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Otago Daily Times, Issue 238, 24 September 1862, Page 5

Gentlemen op the House of Represekta-

TIVK3, — I thank you for the ample supplies you have voted for the Public Service of the Colony. The increase which you liave inauo in the salaries of the Judges, | will tend to maintain the independence and reputa- i tion ol the Bench, by helping to secure a succession ' of men ot high attainments and character to occupy it. There is no object to which the public funds can i be more worthily devoted, than the maintenance ol! the dignity, and the social as well as the intellectual elevation of the chief administrators ot the law. i It is particularly incumbent on me to acknowledge the liberality of your contributions for the benefit of the Natives. All the assistance in your power to give towards the success cf the experiment of introducing Civil Institutions among tueoi you have freely bestow? d, in voting the whole of the amount which was asked to meet the expenses of that experiment. You have further cons-ented to impose upon the future resources of the colony, the burden of a loan for a large sum of money to be expended in defraying past liabilities in remedying existing evils, and in providing for future exigencies, resulting from the relations betweeu the Government and the natives. These are large liabilities to be uudertaken by so young a colony- and prove the sincerity of your desire for the welfare of those on whose behalf you undertake them.

I think it due to the members representing the Middle Island; especially to acknowledge the public spint nd sympathy with their Northern fellow colo-

nists, which they have shown in clieerfully taking so large a share of Uie burdens arisins front political troubles peculiarly affecting the Northern Island, and »rom the j-rmova} ol such troubles the principal tliey can reap, will be such as most necessarily spring from the prosperity and welfare of theae important islands regarded as a whole. .. ■ ■

It gives me great gratification to observe that .you Pr°l Jf«,. s? aPP roPriate so'coasiderable a sum to the re-estabh^hment of the settlement .of Taranaki. and the re-mstateiuent on their lands of those settlers who so bravely contended agiunst, and have endund with bo much fortitude, the various calamaties whicli have befallen them. It will be mv earnest endeavour to cliect these objects wita the least possible delay. I dfsire yon to accept my assurance that the large sains thus to be placed at my disposal a3 the contribution of the colouy towards the settlement of the Native question, shall be expended with the utmost regard to economy, and in accordance -with yonr views iv supplying them. Honorable Gextx-emeh akd Qbnti.emeh,^ The Act for the Management of the Gold Fields of the Co'ony, -will, it may bo hoped, remedy many defects in the existing laws relating to this subject, and materially assist in the orderly and successful deve'opniect of the great mineral wealth of these Islands. The Art. far incasing tie number of memlK-rs representing the Sou •hern jwrtionof the Middle Island, will secure for it an iiiflueace in the Legislature more in accordance with its rank and importance as a coiap ;rent part of the Colony. In the meantime, it will be the object and desire of the Government to give ti it-* interests, on all occasions, that anxiou3 attention to which its rapid increase in wealth and population justly entitles it. ' , I have assented v/ith pleasure to various* practical nß'asufts parsed by vo*i, affecting the adrafcisstration of justice, and the commercial interests of the country.

I trust that, nn<ler Divine Providence, these measure* ami all our efforts may tend to the eoraplete reestablisbment of peace, and to assure the prosperitj ol all classes of her Majesty's subjects in the colony. I now declare thw Asierably to stand prorogued to the 31st da? of Deeernber next

The Waxoanui Steam Navioatios Cojipaxy.— Wo have scarcely had time to congratulate ourselves oa the fornnuicii and first Miccessful operations of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Compnny, '.vhea vs\; are called upon to announce the ushering into existenoe of a nevr schema of a kindred nature, bnt wMi local aims and objecU,—we allude to ihat otJier ?f«>.ta Navigation Company, so formed in \\ anganni. hi the view oi an Increasing trade there, theproir.r«t*rgof the undertaking propose to purchase aecrew si earner of 29i> tons suitali'.e, not only for ordinary mjuii-L'flic.'its, in tbe conveyance of produce and goo-Js Unvcen that place and Welltnjrtou, bat also specisl'v fitted up for the trau<it of cattle. The capital consists oi £10,000.5u lOOOslu-resof jEJOeaeh, 813 of whirh, a&our lattst advice, had been subscribwl for. Oae imjKlrtol and fifiy of tho* tuares Jiave been' reserved lor >> dJjngton, eighty of wliich are already taken up am* tac rmuinb- 70 willin all probability be shortly £übscnb»l Ur.—lndejwitdent, September 18. - The Prevalent Dibouder.—There cannot b" ffiven a better illustration of the virulence of the '•gold fever" than the lecord of the iart, that when the fir»t news of tlw *;igiity-seven pounds weight of gold having bien <lisr overfed, arrived in Dunedia, tht-r«! vrnsa telf^raplric message sent to Port Chalmers just pre vivas to tie departure of a steraraer for Melbourne, and that upon the arrival or tJiat news there the s.s. Gotheuburji was at once filled up with pAvsengvr.* for Ouvw, realty before the matter liad assjiuitil any otber aspetrt than t*r»at oi a meix-ly fljing mraor, ami by the last accounts, other vessels were fast filiiirix up for the suine destination.— lwleT,en4cnt, beptt-iDb-.-r 18.