ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 752, 29 June 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To (he Editor of (he New-Zealanber. Sir,— Having been made acquainted that a report had been circulated at Onehunga, by some of Mr. William Brown’s parly, to the effect that u at one of Colonel Wynyard s balls Bishop Pompallier received an insult at the hands of Bishop Selwyn, and that Colonel Wynyard laughed at the mailer as at a joke,” and believing (his to he without the slightest foundation we immediately waited upon Bishop Pompallier, who stigmatized the report as an nllcr fabrication. We cannot but express our indignation at the circulation of so base a mis-statement (intended, wc suppose, as an election manoeuvre) grossly to mislead our follow Catholics. Hugh Coolaiiax. Patrick Doxovan. Auckland, June 28(h, 1805. To (lie Editor of the New-Zealaxder, Sir, —Will you permit me through your columns to address a few words to my fellow electors at litis most important crisis. Fellow Colonists— The nomination is past, and the day of election drawelh nigh —it will then he for yon, men of the Province of Auckland, to stamp the character of our onward movement for years to come. There tire two Candidates before ns, and the question nowis not —who amongst ns is most fitting for the office of Superintendent, but which of the two will you choose. The one seeks the office—the other has been sought out, and urged to allow himself to be pul in nomination that be may serve yon. It is attempted to make light of this fact, hut it is a fact —think then, men of the Province of Auckland, and try if you cannot discover whether it may not he possible that the one has a personal motive, which you cannot attribute to the oilier who is in the field at the earnest request of five hundred, electors. Men of the Province of Auckland, you have had recent prosperity—he careful that you do not check it. The prospect is opening up brighter and brighter by the promulgation of the late Land Regulations —see that you do not obscure it by the interposition of one whose elevation to the Snpcrintcndcney will arouse suspicions and create jealousies as to the future management of the Waste Lands of the Crown. Northmen of New Zealand, the power over these lands will (under the Constitution) fall into the hands of the General Assembly, who may invest that power in the Councils of the various Provinces. Is it likely they will surrender it to a Council at whose head is one who may he supposed to have a deeper commercial and personal interest in such a measure than any man in the colony? will the cases of Messrs. Reid and Chisholm not rise upbefore their minds in unmistakcablereality, and furnish the members from the South with arguments to withhold that power that they may use it to their own local advantage. Rut if they should not—if they should have as much faith in him as yon will shew if you elect him Superintendent, depend upon it, Sir George Grey who knows him well will not. He will withhold his consent and justify himself to (lie home authorities by a reference to New Zealand's recent history. Do not allow yourselves to bo carried away by (lie averment, that he would in such a case he neglecting the duty he owes to the land over which he is deputed to rule, lie would not stand alone in the advocacy of the justification of his conduct. Many whose interests arc hound up in New Zealand would unite heart and hand with him in beseeching the home government to confirm his disallowance of any ordinance which would put it into the power of one in whom they mauled confidence , to secure to himself and friends by preconcerted arrangements a large share of those advantages to which all are equally entitled, and to all of lohom therefore should he afforded equal opportunity. Think of this, Men of the Northern Province, and try Colonel Wynyard’s fitness by this lest. He is no land speculator on his own account, and is besides free from all commercial relations which may interfere with your advancement, and can administer the affairs of the Province in a liberal and impartial spirit. Think of it too working men who are earnestly struggling to secure small freeholds for yourselves and children. You know that Sir George Grey has, within the last few weeks, placed it upon record, that ho will so administer the Land Regulations as to have a special view to the interests and convenience of those who are possessed of limited means. Think of this working men, and consider whether you may not by your vole upon this occasion so cmharass the Governor’s position as regards the Land Regulations, that the realization of your cherished hopes may again be put off to the distant future. Men of the Province of Auckland, this if to you a vital question. The interests os yourselves, your wives, your children, are all involved in it. It is emphatically your own question. What to you is Colonel Wynyard or Mr. Brown ? The one. who. Lorn his position, from his liberality, from his disinterestedness, will best give effect to your withes is the candidate for yon, and, in present circumstances that candidate is Lieut.Colonel Wynyard. O.xc Or Younfir.r.vLSV (For continuum, n. e ' { y.u .(an.