AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 50, 20 January 1843, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

The following account of the rapid distribution of the immigrants by the Duchess of Argyle, Jane Gifford, and the apprentices by the St. George , we copy from our contemporary the Auckland Mangle, who states that the sawyers found quick engagements on the neighbouring coasts and rivers : that carpenters had no difficulty in finding work at 6s. per day, and that shoemakers, tailors, and bakers, have found good employment, we suppose at the like high rate of wages, which he does not state. It will be observed that good farm servants are engaged at 20/. per annum and full rations. In our last Mangle but one, we spoke of the almost instantaneous facility with which Auckland had disposed of the unexpected freightage of the Duchess of Argyle and the Jane Gifford, and promised an account of their distribution, which we now give. Our readers will observe that the immigrants’ engagements in service, at the present moment, are quite free of government assistance. It may be worth while to notice, in reply to some ingenious remarks of the Wellington press, that, when Government works are to be done, and paid for by Government funds, it can make no difference to the jealous watchfulness of the distribution of Go-

vernment .outlay, who are the labourers. Roads and bridges, wharfs and landing-places cannot be made without hands, and as Auckland was destitute of labour, to carry out the most necessary and obvious purposes of public exigence,—Auckland became of course a proper field for the introduction of population, and Auckland is solicitous for more. An account of the distribution of the Immigrant Passengers by the Duchess of Argyle, Jane Gifford , and the apprentices, &c., by the St. George : — The sawyers quickly found engagements on the neighbouring coast and rivers ; carpenters have had no difficulty in finding work at about 6s. per day; shoemakers, tailois, and bakers, have found good employment. Good farm servants have been engaged at about 20/. per annum and full rations, —most of these near Auckland, a few have gone to the Bay of Island, and there is room for many more. The female, domestic servants, and semptresses, all met with good engagements in the. town and neighbourhood immediately, except a few who were bespoken for service at the Bay of Islands. Several of the wives of the farm-servants, and others, have been engaged in the country, and all of the sons, able to work, have employment. All others who have not found inducements to make more permanent private engagements, are doing necessary government work, by contract, which there is room for many more to partake the advantage of. All the free lads by the St. George are engaged, and most of the apprentices have been placed; the remainder continuing under the charge of the SurveyorGeneral. It will be seen by this that Auckland is not destitute of those resources, which enterprise and a hearty purpose are able to hold out, to the assistance of a willing industry; and, if there have been a momentary check to the castle-building expectations, which Wellington puffery gave birth to in respect of all New Zealand : it is only in the nature of things that it should occur, and not in the nature of the people or the capacities of Auckland. We designate the arrival of the emigrants by these ships unexpected, precisely because of the long delay, which in this case, as ever, has characterized the government proceedings. Our settlers were, by this reason, unprepared for such a God-send at the moment, but they have not been tardy in doing justice to this the first instalment, usefully paid, of the large debt, contracted by the British Government to our Emigration Fund, —a .debt, if possible, more than ever, sacredly due to us, because of the profuseness with which we have bled, under the lancets that the pupils of the Wakefield (Sangrado) system have wielded so successfully.

Under the administration of Sir Robert Peel, and the management of Lord Stanley, we look for measures better founded (upon experience instead of theory), we expect some demonstration of respect for the wholesome, though homely, maxim—“ look before you leap,”—the disregard of which, precipitated the needy greedy Whigs into the pit-falls of “ Self-sup-porting Colonies,” “ Land Revenues,” “ Upset Prices,” —(to tumble fifty per cent, upon the first shake !) —“ Adjustments !of Land Claims,” demolitions of contracts completed, expensive Protector-ships of Aborigines,—and all the other absurdities which have arisen from the theory of commencing the foundation of a Colony, by taxing the capital of*its first settlers, and imposing a fine upon labour.