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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 August 1842, Page 3

New Zealand.— Recent letters from New Zealand are any thing but complimentary to the parties who have encouraged emigration to that quarter, and among these the promoters of the New Zealand Company come in for a fair share of condemnation'. The idea of colonising such a barren waste as Port Nicholson presents, and the inapplicability of the soil to agriculture of the various localities selected for the raising of towns and townships, are treated as barefaced imposition, on the public, who are strongly advised if they have capital at stake not to embark for this destination, since they would surely find on their arrival the uselessness, of their voyage,, and the necessity there would be for their immediate .departure, if they wished, to secure their, own comfort and happiness. , In no degree, it is said, does New Zealand possess advantages for agriculture and commerce, and as to trade with the natives, such a source of j profit is deemed to be beyond the bound of: possibility/ as they exhibit much repugnance, at the encroachments of the few settlers who have already arrived, and would, it is believed, make no ceremony of an inroad upon then’ locations should increased attempts be made to subjugate their 'territory.- The natives are not the docile and well-favoured race the agents who beat up recruits for the service state; they have been found to.be vindictive in the extreme, and have in inore than one instance fulfilled of -what was said might be expected [

Irom them-when “ the reign of Tobacco arid blankets” was over. In some settlements, thbse comforts which' are regulated by an habituated course of life, such as good provisions at reasonable prices, an = abundance? of ' . water, and other adjuricts/of domestic economy;' can scarcely be hoped to be fouri’d/on'’a scale at all appro&ch'-i ? ,ing those enjoyed at borne, and h&nce it is not surprising Y •that complaints are made of the iIT condition?:,of the .. colony in this respect, but the exctfcive prices:charged' ; for these articles, described, as they are;- 4 (of the lowest - r quality arid most .unpromising appearance,” seemrto/be : : what ought not in all to be the case, when the price of labour range in, proportions -Times. . '• • -Lft-'V./d •■ ■, .'-'A::./ ... v ■ -v:i-.. SYDNEY COMMERCIAL TIEPORT ; FOR THE WEEK. E^.M,,,s‘r||[iNST^ : ' Business of all kinds flat, presenting little worthy of p articulart’notice .■ Wheat and Flour.- ih. of Valparaiso wheat realised, under theffiammer, 6s. per bushel. Few private sales are making, Imd prices: at the mills remain as last week, viz., fide',2.os.,^seconds'l6s. and 17s. per 100 ft. . - ■ Provisions. — Pork —The: Jenjand has materially lessened. No sales of quantity a£e reported. , Suyar. —The cargo of the iGhlnar'e has passed into other hands, and the major part resold at £2i /per tom 150 tons of ordinary and good Manilla found purchasers at from £22 to £24 per ton.- The market is pretty well stocked for the present. Loaves. —The Colonial Refining Company being now nearly prepared- for work, prices gave way a' little. Seven tons of sound quality obtained 74d. per ih., and I7hhds. of sweated 'Sfd- per Ih. -It i& understood the company have 200 tons ’of/raw sugar on the road from Manilla, whiclr may immediately be expected. Tea.—The series of Hyson skin amount to about 400 chests, ranging from £l, 10s.‘to £T per chest. Sruall parcels of Pouchong are taken at 60s. to 70s. per box of 20 catties. Of this class of tea there is a great variety of quality in the market. For Congo, £9, 10s. per chest has been refused.