ON SALE

The Undersigned, on board the ship Nimrod, now at Russell, a float in the bay:

Fine old Jamaica rum, 5s. o. p. in barrels
10s. o. p.
Square Kg tobacco in tierces, 18 to 20 lb.
Flour, bread
Preserved meats, pickles
Ladies', gentlemen's and racing saddles
Salted cured pork
Double barrel guns
Tents, lined and unlined

ANDERSON, SCOTT & Co.
July 1, 1840.

The Undersigned are now Landing, the principal part of the ship Chelydra and Diana, viz: Black and green Tea, sugar, arrack, gin in cases and idols, ale and porter in bottle, Port and sherry wines, in bottle, 1st and 2nd quality flour, brown and fine biscuits, square Negrohead tobacco, sheet lead, 6, 10 and 11 quarter blankets, buckskins, cloths, ginghams, drills, ducks, canvas, venetia checks, hats, coarse and fine clothing, boots and shoes, glass, pilots, oils, glassware, earthenware, iron pots, carpenter's tools, 1-4th motion and 5th motion lever or spirit engine, complete, in mahogany cases, nails, cutlery, butter, great coats, striped cotton shirts, oilcloths for flooring, line oil cloth table covers, tin ware, metal ware, ivory handled knives and forks, in sets of 50 pieces, Lucifer matches, worsted and cotton stockings and socks, silk Bandanas, carpeting, muslin dresses, trifolium seeds, stocks, 3-bushel bags, cheese, hams, fine salt, ironmongery, canvas tents, lined.

Two four-roomed screw houses, 18 feet by 18 feet, made in England, boarding and every thing complete. Six four-roomed houses in frame, 30 feet by 20 feet, made in New South Wales, with shingles, glass, doors, cedar window frames and sashes, locks, keys and hinges. Six two-room houses in frame, 20 feet by 16 feet, made in New South Wales, with shingles, &c., same as above.

HENRY THOMPSON & Co.

New Zealand Banking Company

GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders will be held at the Banking-House, on Saturday next, August 1st, to receive the Report of the Provisional Committee on the Deed of Settlement.

DAN. POLLEN, Hon. Sec.
July 20.

ACCOMMODATION

FOR respectable Persons may be obtained at the Russell Family Hotel, Kororareka.
15th July, 1840.

RUSSELL HOTEL, NEAR RUSSELL.

The undersigned respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that comfortable Accommodation for Private Families, may be obtained at the above Hotel, on reasonable terms.

W. H. TIBBEY.
July 29.

MONEY.

WANTED, the sum of £200 or £250 on good freehold security in the Bay of Islands. For particulars, apply to Mr. LITTLEWOOD, Solicitor, Square, Kororareka.
July 29.

DIED.

On Saturday last, at Kororarika, Bay of Islands, after a few days illness, CHARLES HEBBLE, Esq., late of Foxton, near Cambridge, aged 22 years.

Captain Nagle, we are credibly informed, has no connexion with the New Zealand Land Company's Office, as we stated in a late Number.

The New Zealand Advertiser,

AND BAY OF ISLANDS GAZETTE.

KORORARIKA:-JULY 30, 1840.

It does not appear to us that the legal aspect of the Land question is the one on which stress can be laid. The question has, properly speaking, no aspect, at all, till it has been given to it by a specific Act of legislation. We are quite sure that whatever may be thought at Sydney, the British Ministers have not looked upon it as unconstitutional for British subjects to acquire landed property in other lands, and under the authority of other states. There is not, to our apprehension, the slightest indication of such an idea in all their proceedings in relation to this country. Had Englishmen acted unconstitutionally in the eye of English authority, they would be liable to punishment, but they are not deemed so to be. We feel persuaded on this, and several other grounds, that whatever proceedings may be instituted having this opinion for their basis, will be at once foreign to the actual merits of the case, and to the instruction of her Majesty's Ministers.

No, the question is one of morality, subject, however, to such modifications as circumstances may render expedient. Equity the most strict and impartial, and based on the common rights of men, must be the guiding principle in the settlement of this question. There are several thoughts which we beg to submit to our readers,

1st—There is nothing morally wrong in the mere act of acquiring land in a country as this, during its independence by men who acknowledge themselves to be British subjects. We are aware of a law of equity which forbids it. The fact that such persons consider themselves as British subjects implies a recognition on their part of the rights of the British Crown to take cognizance of their conduct, and to interfere with it according to the Laws of Great Britain.

3rd—There is no actual Law of England of which we are aware, to dispossess English holders of landed property in a Foreign state, when that state becomes part of the British Empire; and if those possessors are indeed amenable to the English Constitution, there must be such a Law passed in England to authorize such a measure, before either the authority of the British Ministers, or any Colonial enactment could be rendered available for such a purpose.

But though actual and indiscriminate dispossession cannot be effected in this manner, the authority of the Crown is entirely sufficient to call its subjects to account for the manner in which they have acquired or hold their property, and to compel them to submit to such regulations as, being according to the spirit of the English constitution and of the laws belonging to it, shall either force them to resign what they do not hold justly, or to hold and occupy their just possessions in a manner which shall best secure the ends of universal equity.

6th—Hence a Court of Claims founded on these principles, is a perfectly legitimate thing, its objects being, not universal dispossession, but simply suspension, till the equity of the claims can be examined, and ultimately the confirmation of such titles only, and on such conditions, as shall accord both with the unquestionable Rights of the Natives, with the principles of English law, and with the necessary establishment of British authority here.

9th—With regard to the Equity of any claim, the great dispute is between the Native and the European claimants; English or Colonial Law may suffice to decide between one European claimant and another, but a knowledge of the great principle of universal justice alone can enable a man to...

Just received ex Giraffe, and on sale at the Stores of the undersigned, a variety of STATIONERY, consisting of Account Books, Bill books, paper, and blotting ditto, and law miscellaneous Works, consisting of Johnson's Dictionaries, Life of Nelson, Ditto Hannah More, Ditto Pitt, Burn's Works, &c., &c.

W. WILSON.
July 22.

To the Purchasers and Inhabitants of Kororarika.

GENTLEMEN,—Bills having been published by Mr. Brown, cautioning persons against purchasing Farms situate on the Waitoi river advertised for sale by Mr. Wilson (on the grounds of his having previously purchased the same,) I beg leave to state, that he, Mr. Brown, has no claim whatever to the said Farms, he having neglected to comply with the terms of his agreement with me for the purchase thereof; in fact, although repeatedly requested so to do, has refused to complete the said agreement, thereby making null and void the same, and forfeiting all claim to the said Land according to such agreement, of which he, Mr. Brown, had due notice previous to the Farms being offered for sale. I also beg leave to state, that I have not received the sum of £50 as part payment of the purchase money as stated in such hand-bills.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) E. POWELL.
Kororarika, July 20, 1840.

NOTICE.

Divine Service will be performed next Sunday in the large room at the back of Mr. Jones’s, when Mr. Quaife will preach in the morning at eleven, and in the evening at half past six.

THE UNDERSIGNED,

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

HENRY THOMPSON & CO.
July 20.

WANTED,

A Man and his Wife to take charge of a Farm within one mile of Kororarika. Terms liberal. For particulars, apply to
T. SPICER.
July 20.

A Man and his Wife as House Servants. Apply to
T. SPICER.
July 20.

A few good Brick Makers. Apply to
T. SPICER.
July 20.

A few good Wood Cutters or Labourers, to whom constant employment will be given. Apply to
T. SPICER.
July 20.

A pair of Brickmakers to whom constant employment will be given. Apply to W. WILSON, Auctioneer.
July 15, 1840.