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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1726, 24 September 1862, Page 2

BEST LONDON PORTE&, 9a. PER DOZEN, E. MOORE, QUEEN-STREET WHARF, Wine, Spirit, and Beer Merchant. N. B.—Families supplied with 18, ID, and 5-gaJU casks, at 3s. per gallon. FINE IRISH AND SCOTCH WHISKEY.

On Sale—sooo Dozen Allsop's No. 3 and Pale Ale,

ON SALE Watte'b, Bookseller, Queen-street, The Native Policy of New Zealand: SPEECH delivered in the House of Represents tives of New Zealand, August 6, 1862, BY JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD. 36 pp., demy Bvo.

Howick Van. A TWO HORSE VAN will leave the "Howick Arms," Howick, every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY MORNINGS, at 7 a. m for Auckland, and will leave the "Duke of Mart borough," Queen-street, Auckland, at 3 o'clock p.m. Same days for Howick. P. BRADY. Howick, 22nd September, 1862. AUCKLAND DISTRICT, 1.0.0.F.,M.U. THE OFFICERS and Members of the Auckland District, 1.0.0. F., M.U., are hereby notified that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of all the Lodges will be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, 29th inst., at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of considering the best means of aiding the sufferings of their fellow creatutcs, the Operatives in the Cotton Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire and other parts of England. EMELIUS LEROY, Prov. G.M. JOHN RATHBONE, Prov. D. G.M. JAS. DERROM, Prov. C. S. To the Electors of the Province of Auckland. GENTLEMEN,— After mature and anxious consideration, I have resolved to retire trom the office of Superintendent ot the Province of Auckland, to which you have now for the third time done me the honour to elect me.

The course of action taken by the Provincial Council in its last Session satisfied me that harmony between that Council and myself could not be ensured, and it was my intention to have summoned the Council immediately after my return from Wellington, to haTe invited them to pass an Electoral Districts Act, and to unite with me in a request to the Governor that the Council might be dissolved. Circumstances have led me to alter that determination, and to take, without delay, the course which I have now pursued, in order that my successor may be enabled to meet the Council before the close of the year, when the Appropriation Act expires. As many of you know, I was moved in the first instance to undertake the duties of the SuperinteDdency by the hope ot being able to carry into practical operation that scheme of dealing with the Waste Lands, for encouraging Immigration and promoting settlement in the Province, which it was the object of the political party with which I bad long been associated to develope." Under many difficulties, but with able assistance, I have now for six years laboured—not wholly without success—to make the advantages which this Province offered as a field for Immigration known in Great Britain, in the North Americ Provinces, and in Germany; and I have enjoyed t.. * g-jction of seeing a steadily growing stream of irrsrti »JpU of the best class setting in towards Auckland ijand the boundary of settlement extending itself safeiyX ind rapidly throughout the Northern portion of this Province. As long as the prospect remained of upholding a system, the value of which has been demonstrated, I was ready and willing to contend against any embarrassments with s'hich antagonism in the Provincial Council, or hostility on the part of the Government of the Colony might surround my position; I think, however, that I now see in the action of the General Assembly during its recent session—especially in its passing of the " Natives Land Act"—an insurmountable obstacle to the carrying on of the system ot colonization now in operation; and if I retained my present office I should feel myself conscientiously impelled at once to direct the Emigration Agents of the Province to discontinue the issue of Land Orders; for unless the Government can continue to acquire land from the Native owners, I fear that the blocks in the hands of the Provincial Government will shortly be insufficient to meet the demands of those to whom Land Orders have already been, and are still being issued at home. Opinions, I am aware, differ as to the probable! operation of the Natives' Land Bill upon immigration and settlement: my own conviction is, that its action will be destructive. In that view I hate, in my place in the Assembly, given the Bill such opposition as I was able; I am not, however, willing, acting upon my own conviction, to take a step so decided as that of putting a stop to the issue of Land Orders; but feeling that the work to which I have devoted myself is at an end, I resign into your hands the important trust with which you have honoured me; and with an enduring and grateful sense of your kindness and confidence, and of the valuable aid which I have received from my friends and supporters, I have the honour to subscribe myself, Gentlemen, Your obedient humble servant, J. WILLIAMSON. Auckland, Sept. 24th, 1862.