The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 740, 18 May 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1853.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at, he thy Country’s, Thy God’s, and Truth's.

We are sure il is wholly unnecessary lhal we should invite the best attention of our readers to the report of an interview had yesterday by several of the elected members of the late Provincial Council of New Ulster with His Excellency Sir George Grey, which will be found in another part of our present number: for the importance of the subjects brought under consideration, and the deeply gratifying character of the result, will have an interest for our community generally, which will not need to be quickened by any comments of ours. It w ill be seen that llis Excellency, both in his formal reply to the Address, and in his remarks in the conversation which ensued, afforded the most complete refutation of the opinion, which had gained considerable ground, that he was friendly to the imposition of the New Zealand Company’s debt upon the Land Fund of the Northern districts it appears, indeed, that so far from being so, he had opposed that injustice in his own despatches, and by the expression of concurrence with which he forwarded to the Secretary of State the earnest remonstrance on the subject which was some lime since adoplcd by Lieut.-Gov-ernor Wynyard and the Executive Council of this Province; —that, moreover, he had practically interposed the most formidable of all obstacles to the actual payment of the claim—and one which only His Excellency himself could interpose—by retaining up to this hour in the Treasury Chest //err, a sum of nine thousand pounds, which he might, and perhaps technically should, have forwarded towards the liquidation of the Company’sdemand;—and that he now pledges himself to follow out this wise and just policy by still retaining in the Province that portion of the proceeds of the Land Sales which, according to to the existing arrangements, the Company might claim, until (and this is obviously all he can pledge himself for) the result of the representations made by our Province to the Home Government and the Parliament are ascertained. More than this it would have been very unreasonable to look for; and it is with the liveliest satisfaction we congratulate our fellow-settlers in the North on the assurance they uow r possess that, in to the infliction of the Company’s debt by all legitimate means, they will have the cooperation of so powerful an ally as His Excellency,—whose co-operation indeed it is now r evident was actually afforded to them even when, under mistaken views—leading to erroneous conclusions, —many of them formed a contrary opinion of Ins proceedings. Of the utmost local interest also is the assurance that steps will be forthwith taken for the re-building of the Government House in Auckland, —an object which has been so strongly desired by all classes and parties iu our commuuitv.

These are popular measures—in the best and highest sense of the term ; and we cannot conclude these remarks—which to-day are necessarily brief—without observing that the members of the late Provincial Council, who

took the initiative in Hie matter, are entitled lo the thanks of the people having brought these subjects before the Governor so as lo enable His Excellency, in a manner consistent with official propriety, lo afford this satisfactory evidence of his real solicitude to promote the well-being and advancement of the Auckland Province.