SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 11, 21 May 1842, Page 42

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

£ ARRIVED. May 18, schooner Blossom, Tulett, 44, from' Port Nicholson, with timber, pork, and beef; pa»sengert, Mr. Burt, wife, three children, and servant, Mr. Wallis, Mr. Warburton and wife, Mrs. Ellem and three children, Mrs. Heaphy and one child, Mr. Shrouder, and Mr. Jarvis. 20, schooner New Zealander, Guard, 27, from Queen Charlotte Sound, with pigs and potatoes.

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May 18, H. M. brig Victoria, Richards, 200, for Taranaki, in ballast. Brig Nimrod, Fox, 175, for Port Nicholson, with cattle ; passengers, Rev. Mr. Macfarlane and servant, Mr. Barton, Mr. Tod, X.P., Mr. Murray, and Mr. Barker. 19, schooner Wave, Cooney, 61, for Port Nicholson, in ballast ; passengers, Mr. Brown and Mr. Thompson.

IV PORT.

Schooner Jane. — b New Zealander, Guard. *£ -it — «—« — Blouom, Tulett. JMr IN boltoic mo a os. 4fc Ship Clifford, Sharp.

Les journaux deviennent plus necessaires a mesure que les hommes sout plus egaux, et 1' individualiame plus a craindre. Cc serait diminuer leur importance que de croire qu' Us ne servent qu' a garantir la liberty : Us maintiennent la civilisation.

D« Tocoueville. De la Democratic en Amerique, tome 4, p. 220.

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 civilization. Dr TocauaviLLß. -- ,

Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. 220.

Now that the immediate personal wants of the settlers are, to a certain extent, supplied, others equally important, and secondary only in the order in which they present themselves, spring up. The various secte of religionists require places of worship ; the men who, for a time fully occupied, did not feel the pressing want of assembling themselves together according to their custom in the country of-their birth, now that they are getting the home-feeling about them, again look for the weekly meeting, and are uncomfortable (some, perhaps, really unhappy) at being deprived of it. Parents, too, are looking for the means of education for their children ; and all the respectable portion of the settlers are most anxious for the establishment of schools. This is all very good — just as it should be, and no one who had the desire for the progress of education and improvement could well object to contribute his quota towards the attainment of these objects. Whether they desire this or not, they are not very likely to escape, for at every corner you meet a man whose laudable zeal has induced him to undertake the office of collector, and who, in perfect accordance with the proprieties, for, in these cases, it is a sort of duty to be importunate, presents a paper, nor leaves you till he has your name or your guinea, or both— iike the unjust judge, you must give in at last. *"

There is but one objection to all this that we are aware of; and if our readers will take the trouble to look in another column, for an advertisement of the New Zealand Company, headed " Original Advertisement," and will read the ninth term of purchase, they will not fail to see what it is that we mean. It would appear, .then, that every purchaser of a single section has already subscribed' £30 towards religious and educational purposes in this settlement, and it is not unnatural that a man should (buttoning up his breeches pocket) refer the zealous subscription collector to a certain sum of £30,000 to which he had contributed, according to circumstances, his £30 or £300. Is it that we have gone a-head so rapidly — have so far outstripped the expectations of the good folks in Eng- 1 land, that these wants have arisen long before it was contemplated that they would, or has there been negligence in not making provision for the immediate application of a portion of this fund to tbe purposes for which it was raised ? We do not pretend to determine, but most probably something of both. It appears to us that it -would have been a wise plan to have placed a small sum at the disposal of the Company's Agent, who should have been instructed to use it according to his discretion for tbe purpose of erecting temporary buildings to 'serve as schools and places of worship. If you meet a man — not a known grumbler, but any one " quite permiscously " — and speak to him of these purse- drawing papers that are awaiting him at every turn, he will begin directly to talk of the " education fund," and " why did we pay so much for

our land, if it was not to secure us all these things without further outlay ?" "I have paid once, I do not see why I should pay again," and so on. Most noble community of grumblers, why not act as well as talk ? We have had no reason to believe that the Company's Agent is wholly inaccessible. It is just possible that he might listen to reason, and that he would offer every facility which should enable the settlers through him to put themselves in communication with the Company on this subject. Suppose you were to call a meeting of landholders, or a public meeting. Something is to be done, surely : if not, at all events leave off complaining. Neither the Company nor the Company's Agent can be expected to help you if you do not help yourselves. If you do call a meeting at all, perhaps it would be as well not to confine your attention to the religious and educational fund alone, but to take some notice at the same time of another fund of

£20,000 for " the encouragement of steam navigation." There can be but little doubt, »we think, that the New Zealand Company would be very glad to comply with any reasonable suggestions from the actual settlers, as to the mode of application of either of these funds : the settlers have the best means of judging, and are the most interested. Can the authority of their recommendation be equalled by that of any other ?