ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 9, 17 June 1843, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

I To the Editor of the Southern Crost. | Sir, — I huve observed in your paper, that you i jiave adopted the missionary way of speil>ng theaboiig. lnal designation of the -natives of New Zealand~ ; Maories, which our English friends would call Mayors. They might fye led to do so, because, es there are said to be kings and prince here, there is «bo a large aristocracy of mayors, besides shirtless chiefs, without number. But Sir, the native calJs himself moury, and his language moury. We Anglicise many foreign names, especially Flemish and Italian ; then what have we to do with missionary twists of plain English sounds ? PiofeESor Lee did very well to introduce the Sanscrit, or Frankish mode of spelling the unwritten diaiec s of the South Sea, for ihe facility of missionary comma. uica:ion. But in the present day, we may almost regard New Zealand as the natural inheritance of Englishmen. The Natives subsist on ihe food we have brought them, pork and potatoes ; and till we came, they wandered over a fair portion of the earth, without knowing the use of it. Before that, the only animals they had to eat, except themselves, were rats, and tlieir only fruits, poor wild berries. Notwithstanding, we are at present under a cloud, or rather I might say a pother, from the lesser gods, we are the prospective denizens of this soil j and is it | not better to have the Eng.ish language introduced inbtead of the meagre Moury ? Had the missionaries been directed to teach the Native children English. | instead of leaving them to barbarise it into a patois, | their civilization would have been more advanced than it is. They might have learnt to read useful books j of morality and religion : acquired a taste /or in- : dustry, honesty and veracity, as well as the heaitmoving influence of demotion. Some of the misskmry natives lately asked me, if the Comet wasn't Jesus Christ i Yours, June 14, 1843. ORTHO. To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — It is not my intention to present you with a get phrase of laudation on the commencenient of youc paper, but only to tell you that you have the hearty well wishes of all of us who are doomed to be settlers in New Zealand. — Your paper, in its present promiie, if not the bent in the Colonies hereabouts, is equal if not superior to any in point of interest. You may depend upon it we will support you with our pen and with our purss, as long as our soi disant mas'eis, (masters, eh }) will give us leave to have a purse. Be assured there are gentlemen in this Colony, men of sense and spirit, who will always be abie to assist you aa \' r-&zr -&z as you pers-vere in your present course, — and be assured, with their coalition, ere long we shall obtain agt^eramtnt worthy of beinz upheld by all. A. government may exist among a people in defiance of public opinion, but it is only the infamous representative of tyranny. — When our present troubles subside, and we have more leisure to cultivate the arts of peace, your paper wiH be enriched w»th our researches in Agriculture and Science, A SETTLER. June 15th, 1843.