LAND SALE.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 23, 29 November 1842, Page 1

LAND SALE.

At the Land Sale on Thursday last, there were severaLpurchases made; though, at [any auction that we have been, either as a party interestedjor, a mere spectator, never have we witnessed so little competition. “The Screw * was put in force to its utmost power, and the result was, that a few persons, who were absolutely obliged to purchase, or else’relinquish the project of their expatriation, bought , — they did not get cheaply as an inducement, but they dearly bought as much as would enable them to evince ihe desire they have to promote the interests of New Zealand. This is fully proved by the fact, that every square foot of the land sold, has been before rejected, at the public hammer, and that it would not now have found purchasers, expect in despair of a rational reduction of the upset prices. Lord Stanley’s bill was read to the attendants, and the proclamation of it by the Governor was, AT 7 H AT MOMENT Only, 3111101111ced, alt ho ugh t lie 44 Government .Gazette''’ was published the day berorc, — ami although, if the (disgraceful) monopoly of the Press in Auckland by Govern® incut chicanery had not prevented ! it, it would have been known i two days before., —and the resit If | of ail this scheming* was ordv« ! that the lately twice rejected lots, •now, o:d, in ultci hopelessnesson . the part of the • haver.-,' of any;

other to go on with have brought: Fjg" the minimum price—plus, ninepence an acre ! Lord Stanley’s bill provides a minimum pricer Lord Stanley’s bill “ provides}’a discretionary power of “takingtip—which, upon our honour, we believe the Honorable Shortland I Tto lie incapable of taking advantage of, but which^ ; nevertheless, no ‘honorable man’* | ought to be"entrusted with, | Stanley’s bill provides the powerful interposition of (he British | law between free trade with the natives, on the one hand, and a ! . 7 rationally remunerating price, ori ! the other, —for, it provides that we, the Colonists, shall not deal with the natives for their com mo-* dit) r , lest we should do injustice to them in their blanket barter, and yet it provides that we~shalt j only obtain a right and title from | (he Government, which they j themselves obtain by the same I means,-—by paying them a price ! multiplied by any ratio, which ! the cupidity of themselves, or the inexperience of the emigrants, may give a delusive currency to land then, even then, after all these conditions are performed, the [Government have no pretensions to the merit of having fulfilled the only obligation [by which a monopolist can justify his patent,--be ho king,,---be he Governor, 66 vel quocunque nomine gaudet,” viz : the condition of furnishing a supply proportionate to t ne demand. Ihe Government of New Zealand have no land , fairly I obtained, to offer to the arriving | Colonists ; they are dependent ! upon the titles wrung by process | of law (a law of their own making) from the older Colonists. If this should be contradicted,--., if they have, why do they riot firing it forward ? j TConcluded in the Supplement*)