The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1862. THE NONCONFORMIST SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1722, 10 September 1862, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1862. THE NONCONFORMIST SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

Be just aid tear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy Country’s, I'liy God’s, and Truth’s.

The magnificent clipper ship Matilda Wattenbach, Captain Goodie, with the first and "head quarter division of this body, was signalled from sunrise and throughout the whole of Sunday; owing, however, to light airs and calms it was past 8 o’clock on Monday morning before she fetched her anchorage off the Queen-street Wharf, which was greatly crowded with throngs of spectators. Notwithstanding the loss of her main and rnizzen topmasts, in a high sea and with a sudden shift of wind off the Cape of Good Hope, the Matilda Wattenbach has accomplished an excellent passage of only ninetyeight days from the Downs. She has arrived with three hundred and fifty-two passengers, all well, exclusive of a ship’s company of thirty-eight officers and seamen. There were five deaths and two births; but the general health of the ship, under the careful supervision of Dr. Bell, and under the able management of Captain Goudie and his officers, was excellent. It is further most gratifying to be told that no ship has ever conveyed a more united, more orderly, or more hopeful body of colonists to these shores. It is proposed we learn that the immigrants shall be despatched to their place of settlement on the Kaipara without delay, and, if possible, without the labour and expense which the discharge and reshipment of luggage and goods would necessarily involve. To (his end arrangements have been made by which the passengers are allowed to remain on board in the harbour fora few days until they can be, taken with bag and baggage from the ships side into the smaller vessels by which they arc to bo conveyed to Mangawai, the habour on the East Coast nearest to “ Albcrtland,” and from which there is a practicable road to the head water of the Oruawharo. The stout little paddle wheel steamer just purchased by an enprising firm in this city for the Coromandel trade, has presented herself opportunely and, we learn, has been chartered to take the pioneer detatchment to Mangawai on Thursday next.

To-day, at eleven o’clock, an address of welcome is to bo publicly presented to the new-comers on behalf of the people of Auckland. Temporary accommodation for the meeting has been provided on the open space in front of the Council Chamber, and the occasion promises to be a kind of festival. We rejoice very heartily to think that the voices of the mischief-makers and the croakers will be drowned in the general and loud expression of the satisfaction which the addition of so large and respectable a body of settlers will make to our wealth in population, and that the hearty sympathy and encouragement which will be offered will cheer and strengthen our new friends in the work to which, with deliberation, they have set their hands. There is a word ot advice which we offer to the men of the labouring classon board, and that is, togivc little heed to the stories which they may hear from the Laszaroni of the wharf and of the street corners. We recommend the strangers, when they want information, to seek it at the right source; if they desire to know anything about land, the officers of the Waste Land department will willingly supply the information; if they desire to learn the rate of wages, and the nature of the demand for skilled or other labour, they will find in the immigration agent, Mr. Lusk, a kindly and patient gentleman who will listen to and help them, and the benefit of whoso experience, as a colonist, will, we are sure, be readily accorded. Already indeed, as we learn with regret, the old story which has been told to the passengers of every immigrant ship which has arrived in Auckland during the last five years, has spread uneasiness on board the Matilda Wattonbach: “ the land,” it is said, “will grow nothing; the settler will starve,” &c. &e.—the old tale which we have so often had occasion to refute. It is right that the new arrivals should know that there is a fantasy nursed amongst a section of the labouring classes here, which leads them to

regard every new arrival as a kind of natural enemy, a competitor for work, of whom it would he their interest to got rid if possible, and it will be to the interest of the strangers to bear this in mind. It is probable that those who may seek to deter the labourer or the mechanic from proceeding to the Oruawharowould themselves be very willing to become participators in the advantages which that settlement so surely must offer. Every precaution and care has been exercised by the pioneer Agents and the Government to ensure the success of the project. Abundance of land of more than average quality has been set apart; the situations of the projected settlements arc unrivalled for convenience, and for facility of water communication; judicious organization, capital, and labour are about to be applied under circumstances the most favorable to the work of settlement, and that work can fail only by the disruption of the whole arrangement. The welcome then which will, wo are sure, be so heartily accorded to-day may be taken as the expression of the public confidence in the soundness of the scheme of settlement, as well as the expression of good wishes for the prosperity and happiness of the individuals who have set themselves to a noble work the dilliculties of which only those who have experienced thorn are able to realize.