New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, August 2, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 314, 2 August 1848, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, August 2, 1848.

We have often been amused, in perusing the Journals from the neighbouring colonies, to observe the complacent self-satisfied tone with which they regard their own particular sphere, and their attempts to depreciate their neighbours, particularly New Zealand, towards which they affect a sympathy not easily to be reconciled with their ill- concealed feelings of jealousy and dislike. Frequent instances of this may be met with in the Herald and other Sydney papers, and though we have sometimes noticed their misrepresentations, we have more commonly treated them with silent contempt. In looking over a recent file of South Australian Gazettes, under the head of New Zealand we find the following morceau quoted from the Melbourne Argus, with the hearty concurrence of the Editor of the former Journal, who considers the proposition to be one of great humanity. The Editor of the Argus in alluding to the expected arrival of the first body of settlers at Otakou, observes — 41 We are disposed to think that our merchants have been guilty of much greater departures from the strict rule of right than they would be if they had vessels in readiness to bring off the whole of the people who are to be entrapped into this mad project. All past experience has shewn that New Zealand can never be colonized without a war of extermination with the natives; it would, therefore, be serving the best interests of humanity, and equally benefiting the immigrants and this province, if our suggestions were acted upon." The dishonesty of this crimping project is too glaring to require any comment, its gross ignorance is not less obvious. Experience, to which these Boeotians appeal, shows that the New Zealanders with few exceptions, if fairly dealt with, are not only disposed to be peaceable, but desire the presence of the settlers among them ,• that during the late disturbances the great body of them adhered to the Government ; that from one end of New Zealand to the other peace isestablished with every prospect of its continuance ; that all the settlements are steadily prospering ; and that the great want in them is labour, for which they offer higher wages and greater inducements than can be found in the neighbouringcolonies. Referring more particularly to the settlement in question, if a war of extermination with the natives were raging in New Zealand, it would not affect Otakou where there are few or no natives. One thing at least would be necessary to the success of this crimping scheme, — the consent of the Otakou settlers ; and even with their present slight acquaintance with the climate and capabilities of New Zealand we greatly doubt their desire to exchange their newly adopted country for either of the colonies in question ; nor do we think the large admixture of Exiles, Pentonvillians, or under whatever other name the emancipated felonry in the Australian colonies rejoices, (which, on the confession of the journals to which we have referred, is to be found in the population of those colonies), would prove an additional inducement to the newly arrived Scottish emigrants to cast their lot in among them.

Coroner's Inquest. — A Coroner's Inqnest was held yesterday at the Cotta-je of Content, before Dr. Fitzgerald, Coroner, on the body of T. O'Loughlin. From the evidence of one of the witnesses it appeared that deceased left Mr. Rhodes's wharf for Okiwi, to which place he had recently removed, in a whaleboat in company with another man on Sunday afternoon ; he appeared sober at the time. His body was found the next day by a policeman, about two miles beyond Ngahauranga, the boat was turned bottom upwards, and the rope of one of the sheets was found round his neck, the body lying as far from the boat as the rope would allow. The body of the other man has not been found. The jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned." The deceased has left a wife and four children.