The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 708, 26 January 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1853.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aiin'st at, be thy Country's, I'hy God's, and Truth's.

A Government Gazette was issued yesterday, which, although it does not publish any notification of striking political novelty or interest, yet contains official documents which must have a high and gratifying importance in the estimation of all who watch with friendly solicitude the progress of this district. We allude to the several Returns for the quarter and year lately ended, which exhibit in figures, none of which can be above, however some of them, from various incidental causes, may possibly be below, the truth —evidences of steady commercial, agricultural, and social advancement. It is unnecessary that we should enter into the particulars here, as the Returns themselves appear in our other columns, and, moreover, as we shall, on another day, avail ourselves of the information which they afford to supply deficiencies mat were unavoidable in the general view of the condition and prospects of the Province laid before our readers at the commencement of the new year. But we may state a few of the totals, the details of which will be found elsewhere in our present issue. The Exports of New Zealand Produce from the Port of Auckland during the quarter ending January 5, amounted in value to 17,519/., of which no less than 7,157/. was for Sawn Timber, —a commodity which our forests can supply in almost unlimited quantity. In the enumeration we find a product which—although it has not yet assumed much magnitude in the Returns, yet arrests attention as a very interesting novelty, —"Gold Dust, 22 oz. 16*-dwts.,—Bo/.; Gold Sand and Quartz, 221b5.,—34/.".... The Imports of Live Slock and of the principal kinds of Provisions., amounted to 6,126/. 105....The number of Canoes which arrived in Auckland during the quarter ending on the 31st of December last, was 451, bringing produce of the estimated value of 646 Is. 6d.; —making in the year 1852,1792 canoes, with Produce to the amount of 3,564/. lis. 6d. At the adjacent Port of Onehunga, the arrivals had been, during the completed year, 324 canoes,' with Produce valued at 704 9s. 6d., to which is added in the Return the sum of 2191 17s. Od. as the value of wheat, flax, (Hour, &c. brought by the Natives from the Waikato in the cutter Harry Bluff y —the general total presenting a most encouraging view of the growth and prosperity of the coasting trade as carried on by the Natives in the neighbourhood of Auckland....After this follows a Return of the Number, Tonnage, and Crews of Coasters reported Inwards and Outwards during the Quarter, showing that 234 vessels, having a Tonnage of 5,225, brought from the coast, Grain, Oil, Timber, Bacon and Pork, Cattle, and a variety of other Imports, valued at 21,232/. 13s. Ilere we are again struck by the item " Gold Dust and Specimens of Quartz,—Bs ounces—6oZ." The Sale of Crown Lands is another and significant index to the improving state of the district. In addition to the Return of the Auction Sale on the 11th instant (with which we have already made our readers acquainted), we have another Return showing that, from the Ist of October to the 31st of December, the private sales by the Colonial Treasurer have realised within a trifle of 5,0001. The Return of Immigration and Emigralion for the Quarter also presents gratifying results, The Immigrants numbered 285,

—the Emigrants 122, showing on excess of Immigration over Emigration of 101. It is line that this was partly owing- to the arrival of a body of Enrolled Pensioners, but the number of Pensioners whom this very Gazette names as purchasers of land affords additional proof of the lac!—which is now well-known—that manv of ihiselasssoonshow themselvesindnstrions,intelligentnnd thriving settlers. On the Australian part of the account, there is a loss in I lie whole Quarter, there having been 112 Emigrants to New South Wales and Melbourne, and only 9o Immigrants to Auckland from those colonies; but even in the short interval since the 31st nil' several have returned ; many more may immediately l»c expected ; and there is little hazard in predicting that the current Quarter will show a most marked turning of the scale In this particular. We shall very briefly sum up such of the remaining contents of the Gazette as possess public interest. „-,•.. The number of Patients in the Colonial Hospital on the 31st of December, 1851, was 30; admitted in 1852, 127, (of whom 32 were Natives); Died, 14,(the majority of whom seem from the Report to have been beyond the reach of curative means when they were admitted); Discharged cured, 46; In Hospital on the 51st of December, 1852, 27. The External Patients of the Colonial Hospital were 59; the Patients in the Gaol Hospital, 51. The Commissioner of Crown Lands publishes the Lists of persons who have taken out Depasturing Licenses for the present year. The number of Licenses issned for the Hundred of Auckland is 79; for Onehunga, 07; for Panmure, 48; for Otahuhu, 94; for Howick, 65 ; and for Pupuke, 6.... The times and places of the Meetings of License holders for the election of Wardens are notified, the first being for the Hundred of Auckland, at Newmarket, on Saturday the sth of February....Persons who have not received their Depasturing Licenses outside Proclaimed Hundreds, or their Timber Licenses throughout the Province, are warned of the necessity of obtaining them at once. „ , r , The Special Meeting of Justices or the Peace to form a Jury List is to be held at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, February 1. The amount of Notes of the Colonial Bank of Issue at Auckland in circulation on the Bth instant, was 5,845/. : the Coin held by the same oflice on that day, -4,852/. The Ga ette concludes with the RegistrarGeneral's List of " Officiating Ministers" in the Province of New Ulster, which contains the names of 27 Ministers of ihe Church of England ; 20 of the Wesleyan Church; 2of the Primitive Metlndist Church; 1 of an Independent Church; and 10 of the Roman Catholic Church.