The MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, March 28, 1850.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 33, 28 March 1850, Page 2

The MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, March 28, 1850.

If our native readers will turn to the Shipping lists, which we have, of late, regularly and UNKNOWN prepared; and, if they will there examine the amount of New Zealand produce exported, and being exported, to t!it: shores of California, we think that they, like ourselves, will joyfully admit that in no nountl-y or colo.iy could the prospects of the agri • eukuralist he more bright and hopeful than their o.vn now is.

Every article, for which New Zealand is finned, is in general and anxious request. Timber lias been, and continuts lobe, so greedily sought after, that many houses, in the course of erection in Auckland and its neighbourhood, have been materially delayed, because sawyers and limber dealers could not supply the ships that have been, ami are loading, with .sufficient rapidity. Our home consumers have consequently been obliged to wait the leisure of the trade, and even when their necessities have been relieved it has been at a vsry considerable advance in price. In the midst of so much profitable activity, we nvc delighted to learn our native friends have not bscn passive or inactive spectators. We rejoice to find that, with their aomstomed intelligence, they have taken their part i:i the tide of g iod fortune so strongly setting in. Wo have seen them prudently supplying their own wants, and those of Iheii European Mlnw subjects- Wo hive seen them trained to handle the trowel and the mallet with a degree of skill that would do credit to European masonry, and it U with sincere respect we ha»c learnt that they are supplying the place left vacant by European sawyers, who, with less prudence than they, have gone a distant hunting of gold, which native industry readily ga'hers on its native shoivs. This is true wisdom : and the people so ready to profit by every change and turn of circumstance cannot but speedily become as wealthy as they are astute. To revert to the cheering subject of native exports:—According to a published estimate to Hie 10th of February last, u date at which anything like tin active trade may be said scarcely to have commenced, there were nearly SUO OUO feet of sawn timber, 172 wooden houses, 250,000 shingles, 92,000 bricks, 50 tons of potatoes, u quantity 'of onions, bacon, oats, maize, carrot", pork, dried llsh, liro->' wood, and a variety of farm and dairy produce exported. The vahie of these dilfercnt commodities were calculated to exceed Xl2,o(loat this port They were, with two or three exceptions, shipped in small vessels, and marly within four mouths of the date at which the calculation was made. Since than, turn, we beg of you, to our Shipping Intelligence. Look at the beautiful and capacious ships that have been loaded brim full with the products ot Colonial Industry and say if the bcnelieial manner in which you have been enabled to dispose of the harvest of 18<19 is not a strong incentive to bring ,i much larger and more profitable harvest to market during the pre - sent year 1851) ? We hope we need not urge you to he up and doing. "Speed the l'lotigh " has long been the enthusiastic cry oi the English tanner. Show us by (lie energy and activity with whieh jon follow yours, t hat you are equaly aware of its inappreciable worth. Wheat, Oats, Bnr.'ey, Maize, Potatoes, Onions, Carrots Turnips, all these are readily couveitibie into gold. If your earth d< es not yield that shining metal it i-s generous of the means by which that inutnl may be had. These means are in your own hunch-. You have but tooxert your industry utid gold is yours. Ti st our assertions by facts and say if we t< II von might but truth ? From the Hih Manli liJ-1!) to the 10th February ISSO, there wei e 25 vessels of I'.KiO tons

left New Zealand for California. From the JOtli February to the present 28th of March there have been 9 vessels of 2301 tons which have left Auckland for the same place. The first vessels carried but small cargoes, and that .luring a long term of eleven months- The last vessels during a pcriod_of only six weeks have departed full to "the hatches. Besides, they leave other splendid vessels loading, oiul they are certain to be succeeded by nmiiv more. Can anything be more cheering ? Can the fanner desire a brighter prospect ? Let not the happy moment sip, buuhow by the returns of the iirfy-A-'t year, that you know, quite as well how to take fortune at the flood. ' A word or two more, and, for the present, we have done. We have remarked, with much regret, the departure or several native females for the shores of California. We fear we may say with truth— they have gone from homi. If it be to follow those with whom they have lived in a state'of concubinage here, it is bad;—-if to follow out a wanton and an infamous life in a foreign land it is still worse. Tljey will eventually be thrown desolate on a strange country whose people will despise them, and they will be left to die, as too many Europeans already have been, like dogs in a ditch ! Keep your children amongst you. Train them up in the paths of honesty and virtue. Instruct them in the ways of industry, and be assured that, by such a course, you will not only secure competence and comfort in this world, but bo the right way to attain life everlasting in that which is to come: