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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 741, 21 May 1853, Page 4

TO TilE ELECTORS Ob' THE BAY OF ISLANDS ELECTORAL DISTRICT. f"' ENTLEMEN, —We are again called V J upon to enrol our names in an electoral j list. Not, indeed, as lonnerly for the election of one member of a Provincial Council, but for the threefold purpose of recording our votes for a Superintendent of the Northern Province; of electing two members to serve in the Provincial Council at Auckland; and one member to represent the Ray of Islands district in a central assembly or congress, to meet most probably at Wellington, if indeed such an assembly should ever meet at all. With the Central Assembly I shall have nothing to do. I fully agree in the following observations with which Sir George Grey sums up a detail of the difficulties which would impede the establishment of a Central Legislature for the New Zealand Colonies, in a despatch, dated 30th August, 1851, paragraph 29, “•Any attempt therefore to form a general Legislature for such a group of colonies, which should at present annually or even frequently (a singular specification of lime this by the way) assemble, and winch should be so composed as fairly to represent the various interests of all parts of this country, must therefore I think fail.” A similar observation, applied to the administrative functions of the Government, would have tenfold force. I myself have had oc- j casion to correspond v.iih the Government; on a question of a purely local character, i since Sir George Grey established himself in I Wellington. With a competent authority at Auckland, this correspondence might have been brought to a close in three or four weeks. With Sir George Grey at Wellington it extended over ten and a half months. And thus it will ever he while the nominal authority in Auckland is overruled by an extraneous authority at Wellington. I Gentlemen, I ofermyself for your sulfrages | as a Candidate to represent this district in the Provincial Council of Auckland. It is true that the powers of that Council are limited, and that the. exercise of those powers is liable to be annulled by an | extraneous authority, representing a large majority of separate or rival interests. But the Provincial Council, will at least be a legitimate embodiment of the Public opinion of the Northern Province; and I have no doubt whatever, that it will unanimously join in representing to the Queen and Parliament that the constitution which has been elaborated for ns with so much ingenuity, is impracticable for good, and only capable of producing irritation and disgust, that the chief questions which Sir George Grey refers to as making desirable the centralization of the powers of Government in the face of such obstacles as he enumerates—Such, for instance, as native I questions, do in truth make it essential to the public safely, that there should heeonstantly present in the Northern Province, an authority competent to deal with and settle such questions on the instant. That the only way in short, to obviate insurmountable difficulties, and to de;d fairly with conflicting and irreeoncileable interests, is to constitute the Northern Province a seperatc and independent colony. When these representations shall he made by the Provincial Council, in the simplicity and straightforwardness of truth to the Queen and Parliament; and when it is moreover shown that the local Revenues of the Northern Province are sufficient to maintain a Government suitable to its condition and circumstances, I cannot imagine that we shall be so unreasonably dealt with as to be asked to leave our homes for the purpose of interfering with the concerns of our neighbours in -which we have no interest whatever, and with whom we have no ! thing in common, or to have our own local affairs subjected to the dictation of persons who have no knowledge of our circumstances nor interest in our wellbeing. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant. James Busby. Victoria, Bay of Islands, I2lb April, 1853. CHARTS. JUST received, ex Cashmere , Admiralty CHARTS of the following Harbours on the East Coast of New Zealand : Bay of Islands Lam islon Bay Wangaroa Mongonui Wangaruru Tut nka ka Wangarei, and Kuwait. Also, General Charts of the South Pacific. J. Williamson, Stationer, etc. FOB SALE. \ GOOD FARM, near Auckland, with - a House and improvements. Apply at the New Zealander Office. May 16, 1853. CLEARING AND PLOUGHING. npENDERS are required for Clearing and Ploughing One Hundred Acres of Land at the OK UR A.—Apply to James Macky. Auckland May 9, 1853. FOR SALE. ACRES OF LAND, near Mount Albert, twenty of which is fenced in. If not sold before die 20th of June, it will he put up to Auction. For particulars apply to Mr. William McGarvey, Queen-street, Auckland, or on the farm to the proprietor, Francis Hamilton. May 17, 1853. MONEY in sums as required, on undeniable security. ~ Apply to A. W. Hansard.