The New-Zealander. DAILY. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1865.

New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2393, 1 April 1865, Page 2

The New-Zealander. DAILY.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1865.

Be Just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country a. Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

Is the Provincial Council yesterday, Mr. King carried a motion for obtaining copies of all documents and correspondence between H. L. Lawler, Esq., Gold Fields Commissioner, and the Great' Independent Gold Mining Company. Mr. McGee moved a resolution for increasing the pay of the Auckland Police Force which was carried. On the motion of Mr. McGee it was resolved after some discussion the house on its rising do adjourn until Thursday next. The further consideration of the Estimates was adjourned on the motion of Mr Carleton ; until the next sitting day. The Empowering Bill was read a second time, and partially considered in Committee, Mr, Carleton laid upon the table further correspondence from Captain Daldy. Message No. 90 was received from his Honor the Superintendent enclosing correspondence relative to the prosecution of the breakwater and other harbor works, and likewise Message No. 91, enclosing thecopy of a letter received from Messrs. P. N. Russell and Co., of Sydney, reporting the result of experiments made for the purpose of ascertaining the quality of the Kawa Kawa coal. Both these messages, with their enclosures, were ordered to be printed. The City Board Act Amendment Bill was recommitted on the me. ion of Mr. Carleton. On Clause 3 being proposed, Mr, Wynn warned the Council that if the bill were passed in its present shape, it would be disallowed. The question being then put, the clause was negatived on the voices, and the Chairman reported progress. The Industrial School Act Repeal Bill was passed through all its remaining stages. On Mr. Harrop moving that the Report of the Slaughter House Committee be adopted, Mr. Foley moved as an amendment that its adoption be postponed until after the report with the evidence accompanying it had been printed. After some discussion the amendment was carried. The House then adjourned until Thursday next at the usual hour.

The townspeople of Onehunga are to be congratulated upon the unanimity with which they have declared in favor of the bill which has been introduced into the Provincial Council for ihe purpose of enabling them to deal with their harbor endowments, and to envelope to the utmost the magnificent resources which nature has placed at their disposal. Whatever concerns the progress and prosperity of Onehunga and its harbor is as much a matter of public interest as anything that relates to the City of Auckland or the Waitemata, and we are glad to see that there is a growing tendency to regard the matter in that light. In former days when Onehunga was nothing more than a pensioner settlement, and when it was realy a journey to get from the eastern to the western harbor, it was perhaps natural and inevitable" that there should exist some feeling of rivalry and jealousy between the two ports. It is difficult in the early days of a settlement to take a comprehensive view of things ; that which is small, but placed close to the eye, obscures the view of that which is large, but set at a distance, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that two places should in their infancy consider themselves rivals, yet discover after a time that their interests are so bound up together that whatever tends to the advancement of the one must be a matter ol the deepest interest to the other.

The age of jealousy between Auckland and Onehunga is gone, never to return, and henceforth they must be regarded as one and indivisible. If there still remains any conflict of individual interests in regard to the material advancement of either port, this is a matter of such perfect insignidcance when compared with the importance of securing the utmost possible development of each, as to deserve no consideration. Those who had anything of the prophetic eye, predicted years ago that Auckland and Onehunga must eventually become one town, and every year that has passed has done something to realise this expectation. Year by year Auckland is enlarging her suburbs, and with insatiable grasp is continually seizing upon whatever fresh ground is within her reach. The same kind of process is going on upon the other side also, and Onehunga forms the nucleus from which spreads a new and independent growth. The multiplication of houses along the road between the two ports is a certain index of the general tendency and the sooner that tendency becomes familiar to our minds so that we may believe in it and act upon it, the better. The boast of Auckland with which she has always confronted the other capitals of the New Zealand Provinces, is that she has two harbors, and in right of this gift she has claimed as her own the maritime sovereignty .of the Colony. So that, whatever trifling difference of interests may occasionally arise between the two places, it is obvious as regards the aspect which Auckland is to assume towards the rest of the Colony, it is necessary for her to consider Onehunga as part and parcel of herself. So united, and with the certain growth of the coming years, we may safely predict that the isthmus which divides the waters of

the Waitemata from thosa of the Manukau will be occupied by a city unsurpassed for importance and magnificence in the Southern hemisphere. The Onehunga Improvements Bill, if it passes the Provincial Council in the shape in which it has been approved by the inhabitants, will put into their hands almost indefinite powers of improving their harbor. The plan which has already been devised, and which it is hoped may be carried ont at no very distant time, is one which will give an immense impetus to the shipping trade of the western port. This plan is to continue the railway from the present proposed terminus across the bay to the point known as the Bluff, where vessels may discharge their cargo in deep water. The railway embankment would enclose a tidal basin, to which there would be access by a swinging bridge, and within which smaller craft might lie. This is a scheme which if fairly carried out will make the port of Onehunga, what it ought to be, for, as was pointed out at the public meeting, it is iiot the bar which forms the obstacle to the commerce of the port, but the want of sufficient accommodation for the discharge and removal of cargo.