The New-Zealander. Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country's Thy God’s, and Truth's. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 706, 19 January 1853, Page 3

The New-Zealander. Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country's Thy God’s, and Truth's. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1853.

We have the gratification of recording that the harvest work in this district is now •going forward, not merely satisfactorily, but in a manner calculated to excite lively emotions of pleasure and thankfulness. Since we last referred to the prospect of more than usually abundant crops, some anxiety was fell on account of the broken, and occasionally stormy, weather which prevailed fora week or two, and a prolongation of which must have tended seriously to disappoint the promise which had been so encouraging,---especially with regard to the wheat crop. But within the last few days a change has taken place which is all that the farmer could desire; and there is every

reason to aiuieipale a continuance of the brilliant weather with which we are so frequently favoured Jn this climate. The work of reaping tmd saving the crops is making rapid progress; and w'C’understand that; to aid in meeting the immediate demand for labour, His Excellency LieutenantColonel Wynyard has, with his usual kindly disposition to prodble the welfare of the country, permitted parlies of the troops under his command to engage lor the present in the necessary work of the harvest. From all quarters we receive accounts of the most cheering character, giving assurance not only of an adequate supply for the wants of our own district but also of an abundant supply of potatoes,, wheat, and other produce available for exportation. We cannot but gratefully''Rejoice hr this state of things as contrasted with the circumstances in which the country was placed only a very few years since, when we were ■ dependent to a. great extent on the neighbouring colonies for “ the staff of life,” and were therefore exposed to the uncertainties as to supply, and the fluctuations as, to price,# arising out of the contingencies of the New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Dajid markets; arid when, moreover, the'rfemuncralion Which our agriculturalists could calculate on receiving for their exertions was precarious and sometimes very inadequate. We trust' and believe that live day of the farmer’s depression has passed away, and that the of his prosperity has arrived and will continue to become brighter. Throughout the Auckland district we cap now sec on every hapfl a e l Videnccs of enlarged and improved agi fiKufal operations; an"d, simultaneously \viTßl|his progress, we have markets opened in which a paying price is secure. Still, however, there is ? a wide field for the further employment of capital and skill; amd what 4ias been accomplished is, after all, especially valuable as being an earnest of what we may reasonably expect to see yet attained, through the enterprise not only of our present settlers and their rising families, but also through the influx of new settlers, whom wc may look for. with confidence now that the resources of this Province are at length coining to be belter known, and more justly appreciated in the -Australian colonies qnd rin the mother country. '.O