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AKAROA.

(From the Correspondent of the Lj ttelton Times.) There is one part of the Canterbury Settlement well known by name to our colonists, but as yet visited by few of them ; we mean Akaroa. Founded and fostered by the Nanto Bordelaise Company, this place is a striking . proof of French deficiency in the qualifications necessary for colonists. Brought from France at the cost of the Company, supplied with provisions for fifteen months, presented with four acres of land each on the single condition of clearing it in a given time, some of tbe settlers have not yet, after the lapse of so many years, completed the

cultivation of the small plot. Latterly thneighbouring market offered by Lyttelton has aroused some little energy amongst them. Tbeir gardens are beginning to prove that tbe extraordinary tales told us in England about tbe productiveness tf the New Zealand soil were sober realities. Sight only could convince us that peach trees year after year would bear some hundred dozens of fruit. Of the excellence of tbe potatoes, lettuces, asparagus, peas, cherries, &c., we have had the best of all proofs, taste and experience. Th? harbour of Akaroa is the best in New Zeal an-L Formerly i: could boast of the presence al one time uf several French Men-of-War, at) ’ ,tve*j or eight Whalers. Now it is a rare thing to see more than two small ; vessels at anchor. Had Captain Thomas I been assured of the possession of the Penin- ; sula by the Association, he would have made ; it the port, and then how different its appear- ' ance. Eight land purchasers have fixed tbeir j residence in Akaioa or its neighbour hood. These gentlemen are preparing, assisted by the older settlers, to build a small church i and school. They are also;petitioaing the chief Agent to afford them a shorter and ■ easier bridle path to Port Victoria. When this shall have been cut, and the Nelson i steamers be plying from port to port, hotels i and boarding-houses will rapidly spring np, bathing machines willjappear on the beach, and crowds of visitors escape from the mono- ‘ tony of Chris’.chnrch and dust of Lyttelton, to enjoy the pure water, cool breezes, abundant I foliage, and varied scenery of the fashionable ) watering-place of Akaroa.

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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 673, 14 January 1852, Page 3

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AKAROA. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 673, 14 January 1852, Page 3

AKAROA. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 673, 14 January 1852, Page 3

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