To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, June 12, 1845.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 91, 13 June 1846, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, June 12, 1845.

SIS IR ,_ One of the Hutt militia the other day picked up a cartridge which had been dropped by one of the rebels, and found the paper used was a leaf torn out of a maori bible. This is a use to which the missionary societies evidently never contemplated that these books would be applied, but it is as well to put the fact upon record. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, Heretaunga.

The following table is extracted from the Nelson Examiner. It is compiled from Official and other returns which have previously appeared in this Paper, hut we are induced to re-publish them in this tabular form, because it has the advantage of shewing at a glance the difference between the Southern Settlements and Auckland, which is in fact the only settlement at the North of any importance.

Referring to the above table our contemporary makes the following remarks: — "For our own satisfaction, we have made a rough estimate of the value of the property contained in the table. We have taken cattle at £8 a head, sheep at £1, horses at £15. Wheat, oats, and barley, at £6 an acre ; potatoes, £15; grass, £5; turnips, £15; maize, £10; hops,*£°o. We think these estimates are sufficiently low ; but, whether or not, it is of no consequence, as we have cal-

culated both sides of the account by the same scale, and the proportion, therefore, is the same as it would be on any other scale of value. The result is that the live stock and crops in the southern portion of the colony were in 1845 worth £108,745, while in the Auckland district their value was £36,982 ; showing a balance in favour of the South of £71,763." " Another rough estimate we have made of tha contparaiive amount invested in the breaking up and cultivation of land, including all outlay, such as fencing, farm-buildings, and houses in ihe towns. If we take these at the rate of £10 an acre (which, however, we believe is not one-half of the real amount), tlie resu't for the southern settlemen s would be £51,830; for the northern £19,850; balance in favour of the south £31,980. This is exclusive of any fixed outlay at the whaling stations, which is very considerable, and almost confined to the south."