Port Cooper.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 36, 2 March 1843, Page 3

Port Cooper.

There is a loag-winded article in last Monday's Chronicle, about the Company's proposed new settlement at some new Utopia to be called Port Cooper. JVe decline to follow the weak washy everlasting Hlow [of the writer, who acknowledges, that he **sees through a glass dimly/* but he winds up with the following recommendation and we strongly object to it: 'We cannot conclude these observations without expressing our surprise and regret, that, among the memorials and petitions to England, and among the many resolutions agreed to at our public meetings (having for their object the advancement ot the settlement), our fellow colonists should have taken no steps to secure for it the manifold advantages that would arise from its being adopted a& the field for 'the operation ot some wealthy, enterprising, andjinfluentidl company." Now our surprise would be ali the other way: after all the knowledge the colonizers of iSlew Zealand have about 'systematic colonizing, enterprising, wealthy and influential companies/' we should be surprised indeed if they did not take warning, and advocate the Coopers' maxim '*Let every tub stand on its own bottom/'