NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Saturday, December 3, 1853.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 870, 3 December 1853, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Saturday, December 3, 1853.

By the Overland Mail we have received Auckland papers to the 29th October, The Council had continued its sittings a fortnight; the only two measures proceeded with were an Interpretation Bill, and a Bill for the Protection of ForeignShipping and the punishment of foreign, seamen for desertion. Several motions, had been made relative to locs affairs, and improvements which had been referred to committees, among "oijher sub-, jects referred to a committee to inquire into and "report on we -notice the -appointment of officers of the Provincial Government with the duties required, and salaries to be attached to the office. No reference had been made in the Council to the appointment of an Ex ecutive Council, nor does it appear, that any member fias hitherto acted as representing %he Superintendent in the Coun « cil. - A motion made by Mr. Busby for the adoption, of an address to the Queen and!, both Houses of Parliament praying forthe separation of the Province of Auckxfond, from ' the other Provinces of New Zealand, and that it be constituted into, a separate colony under a Governor or Lieutenant-Governor had been agreed tq

unant&biisly. The chiefr argument ur-f, ged V, the hon. r Aembfer in support of; his motion was that, from its. central 'and 1 convenient position Wellington would in: the opinion of impartial persons be con-! sidered to be best fitted- for tire Capital of New Zealand. We admit the • full' force of the argument but do not see in it any reason for the dismemberment of the colony, and we cannot suppose that' the proposition will t>e entertained for a> moment by the Home Government. The Government Brig, it is reported, was employed in taking troops ,to the, Bay of, Islands ; some time would"there-, fore elapse before its return-to Welling-, ton. ' " The Taranaki Herald contains the Draft of a Memorial to the Governor, in; course of signature in that praying him to- delegate to the, Superintendent il authority ta purchase land irom the Natives, and t to," assent to any measure passed, by .the General Assembly conferring the management" of the Waste Lands on the Superintendent* and ; Provincial Council, also «t Memorial to the House of Representatives praying for the passing of some measure . to a similar effect. A circular despatch from the Civil Secretary is also punished authorising the Superintendent ' of the Province "to undertake surveys upon a laTger scale than the receipt of- the Land Fund would at the time justify "the General Government in undertaking," with a view to encourage the occupation of the land; the expense of such "surveys to be defrayed by the Provincial Government.

We have extracted from the • Nelson Examiner the observations of Dr. Monro in the Nelson Provincial Council, referring to, the Superintendent's speech, and the Provincial Councils; to which we adverted on a former occasion. We think the opinions and views expressed by the hon. member with regard to the character and functions of those bodies for 'the most part forcible and just, and that these views mightbe circulated with advantage in this Province.

By a letter from Wanganui we learn that the body of Dr. Chamberlain who was unfortunately drowned in the Rangitiki a short time since, was .found the week before last, and buried by the natives of that place. The first number of a new paper, called the Wanganui Record, has' recently been published at Wanganui : it is printed on one side of half a sheet of foolscap, and may be accepted, among other signs, of the growing importance of that flourishing settlement. -