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Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 18, 11 November 1842, Page 1

The " New Zealand Colonist" oS the! 4th ultimo, in its notice of the concluding! number of the " Auckland Standard," has ■I made some remarks, which, for reasons ol our own, we thiiy it proper to reply to, more especially, as CoioueJMVaftefield's visit to &uc"latid ma*t s s it menmbent upon, us, in some measure, to vindicate " the attacJJ upon what the writer is pleased to consider the Wakefield theory"— now, I while Colonel WaJJefield honours AucJJJland by his presence. The theory, if we understand any thing at all of its nature, holds out the preposterous notion that Ijsnd itself is Capital, upon the same crude idea that golj is useful, —each possessing intrinsic vahu in themselves : —the truth that the first requires actual personal proprietorship, and laborious occupation; and the second a credit in universal acceptation, before either ot them obtain any value at all. A golden sovereign is ofless intrinsic worth than a Birmingham button, and an hundred acres of laud, than a bottle oi spring water--if,they are unaccompanied bv 2'jfia valuable con-si~de-r;v-ti-on, as old Traphoissay*. But the'/iajefield Iberirj its :•(■( idiout ii;" iWMioii |h;it 5! tcy< lilic is I*6 \u derived o'o.n n i \'pj 'tll-on and that the piouici- ; . ot ])rimeval desolation c,... ; iutil to pa) laxtyfm~?tnT prrtTTiege oP !a bo ur. Acting upon this acceptable absurdity • v\ hiclj was lajjen up by the plethoric enpi- ; talists of the English Funds, who caieh at j any thing by which they may get the turn of the market), the "Whig administration actually set about the notable scheme of founding the Capital of New Zealand, upon the credit of its future prosperity; and come what come may, Captain Hobson was instructed to ma*e the most of the golden discovery of a sislp-slpportino Colony, Land must only be sold by Auction ! only in little proportions at a time, —and every other scheme was to be made available, to get the utmost for every inch of ground. " It/' says our co-tempo-rary, ''they attempt to found a town, with no resident population ; with no existing trade ; and without arrangements lor emigration, or for the supply of capita], there is a reason tor the occurrence of their disco mft tu re." -Of coufse there is! and the reason is this, —that rtie Government founding a colony, instead of flic good old system ot lending a helping hand to "its £.ild, till it could go alone, calls upon it to wear expensive swaddling clothes, which prevent its going at all, and for fear this should noi be sufficient impediment, they bring a host of interested nurses and doctors, in the shape ot speculators and land-shares, to aggravate their own mal-treatmentan hundred fold. Now, for all this, we blame tin* Wakefield system. The only just, aad* consequently, only successful, sys*

tern of colonizing, is to lease land, or to give land—contingent upon a stipulated occupation and improvement: the fee-simple to be secured to the colonist, or resumed by the ; ..< J oven orient, upon fulfilof the conditions, I!: system of Wajefield is to bribe shifting, restless, greedy capital", into a speculation whence immediate income; .cannot possibly em and from which it j&rii of■ coilrse, as soori us the intoxication lof gambling undergms its inevitable relapsr, retire. —It has worked its day of mischiff Irere ! The natural advantages of the distiact arc helping us over our and we despise the phantom (hat has wrought us sul'h great (error, so sincerely, that we scarcely care to notice it now, except for fhe record of its utter discomfiture-. We have been the steady opponents of and-gambling, whether practised by the Go* vernment or others : our usefulness, at the ipresentanomeat is much limited by our very smalT space, or we should quote the whole of the recent evidence given before the Immigration Committee upon the absurd system of high prices of land in the Coltaii;'- (The'prosperity of .New South .■.-, be it remembered, however she ruiy be insulted by upstart jhe sole incentive to the creation of the latter.) The speculative theory of "UTaJJejficld has ruined that country, and pcrsis< ted in, wi!i prevent the establislrnent of this. W¥c call upoij the,,broad sheets of our contemporary, that is to be! the "Chronicle,'' to publish for general information the evidence (from " Sydney Herald," Sth and Bth Oct.) of Messrs. Icely, Dulhtniiv f Geo. Cox, Henry O'Brien. Geo. M'Leay, •Sir, T. Mitchell, (Surveyor General of N,S. W.), Mr. Jacques, (Government Auctioneer)--«*etim multis aiiis. These parties are all men of the first consideration in the colony, interested direct!) in upholding the price of land, they one and all testily to the insahity o& the Wakefield system of extortion.. If it is so perfectly intolerable in an old established Country li*e New South 'Wales, with all her advantages ot advancement, what less than obstrue?ion, in its worst sense, can it Le to us, 'That Obstruction which Byron describes of degraded ruined Greece—f Wh ere cold Ob zlruc ti an *s « p ith y ■Appals the gazing mourner'a heart, As if to him it could, in-part The doom, he dreads yet dwells upon/' By some unaccountable dementation the authorities here linger over land auetioiis and high prices, li*e the tool iti the fable over the dead goose, that used to (a) golden eggs for her greedy and ungrateful owner.—--It is of no use, '\ hey must return to the legitimate courses dictated by experience, and throw Wakefield's theories to he wind.

There f« a rumour in Sown, wbich orjgCniMes from a tolerably MteSllgeut _ source, that (Sir John Colborne) Is t© bethe new Governor of H r ew iiealaiirt,' We hope this is true: from, susl* a man we shall have promptitude rice indecision,. Mew Zealand will advance, to the dignity of a colony % and-Auckland will in realff/y become a Capital. £tiv szMT>x l information m anttotti m tijat in sasebnesaap’s ©obermnent GtytjWf tyt npstrt price of the Suburban Itots *b »crti«eb; -as cowrageousls been tfSfeb at last, it is now £en Pounbs per acre “ ’ffiis wise,’its soclt, but not the less t> pain.’ affilfjat kbits tfw poor sap ntijo were simple enough to bup. Within a few ‘little months' when it was Ekitcntp IJotmas. Sffiilc congratulate iHr. dfii;gcr* aid snd the lucky buyers erf the 14th of April, They Will he able to buy igain, however, and ma kc an. average, when common sens® resumes its sway, and government expectation becomes com* pa table with reason- The Government refuse t« recognise *ord Stanley’s Bill, in respect of selection from rejected Lots —' "by what diverse rule of conduct do they assume the novel power of adjusting Up set Prices ? .