CAUTION TO COLONISTS AND EMIGRANTS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 35, 29 November 1842, Page 2

CAUTION TO COLONISTS AND EMIGRANTS.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Colonist.

Sir, —Having been greatly inconvenienced myself by false representations made to me by Phillips and Tiplady, brokers, in England, I wish to warn other colonists and emigrants by my fate, and I have no course so good as your paper, which is much read by parties at home who are desirous of settling in this Colony. I, as well as many more, left England, under the most solemn assurance that the ship we sailed in would call at Nelson, on her way to this port, and that we should be landed there ; instead of which we have been brought here, and will by that means lose five of the best weeks in the year for farmers, besides suffering many other annoyances. There are among the passengers for Nelson in this ship, possessors of 1,200 acres of land, who would be employing at this time from twenty-five to thirty men, a thing to be considered I fancy, if the accounts we hear, from that place be true. Now, the advice I would give .to persons who come here to. settle would be to have all transactions, between them and the brokers, in writing , and especially to have the port at which the

ship is to call first specified, and in no case whatever to rely on verbal assertions however solemnly they may be made. I think they would find it worth their while to have their agreements looked over by their solicitors, that there may be no inaccuracies. Hoping Ido not trespass too much on your valuable space, I remain, Your’s. &c., Constantine Dillon. ' Ship George Fife, ' November 25, 1842.