A GLANCE AT NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 6 December 1851, Page 3

A GLANCE AT NEW ZEALAND.

[From the " Inverness Courier." Some friendly north countryman, who has forsaken the green hills of Caledonia for the not less pleasant shores of New Zealand, addresses to us the New Zealander of the 14th of August, 1850, published at Auckland. It is a tiny, Lilliputian newspaper, not so large as "Chambers' Edinburgh Journal," when that popular miscellany appeared in folio form—is published twice a week—and it can proudly tell the world that it has arrived at its 452 nd number. It announces its agents, not only in New Zealand and Australia, and hints not only at a circulation in America, but that subscriptions are received in London, Dublin, and Newry, We were about to half hazard a claim upon Messrs. Williamson & "Wilson, the jroprietors, publishers, and printers, as two of the wandering race of Scotchmen, who are popularly supposed to be found everywhere : but alack, that unfortunate " Newry" suggests that to the other side of the channel and to the spirit of Irishmen is Auckland indebted for the New Zealander. This brotherly broadsheet from the South Pacific has a business air about it. Prominent in its advertising columns Holloway announces that all " may be cured yet," and Messrs. Jenkins and Co attest the fact. Rowland, too, cautions the New Zealand world against spurious Macassar. It is said that Englishmen make an England wherever they go. Here is evidence of the fact in " hhds. of English ale," " Bass's Burton ale," "half-barrels of red and white herrings," " cases of Geneva," " Liverpool salt," " prime Glo'ster," &c, which swarm throughout the advertisements. Families who remain are offered a choice of six or eight pretty cottages of all sizes, "delightfully" or <■ pleasantly" situaced; while those who are on the move are offered a cheap passage to Sydney per the Bon Accord —so much for Aberdeen, or per the Sarah, Captain Lewis Grant We in these northern parts—Tain, Forres, and Inverness—have been dabbling a little in Mechanics' Institutions, with soirees, lectures, libraries, and all that; so have our friends in New Zealand. The Auckland Mechanics' Institute advertises that its library has been recently received (from London, we suppose), and a librarian was to be elected—that its drawing and forensic classes are in full operation, and that a lecture on " the Early History of Palesiine" was to be delivered on a certain evening by the Rev. A. Reid, —members to show their cards at the door. There were " Lodgings for Single Gentlemeu" to be let (not over an oven like those of the victim in Colman's Broad Grins) ; " cigars to be sold," and " soaps to be had daily at. the Victoria Hotel." The New Zealander adopts the motto— "Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be, thy Country's, Thy God's, and Truth's." - And under the guidance of this loyal and bold determination chronicles in three short leading articles the opening of a coal-mine, the delivery of a lecture on superstition to the Mechanics, and the presentation of a purse to an amiable Minister, all preceded by a summary of English news. In this, the original department of the paper, the printers rather fail ■ but we dare say they, too, feel the want sometimes felt nearer home, when we dismiss an unlucky broad sheet with an " Oh, there's nothing in it !" It is gratifying to find that the Governor was exerting himself amongst the natives to induce them to contribute to the Great Exhibition of Industry in London, and to incite them on, was to give local prizes to all intending exhibitors. He recommended the preparation of flax and wheat, carved work and native garments; native baskets dyed, iish-hooks, lines, "an eel-pot," and a net. The whites, too, were to contribute ; and we trust the New Zealand stall will prove its attractions in the Great Exhibition. The New Zealander is evidently an excellent local paper, and its columns show that the colony is progressing. We trust it is so, and that the venturous Newrymen may speedily be called upon to supply a " daily" to the news-expecting Aueklauders.