The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 202, 6 May 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

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SATUR D A V, MA Y (i, 184 8.

Tin: piesent position and futuie piospects of New Zealand aie cheenng. Tin 1 «;ir of laces may be said to ha\e ceased. Knoll lias eithei happily been quelled, 01 become extinct fioni a lack of necessaiy fuel. E\en lleke, — the Jlotspui Heke, — finds it less his '• cue (o light," than (as a Scotchman would say.) to i'U'hch ; whilst the acute lefleclne Maone disco\eis 1 hat it is fat nioie imiomi'mu.p, to i>r,\i, with the European as a fiiendlhan pleasant to engage him in hostile conflict as a foe. Peace, we lejoice to say, pi e\ ails • — and we fondly hope, and liunly hehe\e, is likely 1o pievail. Wheie\ci and wheue\ei conflicting land claims — those eankei woims to all piospenty — ha\e been satisfaclonly and equitably ad|usliml, utilisation has uisiiinlly commenced, — pushing Ms soual influence, into many a '• happy \ alley 'ol oui fell tie isle. Flocks aie on Ihe mciease, and cattle aie multiplying on every hill. Blessed with plenteous, nay abundant, supplies of the many good things of life. — with which a beneficent Pioudcuce has endowed her — surely New Zealand should be as contented, as she is destined to be gieat and piosperous. We this day, continue our extracts fiom the Blue Book of 1817. ll will thence be seen that the Taianaki land question if not finally adjusted, has been digested of much of its intricacy ; and, in consequence, the impediments to the extended operations of the encigetic settlers of that /lounshing di^tnet, in a great measme icnuned. This, coupled with the Go\ernor's s.itisf.tctoiy aiiangemcnt of the Company's othei claims, added to the practical lCAocation of Kail Gri.y's protested waste lands institutions must, we concehe, go far to set the native mind at lest, cornincmg them that whilst England will sanction no '•spoliation.'" of iiifir possessions, she will not, on the othei hand, peimit them to attempt fraudulent lesumption of lands faiily purchased and honestly paid for. The one gieat desideiatum, common to New Zealand, and the neighbouiing colonies of eldei bhlh, is an accession of immigrant capitalists, immigrant yeomen, aili/ans and labouiers. For agiestial and pastoral enterprise, she piesents a fair, a feitile, and an ample' scope. She is neither desolated by the fiery si ioccos, winch, in an hour, annihilate the piomise of months to the Australian faimer; nor aie her corn closes paiched and shrhelled, as is too frequently the case, with those of the Tasmaman husbandman, who with aching heart, is forced to behold the stalk, by nature designed to shoot, burst into a dw arfish prematurity, and all for lack of the moderate moistuie his cloudless skies deny. New Zealand knows nothing of this. She is equally blessed with the former as with the latter rain. Her seasons are gentle and genial. Her soil may fearlessly compete with the most favoiued of Van Dicmen's Land, w r lnlst from the gi eater pievalencc of moisture, the crop which in that colony is too frequently a failiue, m this is all but an absolute ceitainty. The cost of redeeming and enclosing the waste lands of either is neaily alike ; but there is this singular contrast in the aspect and capabilities of their rcspeetne seaboaids, namely, that the enthe coast, at all events of the northern island of New Zealand, from Cape Mai ia Van Diemen, passing thiough Cook's Straits, and thence to the Noith Cape, is gifted with an excellent climate, and a more oi less luxuiiant soil, w r heieas the entne lange of the western shore of Van Diemen 's Land is notoriously inclement, densely timbered, intersected by w r eary andwoithless morasses, Hooded by impetuous and impassable mountain toilents, — in a w r oid, the whole tenitory, designated Transylvania in the chaits, is from its altitude above the sea, and frigid temperatiue, hopelessly incomeitible to either pastoial or agncultural pursuits. The aiid plains of New South Wales and the circumscribed limits of Van Diemen's Land being thus banieis to extensive husbandry we may, without being deemed invidious, be peimitted to point to the vast and valuable aiea which New Zealand piesents. With a climate of unrivalled salubrity — with a soil unsurpassed m fertility — with an extent and facility of water carnage, unknown to her competitor, she is surely entitled to challenge investigation as a beneficial emigiation field. But these aie not hei sole advantages. Hei geographical position is not the least important feature in hei future and eaily piospenty. Placed within easy access of the islands of the Pacific, and those islands year by year becoming civilized, (if not colonised) by an extensive intercourse with England, America, and France, a great and pioh'table outlet must of necessity be found ior the provisions Avhich New Zealand, may be made to giow in almost unlimited quantity. The difficulties attendant upon extenshe and successful colonisation, hitherto, have been of manifold chaiacter, — the (head implied by

the unions ALioii it 1 volts, and the entanglements caused l)y that Imperium in Impcrio, I In* Now Zealand Company, who by a seiies oi plausible pietexts, and by the seduction ol high and ho no in able names, as hose possessors, as individual gentlemen, would haw shrunk aghast from commission of the baiefaced deceptions, which as a coipoiaie body, they sciupled not to effect — these ha\e been among the blights that have checked the piospeious caieei of a colony which m spile of e\ery impediment must and will " Am \nct " Pel haps no momeni could be betlei chosen lhan the piesent foi enngialion to oui shoies We ie])eal, lebellion is ciushed, and Nalue cupidity and industry is becoming paiamount to Native pugnacity and hostility. The Warfmti n self suppoi ting fallacy has been blown to (he winds, and the colony is now c\pei ioncnig that natmal and just suppoi t fiom the Paient State which if aw aided m the fust instance would have a\ cited much of the confusion and bloodshed wheiewith we weie neaily ovei whelmed. Men's eyes too aie opened lo the Company's past mis-deeds, and, by fnipei ial edict, a cinb has been placed to a\cil then lecuiience. Immigrants have thus a chart to steer by and a pilot lo keep them clear of any futuie nianccuues. The Company's "\icfnns — like all eai ly coloniseis — ha\c been valuable pioneeis for those who may succeed them, who without the hopelessness and he.ntaehe, and at a tithe of the outlay, may icap the lunu\st which they have sown. lleiealtei we shall ha\e a woid 01 two of comment upon the exorbitant — we may say impossible — price affixed by Captain Giey upon Ciown Lands. Whatever the motive for this prohibitory estimate, the effect, we fear will prove most desliucthe to our piogicssion. The Australian colonists clamour and complain, and with reason, at their lestriclive minipum. They, however, possess atemtoiial levenue for Immigration puiposes of which we aie debaned. The tide of emigration is once moie setting in strongly and steadily towaids then shoies. With a like fund, and with equal, if not superior, inducements to the oniigi ant, would the tide to New Zealand prove less ample 1 We have as yet but touched upon a subject whose impoitance claims a searching and elaboiate investigation — a duty, to which we intend devoting our eaily and earnest attention.

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