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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 753, 2 July 1853, Page 2

A Government Gazette was issued yesterday evening containing the anticipated official announcements of the days on which the Elections for members of the Provincial Council and of the Representative Assembly will respectively be held. As we transfer the whole of these announcements to our columns, it is unnecessary for us to recapitulate here the several dales of nomination and polling: it may suffice to remark that the Elections for the Provincial Council are generally to lake place in this present month of July; and those for the House of Representatives in August. The Elections for the Provincial Council come first in order of lime then, and it necessarily follows that the bringing forward of suitable candidates for that Body should have immediate attention. We earnestly hope that in the choice, which so closely affects our local interests, the electors will be guided by a regard to the real, practical, advantage of the community, which will rise paramount to every consideration of psrty or personal attachment. The history of our miss-managed Corporation has taught me public a lesson which may well render them more cautious in future, The matters which will properly come under the centre of the Provincial Council have a du'CCtbear* ing upon home interests, which will cause*" proceedings to be sooner felt, whether ler good or evil, than even the Laics whicbm General Assembly may pass. And mdecu, before the General Assembly shall meet, 8 inconsiderable portion of its powers—met; ding especially the most valuable power disposing of the Land 1 placed in the hands of the Provincial Conn* This can be done, however, we appreoe , i only by the Governor’s delegating the req site authority to the Council, and it see most probable that His Excellency * be guided in the decision whether he w» delegate it or not, by a consideration ° L fitness of the persons of whom the v® . may be composed to understand an( Lr®j ave excrcisesuch important functions. amongst us an ample supply of men - qualified for the service; and it sl . l °u. the business of the electors, to invite to come forward; some have already proposed, and, we must lake add, those on whom any eonsm number of the Electors may fix asdesn g Representatives, should notpermit any ® j f of a private nature to interfere with performance of what — especially existing circumstances—is the complying with the call made up° a ye ! and aiding the Province in l baton ward ment which now r seems its provid destiny.