The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 780, 5 October 1853, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 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 Overland Mail, which arrived on Monday, has placed us in possession of the Taranaki Herald to the 21 st nit., but no papers or letters whatever from Wellington have been received by it. That a mail was despatched we know from the fact that the journals to the 3rd ult. had reached New Plymouth; but we arc left to conjecture whether the mail for Auckland was sent from Wellington and was kepi back through some mismanagement or carelessness on the way, or whether it was not in the first instance forwarded from that town. That there has been negligence in some quartcradmitsofnodoubt; and—considering that our means of communication with the other Settlements are at best but defective and unsatisfactory—we certainly think that no such case as the present should be permitted to pass over without inquiry, so as that the blame may be laid wherever it is fairly due, and that every practicable step may be taken to prevent the repitiiion of disappointments which are always annoying, and may sometimes be productive of both public inconvenience and private injury. The. Herald gives a few extracts from the Wellington papers, which we transfer to our columns. It will be seen that the Go-vernor-contrary to the expectation generally entertained respecting the route by which he would proceed—had returned to Wellington oil the oist August,—after having succeeded, by the instrumentality of Mr. McLean, in purchasing from the Natives a very large and valuable tract of land at the Wairarapa Valley. Of His Excellency’s intentions as to his further movements there is no information; but there appeal’s no reason to doubt that his stay in Wellington would be short, and that we may still confidently anticipate his speedy arrival here. The only election for the Wellington Provincial Council which remained pending at our previous dales—that for the Wanganui and llangitikei districts—had terminated in the return of Messrs. 11. S. Harrison and W. Walt We learn also that Mr. Fitzgerald bad been elected the member of the House of Representatives for the Town of Lyttelton, by a majority of ten over Mr. Dampier. The Provincial Council of New Plymouth met on the 1 Gilt of last month,—thus being the first of live Councils under the New Constitution Act to assemble for despatch of business. The comparatively narrow limits of the Province rendered its being soon called together a matter of no great difficulty. We copy the Opening Address of the Superintendent, which, however, offers little or no matter for comment. His Honor expresses his grateful appreciation of the liberality of the Constitution Act, and pays a just tribute to Sir George Grey’s share in rendering it so liberal,—adding that “ His Excellency’s provisional arrangements with regard to the General Revenue and Land Fund, for enabling the Provincial Government effectively to enter on its duties, are framed on the same liberal basis.” After some further remarks on the means of promoting the progressive prosperity of the Province which His Excellency’s despatches have placed within reach of the Council, he adverts to the necessity of providing some more permanent accommodation for the meetings than the Court House (w here they are now held) can afford, and concludes with one of those sentences of generality with which the readers of such “Speeches” are familiar. The only business as yet transacted by the Council had been the choice of Mr, Isaac Newton Walt as Speaker, and the preparation of a code of “standing orders,” the particulars of which, however, are not given in the report of our contemporary.