THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, March 19, 1842.
Lee journaux deviennent plua ne'cessaires a meiure que les homines wut plus fegaux, et I* individualisme plua it eralndre. Cc lermit diminuer leur importance quo de croire qu* lie ne serrent qu' a pnntir la liberty : iU msintiennent la civilisation. D« TbCQUCTIIiLB. D* U Dlmoentie ea Amerique, tome 4, p. 290. Journals become more necessary as men become more equal, and individualism more to be feared, It would be to underrate their importance to suppose that they serve only to secure liberty : they maintain eivilication. D« TOCQI7BVIM.B. Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. 990. OUR PROSPECTS SIX WEEKS AFTER ARRIVAL. There are many things requisite to the early prosperity of a new settlement — sufficient capital, a good soil, a fine climate, a practicable port : all these we are possessed of in a degree which at least equals, if not surpasses, the average. But there is one thing still more essential than all others, namely, an emigrant population whose habits of industry, whose undespairing good spirts and energetic hopefulness, shall be able to set at defiance all discouragement arising from deficiency in the above, or any other advantages — this, we repeat, is of all things most important ; and this one essential we possess in the highest possible degree. The progress that has been made amongst the labouring classes in building their own houses — in getting around them all the comforts which circumstances would admit — is in the highest degree creditable to them. And if at any time we have doubted for a moment the success of the Nelson settlement, one look around us at the much that has been done — that is doing, and (judging from the past of the future) the much more that is likely to be done — has instantly restored to us our old hopes, still better founded than before. It is known, doubtless, to all our readers, that the New Zealand Company provide a residence (in barracks built for the purpose) for all newlyarrived immigrants. Of all who have yet been landed — from the Fifeshire, the Mary Anne, and Lord Auckland, the first of which vessels arrived but little more than a month sinee — none, save a few women and one man who is &ick, remain dependent upon the Company for a roof; and, with the same exception, all are equally independent for their supply of food. The demand for labour has been such, that the Company are seeking for more men at their rate of wages ; and even private employers do not find it the easiest possible matter to get their work dove. At this moment, just when the •cale was beginning to display an inclination to lose its equal balance, the Bolton has arrived to throw into the market an addition of labour, which will also, doubtless, be soon swallowed up, and a field opened for the emigrants of the other ships which are already on their voyage to this settlement. Thus, although we have »*ever been obliged to pay exorbitant colonial wages, yet full employment has never been wanting ; and the prophetic confidence of the Company in our success will keep us sufficiently, in advance of the demand for labour to prevent that worst of evils, a body of labourers who are daily exhausting the resources of their employers. There is work to do, and plenty of it ; and as each new field of employment presents itself, a supply .of labo^ arrives to fill it. We ha.ye already four of which are in a state of fi#W|p3liii», ' and from one of these bricks have^oeen already supplied, of which chimneys are now being I>uilt. We expect it will not be long before we see brick houses rising on every side of us. In connection with the subject of progress, ' w« ax* happy to be able to tell our readers
that the Company's agent has made arrangements with private' surveyors to protVthe/!taying out of the country ■ : securing. Tlie T j?articulara of the contracts 1 as to the portion of *tand to W surveyed aim the time at which th£ surveys are to he soncluded, will be mentioned in our next.. This morning, Mr. Tuckett, the chief > surveyor, sailed in the Rory O'More for Massacre Bay, on an exploring expedition, for the purpose of ascertaining more fully than has hitherto been done the capabilities of the land in that neighbourhood, both ps to its geological productions, and its fertility as an agricultural district. We anticipate the most encouraging result to this trip. ,
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 2, 19 March 1842, Page 6
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