Original Correspondence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 232, 19 August 1848, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

To t7te Editor of the Neio ZeaJantler. Sir,— The dearth in the labour marker, so destructive to the prosperity of Australia, and which has been so sensibly experienced in New Zealand, is now becoming perfectly ruinous. Agricultural servants are few and independent — and wages are at an extravagant figure. It is true that money haß been provided, and emigrants have been sent for. Nevertheless, whilst the grass giows — or, to speak more to the point, — whilst the land lies idle, the people must look elsewhere for supplies. But it is not merely in farm servants (bat we are so lamentably deficient— we lack also artizans and mechanics of almost every description : take, for example, brickmakers, the products of whose hands are so essential to change the stability and the beauty of ouf town, but whose price is so ruinous — Four Pounds per thouband was the sum lately asked— that we are, from sheer necessity, compelled to go on constructing tene« raents of frail, perishable, and perilous timber. Now, Sir, I would fain, through the medium of your page., call the attention of the unemployed artificers of the sister colonies to the fact that here they can find an excellent day's wages for a fair day's work, in cash payments and without deductions— and as the subject in one of public importance, I hope you will pardou me for enumerating the tradesmen and others of whom we stand so greatly in need: These are — „ Caipentera. Brick-makers, Brick-layers, Plasterers, Smiths, Wheel-wrights, Paint?r3, Tinmen, Tailors, Sawycu, Plou»hmen, Bullock- djivcrß, and Domestic ssivairts, eiHcwlly fenmks.

These, you must be w<ll aware, would improve their position by transferring themselves to our prosperous and healthy shores. Trusting you will lend a helping liaud in furtherance of so good a cause, I beg to temain, Sir, obediently yours, Aguestes. Auckland, Aug. 18, 1848.