COMMUNICATED.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 November 1842, Page 2

COMMUNICATED.

We have been honored with a perusal of a work, or rather communication, in the form of a letter addressed by an individual designing himself G. M. D. Martin, Esq., &c., with an endless variety of letters at the extremity of his name, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, entitled “ New Zealand in 1842,” or the effects of a bad government on a good country. The information afforded by this Dr. Martin would be certainly important, inasmuch as it is perfectly novel, were veracity strictly adhered to. Unfortunately the worthy M. D. P. N. Z. A. P. A. —discarded J.P., &c., cannot manage to throw a natural light upon any subject he undertakes. Every thing he views is conveyed through the medium of either a green or a yellow glass—sometimes both united. How a man professing himself one of the lights of civilisation, can barefacedly utter such “ pervertions of veracity,” we are at a loss to imagine, unless, indeed, the grapes have been too sour for him to swallow. The worthy Doctor, ing apart —is tolerably well handled by Mr. Moore, who, in a most good-natured way, states the actual particulars of many cases instanced, and by a plain statement of facts, well authenticated, destroys the illusion which the ingenuous Doctor sought to establish. Mr. Moore insinuates, “ in the most delicate manner possible,” that assertions possess no weight unless supported by proof, and the Doctor really draws very largely upon our credulity, when he intimates that the mounted police were established by Sir G. Gipps. Mr. Moore "ridicules, and with justice, the base assertion of the Government House at Auckland costing fifteen or twenty thousand pounds. We are not so totally deficient in knowledge of official business as to be ignorant that, with a very little trouble, the exact account of expenditure can be obtained, and wc will venture to say that it falls short of one moiety of either sum. The charitable Doctor then commences a violent tirade against the allotment formerly proposed to be granted to the Government officers being confirmed, forgetting, at the same time, that “ Conspiracy Cottage” was not one hundred yards from one or more of the polluted spots, and that the Government officers to whom th q boon or indulgence was granted, through “ undue favoritism ,” are considerably out of pocket by their purchases.

Mr. Moore has, however, handled the Doctor’s work with great temper; and in most instances entertained it as it deserves to be treated, namely, with good-humored and careless contempt.