WELLINGTON CRICKET CLUB.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 29, 8 November 1842, Page 2

WELLINGTON CRICKET CLUB.

On Friday last, a meeting was held<in J | Ship Hotel, Te Aro, for the purpose of est Iblishing a Cricket Club, it was numeropsly a jtended, upwards of thirty gentlemen hoing pr jsent. • C. M. Pettny, ■ Esq.,was unkhihibus [voted to the Chair. The Chairman'stated tl objects of the meeting, and was glad to see ti caU. so unanimously responded tehe was coi fident of the (Ultimate : success of their'endd vours 'in establishing the old English' Cricket in the Colony. It was jthen" moved by Mr. David seconded by Joseph Boulgott;, Esq./ that H.I Knowles, Esq., be elected President for the.firi season. ' . i % Moved by Mr. William r Lyon, seconded,jj Mr. Jas. Xnglis, that Joseph ]) elected forthefirstgeqqon., v lifoved by G. B. ‘Virtue, Esq., seconded b Joseph Boulcott, Esq., that'Mr; SpH'/Wftlltici elected Secretary, - • *- V j , f t ,-.q; ; Moved by Mr. J. H. Wallace, seconded Mr. Jas. Ihglis, that Mr/William' Lyon P* elected Treasurer. . . . v>

by Dr. Stokes, seconded by Mr. Catch that the following gentlemen do form the Committee of Management:— Dr. Dorset A. Ludlam A. Hort Jno. Wade J. Inglis G. B. .Virtue D. Johnston jny three to be a,quorum. Moved, by Av Ludlam, Esq., and seconded by (j. B. Virtue, Esq., that the Gommittee be instructed to draw up the Rules and Regulations of the Club, and .submit the same to a general meeting. . • r On the.motion of Dr. Taylor, a vote of thanks #33 unanimously given to Mr. Penny for his conduct in the Chair; The meeting then adjourned. ___—o —*— DR. MARTIN'S PAMPHLET. As our contemporary the Gazette, in his last publication, has inserted the commencement of [long letter from Dr. Martin to the Right Hon. Bord Stanley on the effect of* a bad Government on. a good country, upon which we made observations in our number of the fourth instant, we' thihlc it but just that the public should be placed l in possession of both sides of the question, and we- therefore insert the following critique upon • some portions of the work, published by Mr. John Moore, of Auckland, in the Auckland Times. “ This is one. of the. paper, pellets of the brain, which Lord Stanley and other minister who may succeed him in his present office, must expect, from time to time, to be pelted with, in expiation of the offences of his predecessor, Lord John Russell. We are only surprised, that many such demonstrations have not made their appearance before, and we are thankful to the author, so far as .be has accomplished, it,, for the execution of that part of his object, to which, if he were wise, he would have confined himself, viz.; ajust and bold exposition of the unexampled system of' blundering which has marked every step in the career of the authorities, acting under home instructions, ever since they commenced their office in New Zealand. This was a fruitful subject of discourse, if he would have pursued it, and there was no occasion whatever for exaggeration in the exposition of it. The Doctor, however, has made it so evident that he writes with spleen and rancour, and he has so swoln, or distorted, almost every fact he has taken hold of, that we fear he: will get but little credit for the real truth. It is likely that the kernel will be lost in the task of extracting it from the ponderous husk in which the Doctor las enveloped it. This we shall have occasion improve presently, in the mean time we beg leave to make a few remarks, of our own upon Ibis subject; and will then return to the pamphlet before us. The islands of New Zealand are not now, for lie first time, that is,' since the Croxyn of Great Britain has been a party concerned, brought under the.influence of. colonisation- 1 the con 7 trary, as-the list of “ Claims confirmed” in the Government Gazette will show, they have, for very many years, been the'abode of British industry and enterprise; reports of the great capacity of the country had long- been rife in Great Britain, and* more- than one attempt had been made in London to set about a scheme ofits civilisation upon a properly organised jfian. Nothing,’however, of this kind was done, till the New Zealand Company,-whose-present head quarters are at Port Nicholson, commenced their extensive operations;* the great success of their schemes, assisted by puffing, excited the cupidity; of the pauper Whigs; the selfrsupportingtheories of Wakefield gave additional impulse -to their longings; Baron Thierry and the French Government seemed to threaten a rival claim; and the state of the people/at home, made everything that promised to .promote emigration desirable: all these motives combined, determined Her Majesty’s Whig -ministers to assume the sovereignty of New Zealand: And how have they exercised it ? Thfe answer is plain. Gulled hy the Wakefield theories, they have contemplated it only as a source of profit. and of patronage. They had read the. declaration of that pestilent, busy-body, Dr. John Lang, who ’leclared that the only British residents in New Zealand were runaway convicts from Sydney, and deserters from the whaling marine, who »ere practising every description of injustice and cruelty upon the natives; and catching at this, js an excuse, they perpetrated the monstrous of cancelling, one and all, the pi e-exist-ing land contracts between the Natives and the European residents, thus, at one blow, depriving very many industrious families, who- had been Ipug residents here, .of the. fruits of half a lifetime of active industry. Thejre were many intelligent speculators in- the southern hemisphere, *ho had,.foreseen that the colonisation of New Zealand could not be long delayed* and they mine here to make purchases of the natives, in mticipatlon of a demand for land, j some of them the. latest moment. They, too by this unNt declaration, are deprived of their acquired ; among these Dr. Martin is one. Do not N, my Lord Stanley, or any other of his toders, take him for an old settler, as he would be you suppose. Dr. Martin is one of the fte purchasers, but the British Government pve no more right to interfere with Dr. Mar-

tin’s purchase, made before their assumption of authority, than they have to deprive the oldest planter in Jamaica of his patrimonial estate. But the injustice perpetrated against Dr. Martin, as compared with that against many other claimants, is as a petty larceny contrasted with a capital felony. The British Crown having thus been metamorphosed into the only territorial possessor, as well as supreme ruler, of the new kingdom, of course it must' set up some form of government. We might have been forgiven for supposing that the one adopted would have been composed of persons/acquainted with, the state of the country; that it would have been somewhat conformable, in its machinery; and in its cost, to the circumstances of so young a place. . How far this obvious propriety has been respected, we are spared the trouble of detailing by the pamphlet before us. We only repeat ourselves, when We*say that the interference of the British Government hitherto, has been a check, and a liinderance to the colonisation of New Zealand, it has stopped every thing that was usefully and wisely progressing, it has afforded an opportunity to land sharks, by means of/- .the auction system, to,; fleece every bond fide settler among the liew comers, Government officers especially among the number ; and what has it rendered as an equivalent ? Have the Home Government been anxious to send a single emigrant to the Colony of their adoption ? No ! Have they shown a disposition to encourage emigration by a liberal regulation of the land sales, for first comers, who have all to do in the wilderness ?—On the contrary —the land regulations are formed only so as to serve the purpose of exaction. We laugh at them, however, as a thing gone by; they have wrought our ruin and their own burial at one and the same time. If Dr. Martin had dwelt upon these obvious topics only ; if he had relied upon the native strength of his materials, and not travelled out of his way, to indulge personal jealousies and dislikes; he would have been an able advocate, and we might all have been obliged to him. But he has neutralized his “ nostrum,” for Lord Stanley cannot fail to penetrate the feelings, which pervade every page and paragraph, and, after he has rejected his assumptions, and pared down his descriptions till he has reduced them to facts, he will doubt them so much, that we shall probably derive no benefit from his communication at all. “We proceed to suggest to the Author some passages that require, at least, revision.—ln the very first paragraph, the Doctor tells Lord Stanley, that ‘ the Government of New Zealand, during the last two years, has cost one hundred and twenty thousand pounds.’ His lordship is iu possession, of course, of more correct information than the Doctor can pretend to; it would be prudent, therefore, that liis first mathematical assertion should be correct, because upon that circumstance much of his future credit will be built. We only gay, we doubt the fact.

“ We next notice, for we go regularly through the hook, the circumstance of the Doctor’s actual residence in the Colony before and since the establishment of British authority. The information is scanty! how long before* ? If the Doctor wishes to enforce his claims, he must condescend to particulars —-it was the neglect of this obvious propriety, which gave him so much troubles with the, Chief Police Magistrate. “ Page 4. —The Doctor knows very likely, more than we do, about Port Essington, and it may he all correct, for any thing we know to the contrary, about our paraphernalia being upop that Which prevailed there —but we cdnteT to’ a dead lialt about the Mounted Police being recentiyfounded by Sir George Gipps; the mounted police were in active operation in New South long before Sir George Gipps set foot in Sydney! “ Page 7.—lt is raj%er loosely asserted, that fifteen or twenty tiio|isand pounds have been spent upon Government House. There is a greht deal constantly said about the outlay here, and there «# few local subjects respecting which we are more curious for accurate information. Fifteen or twehty thousand pounds! it is quite clear the Doctor tfonifc foil us exactly. “ We come now to Dr. Martin’s philanthropic demonstrations about the natives ; and we can fancy how he laughs in' his sleeve while he reads this over, and chuckles at the thought of a Downing Street ignoramus giving him credit for sincerity. Poor things ! how much they do require the Doctor’s protection agaiqst the wicked cupidity of the Local Government, who are so much frightened at them, but who are nevertheless able to bamboozle them with blankets! Pshaw! Why don’t the Doctor set forth the particulars of his own purchases, as fin "example for less conscientious mop. A 8 to, jarful massacre at flight as well blame the moon as thc.Qpxgxnor, Does he suppose that long-rootedi c^dins can be plucked by the word of eominahd, and forgotten, as if they had riever heeri. 5 Naturam expellas furefi, tamen osque ireciurrit. “ It will he many many years' hefprp we make even the immediate of pur own settlements as peaceable We come now to the Doctor’s accoppit jobbing of the poor officials, whom he mauls

4 most terribly, hot he should stick to facts. At paige 14, he talks about Mr. Porter’s purchase, of Mr. Shortland’s allotment; for 1200/., which cost about 3000/. Now, Doctor Martin ought to know; if he does not, that Mr: Porter's twelve hundred* pounds purchase included other bifid besides ' Mr. Shortland’s three hundred potmds allotment—he knows, besides, that improvements hqd been effected. It was known to Mr. Porter himself that the original cost and outlay was iear 700/.—we have nothing ourselves to ‘layabout the transaction, hut the truth should be respected. Tne uncourteous mention of Mr. Porter himself, that gentleman, we should hope, has the good sense to despise.— The statements which follow aresadly jumbled, we do not stop to disentangle them, but refer our readers to our paper of the 19th instant, in which we replied to ‘ Justitia* on this subject ; we notice, however, that Mr. Clarke aiid Mr. Cooper have got the whole of one bay, although Mr. Churton.has got a part of it 1 And a little further on, “ The fifth, or Iniquity Bay, sometimes called the Judge’s Bay, is entirely in the hands of the Judge and Attorney-General, who t have maiufested'ipyiare cupidifcy„than modesty, in appropriating to themselves the whole of this lovely bay.”' Th<? fact is, that this lovely bay is a place so inconveniently situated, that if they had not gone to live there, from an especial desire of retirement from the town, nobody else would; the bay contains, at least, thirty acres of land, of which the Judge and Attorney-Ge-neral have three each! The Judge’s land has not a water frontage l So miHh for the iniquity of the thing. “ Page 15. —‘The best lands that were exposed to sale, in accordance with this plan, were all withdrawn without a single offer, excepting j two which were bought by the Colonial Treasurer.’ The Doctor knows that this is not correct, for he caricatured the last land sale, in his own office window, with the Colonial Treasurer as one buyer, and Mr. Porter as the other! These are’ some of the inaccuracies of Dr. Martin’s statements—we have not space now to pursue the subject, but may perhaps return to it. There is no quality in a public writer so necessary as disinterestedness; but the author before us betrays his bias, we were going to say —we mean his total one-sided preponderance at every step of his argument. We bow in reverence to the Doctor’s superiority—>a common genius takes pains to ascertain, but a superior mind assumes. There is a deal of patriotism, which will earn a deal of popularity in this pamphlet; but to produce any advantageous effect upon the mind of the nobleman to whom it is addressed, it must carry home more of that useful ballast —* Proof!’ Dr..Martin!s assistance upon general views we shall acknowledge with gratitude upon the part of the public of Auckland.’* ■ The Convict Francis under Sentence o'f* Death. —After his conviction, he appeared completely unnerved, and it was nearly two days before he recovered anything like composure.* He is now, however, much restored, and exhibits much the same appearance he did previous to the trial. He has been removed to the cell he occupied before his conviction, and turnkeys are with him day and night, as is customary fh the case of persons under sentence of death. The Rev. Mr. Carver, ordinary of the prison, visits him several times in the course of every day, and the prisoner has frequently expressed his gratitude to him for the kindness and attention he has paid to Him during his imprisonment in Newgate; and* although, of course, the rev. gentleman has refrained from questioning thdjifetched young man in relation to the charge of which he has bCen convicted, yet it is said that Fmncis has frequently voluntarily brought up tire subject, and has all along persisted in declaring that there was not only no bullet in the pistol, but that it contained in reality nothing but a small charge of gunpowder and some paper, attd that he never had any intention to* hurt the Queen. He appears now to be fully alive to the consequehces that might have resulted,from his crime, and his conduct and demeanour While in the prison, have gained the good opinion o£ all the officers and the other, authorities' With WflfolA he haS hfeeji brought in contact. 0... — THE UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. The fourth annual meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia waU hetd at che offices of the Company.on 'pfcttU&ajfr when it was stated that, the universal depression. in which iho** Austyalian colonies have been involved, the losses on- their business operations have been of the. mostinsigifificant character. The report of the Diin alluding to tne present qtaty, of the colonies, remarks .that it is confidently expected that the difficulties of the precept period will',be attended with a beneficial inflblhce oh and produce a much more systeni of pealing. The rise oftirese ; odjofiies, $ was marked by a rapitaltbg^hCTydthquhprecedent; and the con‘SjKt th ( e' 'entire'community heeibessiye spe'/they were Unprepared for that wl»ch along!*home necessaiily

j produced; and in this state of things the directors had instructed their officers that they should not only afford the usual encourage- ' ment to business, but also aid the customers of the bank in sustaining their credit as far as was consistent with perfect security to the company and the pubjic. The net assets of the bank are stated to be 825,624/ 3s. 9d., including the profit foi* the year ending the 18th, instant, which was 82,099/. 3s. 9d. The reserve fund is calculated at 19,687/. 16s/ 4d., in addition to 64,109/. 13s. lid., the balance of undivided profit, of course deducting the sum required for the payment of the dividend of 255. per share on the secondaries, which are made payable in London on the 7th of July next, and in the colonies so soon as the inspectors shall fix after the receipt of advices. Just before the meeting broke up, one of the directors stated that the advices which they had received from Sydney tfiat morning to the 18th of February, gave an encouraging description of the prospects of the* bank, and of the revival of the trade. As an evidence of the sound policy on which their officers conducted business, he was bound to state, that in one of the largest failures, in* which it was supposed the company Would have suffered to a trifling extent, it was now found, in an investigation of its afiairs, that the securities held by the company would discharge the debt due, and leave a considerable surplus in addition, to be paid over to the assignees. The other business of the meeting was the pro forma re-election of directors, &c., which was concluded in a most amicable and friendly spirit.— Times. 1 .

In a former number we inserted a list of the officers supposed to be amongst the number massacred at Cahool in January last. In the Bombay Times we find! that the following is a complete list of the officers now known to have escaped, those printed in Italics having been returned either as “dead” or not heard of since the insurrection”. The Times observes, more may yet make their appearance, but there is much reason to fear that their number will be few indeed. At CabooL. Captain Drummond, 3rd Cavalry,—Hostage. „ Baton, Asst. Qf. Mr. General,—Prisoner. Surgeon Me Kinncr, in medical charge', -r-do. Lieut. Airey, H. M. 3rd Buffs,—Hostage. ~ Connolly, 20th N. I.—do. „ Warburton, Artillery,—do. ~ Walshe, 52nd M. N. 1.,—d0. „ Webb, 38th M. N. 1.,—d0. Asst. Surgeon Balfour, H. M. 44th Foot, —Prisoner. * Surgeoti Berwick, in charge of sick,—Prisoner. At Badeeabad. Brigadier Shelton, H. M’s. 44th foot; 2nd in : command at Cabool. jMajor Pottihgef, Acting Envoy. Captaih Anderson, 59th N. I. „ Boyd, 65th N. I. , v Johnstone (There being two captains of this name With the Cahool army, it is not clearly known Whether it is he of H. M’s. 44th, or he of the 26th.N. 1., who has escaped.) ~ Lawrence, Mil. Secy, to late Envoy. „ Troup, 48th N. I. Surgeon Me Grath* Lieut. Eyre, Artillery. Ensign Mien, H. M’s. 13th Regt. Fort 1 in Luuhman. Capt. Bygrave, sth N. I;, Pay Master. „ Gray, H. M’s. 44th; Foot. Fort or Tootoo. Major Griffith?, 37th N. I. „ Souter, H. M. 44th Foot. , At Jellalabad. ’ .> Asst. Surgeon Brydon, sth NM-.