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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 February 1844, Page 3 (Supplement)

Newipapep Readers —Shenstone' the poet, divided the readers of a newspaper into the following general classes : The ill-natured man looks to the list of bankrupts; the tradesman to the price of bread ; the stock jobber to the lie of the day ; the old maid to marriages.; the prodigal son to deaths ; the monopolist to the hopes of a wet harvest; and the boardingschool misses to events that relates to Gretna-green “NewsLetter.” —Mr, Gole, of the Australian and New Zealand Rooms, 455, West stand, London, has commenced a small monthly publication, called the Australian and New Zealand News letter which is intended for circulation among the working classes of Great Britain. It professes to belittle more than compila tion of the latest news from these colonies, and is intended to make our true condition as extensively known as possible. Judging from the first number, this is likely to be a very useful publication, and its appearance shows that the interest in colonial affairs is beginning to revive in London. If the iVeic* Letter impartially sets forth both the disadvantages and advantages of the colonies, it will deserve well of the community, for nothing has been more injurious than the system of puffing which has been carried by interested speculate s. It shold be proclaimed from one end if Britian to the other that no man not having capital should come to New South Wales, unless he means to work, and work hard. There are plenty idlers here already Important to the Medical Profession and Chemists.— A letter having been written to the Lords of the Treasury on the subject of the proceedings adopted by the Board of Excise against >he medical profession, for selling spirits of wine without a ucence, a letter has been received in rep'y, stating that physicians, apothecaries, surgeons, or chemists, are allowed to make use of spirits of wine, or of any spirituous liquor s in the preparation of medicines, or to sell, them as prepared and mixed with medicine, without incurring any penalty ; but if a chemist or other person shall retail spirituous liquors in a pure unadulterated state, without a license for such purpose, he shall incur the penalty of £SO. A very general practice has obtained amongst chemists and druggists of se] iug spirits of wine for miscellaneous and household purposes, which has been very injtuious to the )heased dealer.— Albion-. Free I'nAc.K. I’.y a siiii*tical account of im ,p<» l.* an t exports lncb |ia-> *»«:«•!» laid In fur* 111 Sydney Legislative Cou >t*il, the decided value oi the export* from Ibis Colony lo Sydn y, during a period of five years, m ling 1812. ate as follows : Wheal, £2lB 165; Hoar, ,£'24,8'.10; other Van Ditrmn’s Land produce. .£';tl4 519. Total value (luring (lie five years, £557,514. On the other hand, the declined value of Van Diemen's Land imports from Sydney, during the same period, amounts to £95,394, by which it is evident that the balance of trade in favour of this oolony, during the five years, is £462,120. or very nearly £l()0,000 per annum clear. In the uncertainty which attends the ptoduciionof heal in tilt* agricultural districts of the sister colony, too much attention cannot be given lo the cultivation of a good understanding and reciprocity of interests between the two colonies. A free trade should be established between them, and every possible advantage, by lessening port charges, be given to colonial craft or vessels trading solely between the colonies. A petition has been presented, elsewhere noticed, to ille Legislative Council, at Sydney, praying the imposition of a duty on all graiu entering Port Jackson, from Van Diemen’s Land, upon the soorce that Sydney tobacco is subject to a heavy duty on beiug brought here ; and 'Tasmania is disinclined to reciprocate measures with Sydney. This we are pertain is not the case; but our Council cannot Hie too early an opportunity of disabusing the of our Sydney neighbours of an erroneous idea .-'Hobart Town Courier,