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Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 12, 21 October 1842, Page 1

By the Duchess of Argyle, we receive the important information, that Lord Stanley has commenced; in our case, the liberal and judicious system, which had been before applied to some of the southern colonics, we mean the plan of sending on: capital and labour together, pledged ane united to each other, by the bonds of mutual interest r<nd personal attachment. The plan is this, Lord Stanley sells, in London, land, in parcels of not less than one hundred acres, the buyer is to have in return the following important advantages, viz.: the right of selection, at the upset price|oi one pound per acre, from any land surveyed—the Surveyor General's Department is*to be so strengthened, as to enable that officer (than whom, we would not wish foi any one more able or more zealous for the public welfare,) to bave some considerable tracts of good land open to the demand created; besides this, for every bundled acre purchase the buyer may bring ou«, free of cost, four servants of his own selection, under indent to himself, if he sc pleases: thus securing to the eoleny the advantages of labour and population, and at the same time insuring to each individual capitalist; the immediate benefit which he himself creates for the geuertj good. These land orders are to be addressed to the Surveyor General, with instruction to that officer to assist the bearer of them iu the choice ot his selection, ane are not in any way liable to be thwartec \ky the caprice of local authority. The vile system of Auction Sales, which has wrought such infinite mischief to'the bona fide settler, for the benefit of gam* biers only, has now therefore got the axe laid to its root, it must inevitably fall, the colonists can never be so wea& as to go to the periodical sales of little bits of land, which the local government, in its avaricious cunning, may condescend from tin e to time to offer, and there and then repeat the folly of cutting each others respective pur. es, by mutual defiance in bidding. This soit of thing is to l t e tiied agj.ii, next Monday (vid. Gazette), but we ad\ise intending purchasers, that they have b> every possible parity of reasoning, as much right to select lands at one pound per acre, a j their fellow countrymen in London, to wi on so many inducements arc offered; besides, the)[should recollect thatjall lands vrh!ch have passed the hammer without "hi; ers, aie, by order in Council, open to their choice, at the upset price of one pound per acre ; although Captain Hobsou thought proper to put his veto upon this