THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, January 31, 1850.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 29, 31 January 1850, Page 1

THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, January 31, 1850.

Friends, Maories!—We have a piece of important advice to give you. Hearken to our words, whilst we point the way in which, during the year upon which we have just entered, you may put a great deal of money in your pockets. The harvest of 1849 is nearly gathered. The seed time of 1850 is at hand. He industrious, be active; and look that you prepare for the plough as much land as possible. Sow much more wheat than you have ever sown before. Let your potato fields —your onion beds, be of greater extent than ever. Grow turnips, carrots, mangel wurzle, maize, and every description of food suited for man and beast. Be sure that you will have a large demand, and at liberal prices, for all and more than you can produce. The thousands of people who are flocking to California from every quarter of the globe require food, for which they will give you the gold you love in ready payment. Consider facts, and you will clearly perceivehowgreatly the Native New Zealanderand European settler must profit by. the demand for provisions which the enormous influx lof mouths to California cannot fail to create. At this moment the products of these islands, which you can cause to be the most abundant, are in the greatest request. You may remark ships, and those large ships too, coming into Auckland, ! week, after week—to do what ? why to carry Hour, potatoes, onions, eggs, ducks, geese, butter, timber, and many other articles of native produce to California. This is but the beginning of a great and ad- ' vantageous trade. Cast your eyes over the Shipping List, you will i find in this and our last paper, and 1 say if we tell you truth or no ? ; Many ships have come and gone, ; but more, many more are on the ] way, and will continue to pour in, that is, if they find the Maories i wise, and that they have grown the ; food they will then come hither to buy. Now, then, is the time, oh Maories, to make yourselves rich. Away with you ; till your lands, plant your fields j study to follow agriculture through all its numerous branches; and you will get sure possession of that gold for which so many are recklessly risking life and : health, and daring destruction to < 'grasp. The opportunity of wealth is thus offered you ; the fault will i be yours if you fail to attain it. i Men of your own origin—the i Sandwich Islanders—are hugging ' themselves in the knowledge that I their country may eventually derive 'prosperity from California —but, in i the meantime, the thirst of gold has 1 [Unpeopled that country —there is '

none to cultivate the soil, and consequently they have nought to sell. Letyouv industiy profit by their folly. Show the world that New Zealand is indeed the fertile land of which her European dwellers boast and that their Native friends know how to supply the great and increasing market, which has so opportunely and so remarkably been opened to their exertions. Be wise. We write no idle fables. The certainty of riches is placed before you. Do not let it slip. We would not have the stranger ships depart, to seek in other countries the food that may be so easily found them here.