ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, Sept. 9th, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 743, 15 September 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPOND ENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, Sept. 9th, 1852.

Sir, — Would you oblige me by inserting in your next publication the following extract from a letter addressed to a gentleman who emigrated to the Canterbury Settlement some time since, to the editor of one of the provincial English Journals — and one well qualified to give an opinion on the subject of which the letter treats : — v October, 1851. " I am now residiug at for a- while. Another clergyman has been sent here to take the place of the one just leaving ; but I fear that he is not one who will care for his flock, or be liked by them. Most objectionable is the plan pursued by the Association (the Canterbury) of giving men appointments because they purchase land. Mr. Godley, Bishop Selywn, and the colonists generally, are decidedly- opposed to it. They say, let 'the clergy be properly selected, adequately paid, and then required to give their whole time to their woik ; not to spend it in increasing a small income by farming. They also object to appropriating so large a sum as £10,000 out of £23,000, belonging to the ecclesiastical and educational fond, to one object, — the bishopric, and to spending £1,500 in sending out Mr. Jackson, with no earthly purpose, it seems, than to draw out during the voyage plans for a beautiful palace, to look at a portion of his intended charge, riding on horseback, whilst Bishop Selwyn walked by his side, to induce schoolmasters to give up good situations iv England by the promise of situations which he had no power to give them here, to make himself generally disliked, and then to return to England, almost all hope never again to leave it. The fact is, they •re too well off here under Dr. Selwyn to desire to be withdrawn as yet from under him. The Canterbury scheme is a very mismanaged one." I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant, A Late Cantekbury Settler.