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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 957, 4 October 1854, Page 2

Address fromjMHr 1 . *#aifeelleld" to his : ConfctitttenW

, $O TH^ EtJEleTdRS'Ot THE HUTT.

A^al&V'l&fi September, 1854. r^ENTLEMENMHad it been possible *~* for me togoto Wellington by the present trip of the Steamer, I should have lost no time in begging you to call a public meeting, at which I might submit myself to examination by you as to the performance of my duties as your representative in the General Assembly. As it is> lAcsnI A csn only engage,to meet you in public on, nay return. It is iny< fixed purpose to leave ,;Au6kland by the 1 next' triji of the Steamer. {•hate contemplated addressing you by letter on the general state of public affairs as produced by the' two sessions of the Assembly ; but the incessant labours of the last week in the House of' Representatives — generally for about fourteen hours a-day — have left me without time to fulfil that intention. I therefore begleave to refer you to two letters .written by me, which I expect will appear in the Wellington Spectator. One of them was intended for a private "friend, and not for publication ; but I see no harm in giving publicity to it, as I have done by getting it printed in the New Zealander of this town. Copies of the paper which contains it, will be forwarded to many of you. The same number of the New Zealander contains a letter from Mr. Travers, a Nelson member of the House of Representatives, to which, I re-

quest your particular attention. t The second letter to which I allude, is addressed to Messrs. Renall and liawson Potts, as mmebers of the Hn'tt Committee of Compensation for. tlte Working Classes. It announces' the success, apparently inevitable, of our endeavour* to' obtain justice in that matter. You may naturally wonder why I did not bring that question before the Assembly. I was always on the watch, ready to do so, if a favorable opportunity had offered ; bat the banded majority of the Stttf aWocrAt'lntekl2s¥ in the House of Representatives < was never dissolved: f knew that' they would reject any resolntion in 'favor of the Uncompensated, which I might bring forward, whereby the cause would be damaged: so I waited' patiently for any opportunity that might arise. The one which turned up, has not been neglected. You now know the resnlts, so far as it cab. depend upon me. My part is done : it remains for you to do yours. My letter to Messrs. Renall and Potts shows. what the Uncompensate'd have to do in order fb get the work hap-

pily completed. With regard to the Waste Lands generally, you will see that the Governor refers the whole subject to the people ; not to the Provincial authorities now existing, who, were not chosen for that purpose, but to the electors themselves, who, - if- not satisfied with the present Superintendents and Councils, as fit to make and execute popular lavrs for disposing of the Waste Lands, will have the opportunity of electing others enjoying more of the public confidence. We used often to talk about the plains of the Wairarapa as being likely to be monopolized by the Squattocracy, instead of being laid, open to the classes whose labour on that fertile territory would soon double the wealth of our Province and the population of our Capital town. The contemplated iniquity has been stopped. It would surely have been consummated, if the Revans party had not, by their own greed of power,' lost possession of the General Government. All now depends on the people themselves. A fresh election for members' of the General Assembly is inevitable : Whether or not there shall be one for Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council, must be determined by the people, who need only ask in order to have. You may be certain that petitions to the Governor from any considerable number of the Electors, praying for a new election of Superintendent and Council, will be immediately granted by His Excellency. By his speeches at the opening and close of the Second' Session, he invites such petitions. I have seveYa'l bbjects in remaining here for another month : . to become well acquainted with the country, which has been greatly misrepresented in the South as not fit for colonization ; to contyly with a' request made to me;' that I will endeavour to assist the Auckland Provincial Government in framing Waste Land Regulations for opening the country to real settlement, and' for establishing a real emigration from the mother-country ; to take part in measures for giving effect to the declarations of the three branches of the Legislature in favor of Temperance ; and to* look after the Compensation matter, which, notwithstanding His Excellency's earnestness about it, might stagnate in. the old offices, if not kept moving by Your faithful and obedient Servant, E. G. WAKEFIELD.

Wellington Athepseuzn and Mechanics' Institute.

rys' Thursday Evening next, the sth i^ October,; a Lecturqwill.be delivered at this

Institute oy the ReV: J. Moir, " On Education," the necessity of a Public Provisioii for it ; and the principle on which such provision ought to T>e made. The Hall.will be open at $• past 7 o'clock j the Lecture to commence at 8' o'clock precisely. Admission to Members free, to nbnimembers, Is. each. • W..SEED, Hon. SeeSeptember 29, 1854.

Notice.

T)R. FRANCE, Surgeon and Accou- *^" chbur, late of the Norman Morison,[ta«y be consulted professionally at Mr. FLiewa's, Willis r streeCWellington. " Sepfember'29, 1854: ■

Private Tuition.

HHH'E Rev. Arthur Baker, M.A., WadA ham College,' Oxford, iiow resident in the distript of Jtangitikei., proposes t9 receive a limited number, of Pupils at Christmas next, for tuition in the several branches of a liberal education. For particulars as to terms, &c. r apply either to the advertizer or to any of the undermentioned parties, who have kindly consented to 1 act as'fefcWes.., R. B.Paui., Wm. Fox, Esq., I Wellington. Ma^ok Baker, ( & W. M.ißanna*tnb, Esq. J The Venerable Archdeacon Hadfield, Otaki. The Rev..R, TAfLO^'Watiganui. September 30, 1854.