The New Zealand Advertiser, AND BAY OF ISLANDS GAZETTE.

KORORAREKA:-December 10, 1840.

J. A. MURRAY,

Begs to acquaint the Inhabitants of the Bay of Islands, and its vicinity, that he has arrived by the "Thomas Law", for the purpose of establishing a GENERAL STORE at Victoria, where it will always be his study to keep a General Stock of Merchandize for the supply of the Settlers and the Shipping, Wholesale and Retail.

Dealers and others are in the meantime invited to inspect his Invoices; and are informed, that any description of Goods by the Package; will be delivered from the Vessel at a small advance on their cost.

THEY CONSIST OF
Hardware, Ironmongery, and tools of every description
Blankets, slops and general Drapery, in assorted packages to suit Dealers
Canvas, rope and cordage
Provisions, viz. butter and cheese, corn-fed bacon and hams, split pease, sugar, salt, &c.
London soap, best quality
Trueman & Co's brown stout in hhds.
London bottled porter and pale ales
Sherry wine, in quarter casks, octaves and bottles
Port wine, in quarter casks and bottle
French Madeira in bottle
An Invoice of Medicines, well selected and shipped from London in June
List
An Invoice of Leather and shoemaker's grindery

J. A. Murray will purchase or receive in exchange Oil and Whalebone in any quantity. Also, New Zealand produce of every description.
Dec. 9, 1840.

M. BROWN,

Furnishing Tailor and Draper,
Begs to return his most sincere thanks to the Inhabitants of Kororareka, and New Zealand, for their liberal encouragement since he commenced business, and to assure them that nothing shall be wanting on his part to merit a continuance of their favors.

M. B. begs to assure those who may honor him with their patronage, that they may depend upon the strictest attention being paid to the workmanship in all its details, and being furnished with Materials of the very first quality. (M. B. Having resolved upon excluding all articles of an inferior description.) the charges will always be found moderate, as he has determined on working upon the smallest remunerating profits for Cash only.

Amongst a LARGE CAREFULLY Selected stock, the following Articles will be found well worthy of public attention, viz.
Superfine Blue Cloths
Ditto Black do.
Ditto Brown do.
Ditto Green do.
Ditto Invisible green
Ditto Puce
Ditto Red
Buckskins in great variety
Cassimeres in ditto
A splendid assortment of Silk, Florenduo and Valentia Waistcoatings
Superfine Hats of every description
Second do
A large assortment of superfine cloaks
Second do
Gold and silver Lace, 2 inch, 1 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 3/4 inch & 1/2 inch wide
Gold Fringe
Gauze handkerchiefs, scarfs & veils
Jewellery
Cigars of a very superior quality
With a great variety of other articles too numerous for insertion.

HENRY THOMPSON & CO.

ARE prepared to purchase to any extent. Black Oil, Sperm Oil, and whalebone, either British or Foreign.

ON SALE, at the Stores of the Undersigned

Rum in barrels
Gin in do.
Brandy in do.
Manilla sugar
Soap, tobacco in kegs and tierces
Tar
Pitch
Claret
Sherry
Port
Coir rope.
Tea, loaf sugar
Fine biscuit.
WM. WILSON.
Dec. 2, 1840.

FOR SALE,

BY the Undersigned, on board the fore ship Tuscan, off Russell, the following Articles:
Hock, Sauterne, Barsac, Moselle
Claret, Bucellas, Port and Sherry.
Lemon and Raspberry Syrup and Cyder
Rum in barrels. Brandy and Gin in hhds.
Bottled Ale and Porter in 3 doz. casks
Rum, Arrack, and Gin
Raisins. Tobacco; Prints
Blankets, Glasses, Hats
Spanish mahogany Bagatelle Boards.
JOHN J. MONTEFIORE.
Nov., 1840.

FOR SALE,

By the Undersigned, on board the store ship Tuscan, off Russell
Brown stout, pale and strong ales
Tobacco, sugar, rice
Preserved meats, anchovy paste
Fowling pieces, double barrel guns
Saddles and bridles.
ANDERSON, SCOTT & CO.
Nov. 1840.

To Builders, &c., &c.

GENTLEMEN engaged in Building will save 50 per cent, by giving handy orders, and stating the lengths and dimensions to suit their Buildings, to Mr. BLACK, who can supply timber to any extent.
Opposite Russell,
Sept. 2, 1840.

TO LET,

THAT very well known very commodious HOUSE AND PREMISES in the rear of the Bank, Kororareka, lately occupied as the "Commercial Hotel," and highly adapted for either Family Residence or Public Business.
Apply to
BENJ. TURNER.
ALSO,
That very comfortable and convenient HOUSE, lately occupied by Dr. Davies, and next to the New Zealand Bank.
For particulars, enquire of Dr. Davies, or of
BENJ. TURNER.
Kororareka, Nov. 4.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership of the Undersigned is this day dissolved by mutual consent, in consequence of Mr. WEAVELL'S intended return to Sydney, and to whom, all claims are requested to be sent in immediately.
THOMAS SPICER
JOHN WEAVELL.
Kororareka, Nov. 11, 1840.
Witness,
R. SCOTT BUCKHAM.

NOTICE.
The Church in the back of the Victoria Hotel, Kororareka, will be opened for divine worship next Sunday, when Mr. QUATER will preach, in the morning at eleven, and in the evening at half-past six.

REMOVAL.

KORORAREKA AUCTION and Commission Rooms.

T. S. P. I. C. E. R. begs to inform the Public, that, he has opened the above House, two doors from the Stores of Messrs. G. T. Clayton & Co., and lately occupied by Mr. M. Brown, Tailor, where he has on hand every variety of Grocery, Haberdashery, Glass and Crockery ware. Wholesale and Retail.

T. S. will be glad to receive GOODS of any kind on Commission from those who may please to honor him with their commands. All Accounts will be settled with expedition.
Kororareka Beach,
Nov. 11, 1840.

Notice is hereby given, that MR. THOMAS ADLEMAN, of Kororareka, has been appointed and instructed to collect all sums due to us without delay, and in receipt, in any case, will be a sufficient discharge for the same.

Salus Populi, suprema lex, is brought to be the basis of all Government, and every political convulsion which has ever taken place has arisen from forgetfulness on the part of rulers, of this great principle: In the nineteenth century it is a truth very generally acknowledged among civilized Nations, but how much vigilance is required to keep this law in force! In colonizing New Zealand we have been glad to find the English Sovereign avowing, through her Ministers, her intention of adopting this fundamental law. It were well if she knew the manner of its actual application by her Colonial servants. Do they not have to spe back 200 years or more in their political views? Truly, the welfare of the people not only do not appear to be with them the highest law, but they seem to have forgotten its very existence as a principle at all applicable to public economy. It were worth our while to spend a moment in observing some of the things which the Salus populi demands.

First, it unquestionably requires that the equitable rights of property should be kept and maintained inviolate. Without this it is impossible that any state can stand. Wherever any law is allowed to supersede this, confusion, distress, and on the contrary, annihilate the Commonwealth. No law, then, can have more moral force than the Salus populi implying the existence and maintenance of property.

"Colonist" is properly one who is an Agriculturist and that not in the quality of a mere holder of a proprietor. To colonize is to occupy land, and not merely to establish a mercantile settlement, and this has always been its meaning. If, then, there be no landed property here, there is no colony, and, consequently, there can be no Governor nor one. The Salus populi, then, which has been forgotten, involves the inevitable fact, which no special law has moral force to overthrow, that there is landed property in actual enjoyment, and that it must be inviolate.

Second, this Law requires that, everything both in legislation and in subordinate arrangements, should be done for the people, and not against them that every...