task, and when put down by a plain t'Uc, the final "dimming \>ilh the faint piutae 1 ' of au equivocal recantation, I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, An Observer; Auckland, Oct. 22, 1850.