MR VESEY STEWART’S NEW SETTLEMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 316, 9 November 1880, Page 2

MR VESEY STEWART’S NEW SETTLEMENT.

The following extracts from a letter addressed by Mr Yesey Stewart to the Bay of Plenty Times will be read with interest. He has been so successful that we think it might be well to import a few Yesey Stewarts to promote settlement in South Canterbury

Not satisfied with filling the Lady Joc.lyn, I have this day arranged with Messrs Shaw, Savill, and Co. to follow the Lady Jocelyn by the grand ship Himalaya, leaving London for Tauranga direct on the Ist December. I have a lot of passengers secured for her, and some men with a pile of money, who I trust will be found setthrs in Tauranga district and subscribers to your valuable paper.

I think il is a matter of much importance to a rich and rising district like Tauranga to converge into its focus as much capital as possible, and with other ; rrangements I have just concluded here, i believe that a ship will be despatched to Tauranga about the mouth of A >ril. She would, however, arrive at the worst .-ea-cm of the year, perhaps in the pour of rain, which might cause bad impressions at (he start —and I. believe iu “ first impressions.” The date of the departure of the subsequent ship must, th refore, remain over for consideration. My only reason for starting a vessel from here every three or four monihs is to strike the iron while it is hot, and keep up the stream of immigration to our di-trict. My friends Messrs Shaw, Savill, and Co. do not care particularly about sendingships to Tauranga direct, as it entails a large additional outlay, and for cargo Auckland is of course the only port ; but surely some of our Tauranga storekeepers would find it to their advantage to order their goods direct from London. However as to succeeding ships the matter will be well looked, after by my friends during my absence from London, as I have made arrangements with a few capitalists to join me in the development of the Te Puke grant, and have formed the matter IPO a private limited company, which was yesterday incorporated under the name of the ■* New Zealand Land Corporation (Limbed).” The general manager iu London is Mr Maurice Grant, while 1 have been appointed resident director in- New Zealand. Mr Grant is one of the best business men I have ever met. There is no end to his energy, or to his means of'obtaining capita!.

All my arrangements and conditions j with the (government will he carried oat jto the letter of (he 'aw. All the laud uni sold we propose to clear, plough, fence, sow down in grass, and stock, doing the work by contract, which will circulate thousands of pounds in the district. We will then sell these lands as quickly as possible to persons in this country as grass lands. Wo also lake extensive powers under our articles of association such as lending - money on mortgage, constructing railways, steamers, laying down water-pipes, establishment gasworks, Ajc., I omitted to state that among the Lady Jocelyn’s passengers are a few young ladies who proceed to the Colony as governesses with different scales of accomplishments, but who go with the determination of accepting the first offer of re. speotable employment they may be offered and even to accept that of domestic servants. There are also some good trained servants (female). They have all been highly recommended to me and therefore if any ladies in Auckland, Tnaranga, or elsewhere require such I hope they will write to your offi e stating the terms t.hey are willing to give. I think it would be advisable to insert a few advertisements in the Bay of Plenty Times towards the end of November drawing the attention of the public to this, and I am sure my friend Mr Brett, with his well-known attention to the fair sex, will give our country women every assistance through the medium of his influential journal and insert a few advertisements gratuitously on their behalf. Some of these young ladies have scut me their photographs, and should any unhappy bachelor bo in quest of a good, sensible, and well-educated wife, be cannot do better than take up his quarters at once at the Commercial, Tan* ranga, or Masonic .Hotel; and wait the arrival of the Lady Jocelyn. The Lady Jocelyn leaves the East India Docks on advertised day, Sat uni ay, 25th September, for Cravesend. On Monday, 27th, we are to have a grand dejeuner on board (winch will be batter arranged than the one in Belfast) ; on the 28th September- she starts, and I expect will be in Tauranga by Friday, December 17th. So we will see if I am correct in my anticipations. She will probably remain in Tauranga at least 48 hours, and I expect that we shall meet many a jovial face during that time.