The New-Zealander.
AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1853.
Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy Country's Thy God's, and Truth's.
The Mary Catherine and the Simlah, both from England, arrived :n our harbour yesterday, the former having sailed on the 9th and the latter on the 19th February. Thev bring' welcome imporlalions of passengers and merchandize, but do not add largely to our previous store of home news. We had already been put in possession, by way of Sydney and Melbourne, of English intelligence to the middle of February ; and, moreover, although we have now received a number of journals, the principal part of our regular files are still wanting, having, wefpresume, been forwarded bx the Australian Company's Koyal Mail Steamers, our excellent London News Agent, Mr. W. H. Smith, no doubt thinking, in the innocence of his heart, that he was doing the very best in his power for our interests, by choosing that line of communication—whereas, as we and many others know to our cost, it has hitherto proved the most tardy and unsatisfactory of all we have yet experienced: and to say that, is to say not a little of postal delays and disappointments. The bulk of our ordinary files since the end of October, remains still due! From (he papers which have come to hand, however, we are enabled to gather the following not uninteresting news respecting our own colony Tin 5 ; anxiously looked-for "Canterbury Audit" had at length taken place, and the results had been officially published. The report of the Government Auditor, Mr. H. Wedgwood,—though evidently drawn up with a disposition to deal as leniently with the Association as the facts permitted—fix.es irrevocably upon that Body one of the most serious charges preferred against it, viz., the misappropriation to secular purposes of the funds which it was pledged to apply lo ecclesiastical and educational objects, and in the words of the Times (in an article of pungent severity, which we shall lake an early opportunity of transferring to our columns) "concealing this fraud on the sanctuary by a nominal sale to the Church of their own unsaleable land at its imaginary price." Lord Lyttelton—whose involvement, by crafty schemers, such as Mr. Gibbon Wakefield, in these disreputable transactions, we cannot contemplate without great regret—had written a letter lo the Times, in which, amidst laboured attempts to extenuate the misconduct of the Association, lie felt bound to admit, "The Report is by no means so favourable as I fully expected it to be." In commenting on this, the Times says (with reference lo a former communication from his Lordship), 'We cannot conceive how, with the full consciousness of these fads, Lord Lyttelton could have addressed to us the abrupt and categorical denial with which he met our charges. Those charges he no longer denies, but seeks to extenuate." We infer that, bv some means, the debt to the New Zealand Company, which the Association enendeavoured to repudiate had at length been paid, as the Australianand New Zealand Gazelle 0? ten. 20 says, "the New Zealand Company has now received the full sum of £25,000 in respect of land sold in the Canterbury settlement, so that they can no longer be stumbling blocks in the way of its prosperity. From this time forward, emigrants will be able to purchase land in Canterbury at whatever price the Central Legislature may resolve on." As respects the general position of the Association at present, the same journal observes,—" Notwithstanding that the landselling powers of the Canterbury Association have ceased, and happily so, thev still continue a corporation : their charter being unrevoked, and their propertv being still vested in them." The writer"goes on to anticipate the possibility of their being now more useful than before in promoting emigration ; but we suspect that very few intelligent emigrants will have anything lo do with them alter the exposure thai has been made of their past proceedings. The case will not be improved on their behalf when the accounts of Mr. Sewell's movements as their representative in the colony shall have reached England. The Cresswcll was advertised to sail for Auckland and New Plymouth in March; and the Cornwall (one of Messrs. Monevand Wigram's vessels) and one of Messrs. Willis's ships were both to sail for the Southern Settlements in the same month The news of Messrs. King's discovery of gold at Coromandel had reached England. Ihe Australian and New Zealand Gazette, referring i 0 the intelligence, remarks, "-wfc must say thai it carries with it every appearance of credibility, though we shall be sorry it New Zealand is to be afflicted with a gold curse, which will materially have the effect of chedtinglbat which is of infinitely greater importance, viz.—the stead v pursuits of social industry."
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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 747, 11 June 1853, Page 2
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