First Symptoms of Restored Confidence in the Colony at Home, and Reviving Hope for the Colonists here.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 90, 20 February 1847, Page 3

First Symptoms of Restored Confidence in the Colony at Home, and Reviving Hope for the Colonists here.

An oterland mail from Taranaki arrived in town on Saturday last, bringing us intelligence of tho Elora having touched at New Plymouth •'on the 30th ultimo, from the Downs on the }2th October, after a fine run of a hundred 'and three days. She landed her mail, (the Auckland portion having come to hand,) and after discharging a few goods, sailed again on the Ist instant for Nelson, where she calls, as also at Wellington, before finally coming oh here. We learn that' there are some twenty Cabin passongers on board, eighteen of Uhqm being , for this place, some of whom are old acquaintances who return once again among us, bringing new friends along with them. This is a pleasing feature. We are ever glad to hail the arrival of new-comers, but when they are introduced to us by old friends, friends who for a* time have left us, and hare returned again to make this their final resting place* a pleasing proof is conveyed to us that our Colony and our Settlement are held in estimation. Of the already restored confidence in the prospects of this Colony at Home, we have now a first proof afforded, in the emigration from the Mother Country to our shores of so highly respectable and wealthy a class of persons us those about to sojourn among us. It is doubly pleasing to us, moreover, as our chosen settlement is the spot pitched upon as the scene of their future operations, for we thus have the satisfaction of knowing that at last the superior capabilities of this District are beginning to become known and appreciated in the Mother Country ; and we have tho novel sight of one of the New Zealand Company's packet ships arriving freighted witli passengers, not for their own settlements, but for Auckland. The Company have had good reasons for fearing the rival settlement, and full time was it for them to move heaven and earth to have the capital changed to Wellington. They have been narrowly watching, and they have discovered which way the wind was about to blow, and wisely endeavoured to mako u a board to windward ;" but they havo "missed stays," and before they can get weigh on again for I a second attempt, we will be far ahead. Without any powerful Company at our back, no New Zealand House in Broad- street, no hired periodical, but with all ihcsc influences used against us,our settlement has struggled through, nnd notwithstanding has raised its head, and at last has taken its stand before the public at home. The day of danger for us is now over. The fear that we miefht have been engulphed in the storm which the Company raised against | us, has gone by. Auckland has survived; has j become known as the most promising field of enterprise for those who intend adopting New - Zealand as their country ; and the more abuse that is now lavished upon us by that accredited publication the New Zealand Journal, the more attention will bo drawn towards us, and the more enquiries of comparison instituted rethe relative merits of the Government and Company's settlements. This is just exactly what we want ; the stricter the scrutiny the more prominently will the superior advantages of our settlement stand forth ; while the Company and their settlements will be thrown into the shade. Comparisons will become odious,and cease to be made against us, by the above journal of mendacious notoriety, for facts are stubburn things, and one or two adduced, and plenty have gone home, in contradiciion to the unblushing falsehoods from time to time given forth, will silence future repetitions. We only wish to be left

nlono; we have never waged war either against Iho Company's settlements or 9ettlers. Of the Ibrmer it is true we think but little, but we havo nover decried ; of tho latter we think most highly, and havo ever praised ; with them wo would join heart and hund in common cjiuso of our adopted country, and in none more willingly than that in which they arc now engaged—relieving themselves of the incubus of the New Zealand Company. Hitherto we hiivc found it a sufficiently difficult task to defend ourselves ; we shall confine ourselves ; as we have ever done, to defensive warfare ; and though (having just cause) wo may occasionally ring a note of self-praise, we shall couple it in chorus with no attacks either on our follow settlers at the South, or their settlements, being content that each should stand or fall according to their respective capabilities. We cannot but congratulate our fellow settlers here, 'on the change of fueling which is gradually taking place at home towards the Northern part of the Island, and the greater estimation it is daily assuming in tho minds of the English Public, from which we cannot but augur much of liopo and little disappointment.