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Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 22, 25 November 1842, Page 1

In our last Mangle, but one, we spoke of the almost instantaneous facility with which Auckland had disposed ot ‘he- un« expected freightage of the cc Duchess ot Argyle” and the 66 Jane Gifford/* and promised an account of their distribution, which we now give. Our readers will oh* serve that the immigrants’ engagements in service, at the present moment, are quite free of Government assistance. It may be worth while to notice, in reply to some ingenious remarks of the Wellington press, that, when Government works are to be done, and paid for by Government funds, it can mafee no difference to the jealous watchfulness of the distribution of Government outlay, who are the labourers. Roads and bridges, wharfs and landingplaces cannot be made without hands, and as Auckland was destitute of labour, to carry out the most necessaiq' and obvious purposes ot public exigence,— \ticliland became of course a proper field for the introduction of population ? and Auckland is solicitous for more. An account of the distribution of the Immigrant passengers by the Duchess of. Argyle/* 6 ‘ Jane Gifford/* and the ap&c., by the St. George.”— The sawyers quickly found engage** mentson the neighbouring coast and rivers; carpenters have had no difficulty in finding work at about 6s. per day• shoemakers, tailors, and bakers have found good employment. Good farm servants have been engagedat about £2O per annum and full rations,—most of these near Auckland, a few have gone to the Bay of Islands, and there is room for many more. The female domestic servants, and semptresses all met with good engagements in the town and neighbourhood immediately, except a tew who were bespoken lor service al the Ray of Islands. Several of the wives of the farm-servants, and others, have been engaged in the country, and all of the sons, able to work, have found employment. Ail others wno have not found inducements to make more permanent private engagements,, are doing necessary Government work, by contract/ which there is room for many more to partake (he advantage of. All the free lads by the 66 St. George 5 ’ are engaged, and most of the apprentices haye been placed : the remainder continuing under the charge of tne 'SurveyorGeneral, It will be seen by this that Auckland is not destitute of those resources, which eu«* terprize and a hearty purpose are able to hold out, to the assistance of a vvillinp’ ino dustry ; and, if there have been a momentary check.to the castle-building expectations, which Wellington puffery gave birth to iu respect of all New Zealand; it

is only in the nature of things that it. should ' occur, and not in the nature of the people or the capacities of Auckland. We desi«*/uite the arrival of the emigrants by these | ships unexpected, precisely because of the ' long delay, which in this case, as ever, has characterized the Government Our settlers were, by this reason, unprepared tor such a God-send at the moment, but they have not been tardy in doin«’ justice to this the first instalment, usefully paid, of the large debt, contracted by the British Government to our Emigration fund, —-a deaf, if possible more than ever, sacredly due to us, because of the profuseness with which we have bled, under the lancets that the pupils of the ?Pakefield (Sangrado) system have wielded so successfully. Under the administration of Sir Robert Peel, and the management of Lord Stanley, we look for measures better founded (upon experience instead of theory), we expeci some demonstration ot respect for the wholesome, thougli homely, maxim—- *‘ Look before you leap/ s —the disregard of which, precipitated the needy greedy Whigs into the pit-falls of 66 Self-support-ing Colonies,” 66 Land Revenues/ 5 {6 Upset Prices’ s—(to 5 —(to tumble fifty per cent upon the first shake!) — “Adjustments ! ot Land Claims/ 5 demolitions of contracts completed, expensive Protector-ships of Aborigines,—and all the oilier absurdities which have arisen from the theory of commencing the foundation of a Colony, by taxing the capital of its first settlers, and imposing a fine upon labour.