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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 819, 8 June 1853, Page 2

To Sawyers, Timber Contractors, and Others.

"VTOTICE is hereby given by the Un •*•* der&igned, that they will prosecute any person or persons cutting, falling, or removing Timber from .the undermentioned Lands without a written authority from themselves :—: — Kinapore District, Nos. 13, 16, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, and 34. Porirua District, Nos. 37, 39, 43, 46, 47. 52, 54, 6h 101, 108. Karori District, Nos. 37. 40, 45, 51. Valley, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 14, 26. And they further give notice, that Contractors and Purchasers of such Timber carried away from the above Sections will be held also liable for the damage done to the Property. Wm. BOWLER, SON, & CO. Lambton-quay, Wellington, * May 11, 1853.

Lost, ON TUESDAY, THE 2 4th MAY,

A BLACK and White Newfoundland •**■ DOG, about 9 months old. The Dog was last seen on Lambton-quay ; and any person returning him to the undersigned will be rewarded. J. C. RAYMOND. Union Bank.of Australia, June 1, 1853.

Land for Disposal.

XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,That ■^ the Sections of Land described below, being the property of Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, are intended for sale or letting on lease with a purchasing clause. Offers or applications in writing for such sections, or parts thereof, will be received by the undersigned at their office until the afternoon of Wednesday, the Bth June next ; and on the following Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, being the 15th, 16th, and 1 7th June, Mr. Wakefield will remain at home (in the Karori Road) from 10 till 3 o'clock, for the purpose of seeing applicants who may wish to converse with him, and of answering their applications. It is requested that every application may exactly describe the land applied for, together with full particulars as to proposed amount of rent, duration of lease, amount of purchase-money to be inserted in purchasing clause, or amount in ready money for immediate purchase. ,In cases of lease with .purchasing clause, conditions for insuring actual settlement will form part of every contract that may be entered into. As a general rule, in cases where land is already occupied, applications by j present occupiers for purchase, whether immediate or deferred, will receive the most favourable consideration. x But this notice is not intended to imply, that the highest or any other offer will in any case be necessarily accepted. 6. Terawiti 10. Harbour District 76. Lower Hutt 17. Do. 77. Do. 18. Do. 6. Hut* 7. Horokiwi Valley J 15. Do. 26. 00, 3&. Do. 33. Karori 43. Do. . 14. Kinapori 3. Makara v -, 52. Porirua 76. Ohariu , 47. Do. 82., Do. Wm. BOWLER, SON, & Co. i Lambton Quay, 24th May, 1853.

(ADVERTISEMENT.)

To the Electors of the City of Wellington.

T?ELLOW-COLONISTS,—I beg to -*- offer myself as a Candidate for the honor of representing you, under the New Constitution, both in the House of "Representatives and in the Wellington Provincial Council. Having resided amongst you from almost the very foundation of the Colony, and taken an active part in the .discussion of all public questions, my opinions are, I trust, so well known as almost to render it unnecessary to repeat them in my present address. But as a new era has commenced for New Zealand, and as the good government of the country will, for the future, entirely depend upon the people themselves, it is perhaps necessary, in order to prevent any future misunderstanding between electors and elected, that all those who aspire to the honor of being Representatives should again place upon record the opinions they entertain upon the principal subjects which are likely to come before the newly created Legislature. I think we have good reason to congratulate ourselves upon having obtained a measure of constitutional freedom greatly superior to that possessed by any British colony in the South Seas ; and I conceive that our warmest thanks are due, both to the Colonial Minister who conferred so great a boon upon us, and also to those friends without whose advice and support Sir John Pakington would scarcely have undei taken, so soon after his accession to office, the grave responsibility of framing and carrying through Parliament a Constitutional Act embodying principles so much in advance of those contained in any constitution yet granted to the Australian Colonies". But however liberal and satisfactory, in all its main details, the Constitution may be, the amount of benefit to be derived from it, will in a great measure depend upon the manner and the spirit in which it is worked and carried out. The Act itself clearly establishes the system of responsible government. Should therefore any attempt (which I scarcely anticipate) be made to conduct the Government, whether General or Provincial, by an irresponsible Executive, I hold that it will be the duty of your Represen- ' tatives strenuously to oppose it, and never to rest satisfied until all the chief Executive offices are filled by men enjoying their confidence and support : for an irresponsible ministry is wholly incompatible .with a representative legislature. One of the best features of the Act is, that it gives us the power to remedy its defects ; and were it not for this power of altering and amending, the Constitution would not perhaps deserve all the encomiums which have been I passed upon it. I The most material point to be amended is the Constitution of the Legislative Council, or Upper Chamber of the General Assembly. Under the Act, it is ' to consist entirely of nominees of the Crown, appointed for life.