AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1852.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 696, 15 December 1852, Page 2

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1852.

A Government Ga-ettc was published yesterday, the contents of which we need not specify in detail bore, as we transfer the entire to our columns. We cannot, however, pass without a word of comment the Proclamation by His Excellency the Go-vernor-in-Chief, declaring the Royal disallowance of the Ordinance of last Session authorizing the Governor to apply a portion of the Land Fund arising within a Municipal District at the instance of the Corporation thereof. We invite attention to the last clause, — "This Proclamation shall take effect from and after the day of the dale hereof." Now as it is dated the twenty-ninth of November, His Excellency's intention seems to have been to take upon himself the responsibility of permitting the one-third of the proceeds of the Land Sales to come into the hands of the people for expenditure by their representatives, during at least the full and complete Municipal year, which terminated on the 48th ult. It appears therefore that the Borough has sustained considerably greater injury by the Common Council's abandonment of its trust in May last, than had previously been supposed. If the New Zealand Company had any sense of gratitude, they should pass a vote of thanks, if they presented no more substantial testimonial, to the very " talented" and patriotic majority by whose resolute efforts so large a sum— which otherwise might have been expended on roads and bridges, draining and cleansing, and similar works within the Borough— has been saved from all such local appropriations, and consigned, past redemption, to their coffers.