No. 3. Copy of a Despatch from Lord Stanley to Governor Hobson. Downing-street, 15th March, 1842.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 39, 13 January 1844, Page 4

No. 3. Copy of a Despatch from Lord Stanley to Governor Hobson. Downing-street, 15th March, 1842.

Sir, — With reference to my despatch, No. 22, of the 14th ultimo, I transmit to you herewith copies of a correspondence between this Department and the Board of Treasury, from which you will perceive that the Lords Commissioners have assented to my recommendation for the appropriation to the purposes of emigration to New Zealand, of the sum of £12,000 from the amount reported by you to have been realized by the land sales at Auckland ; and have further intimated their readiness to authorize an advance of £6000 from the Commissariat Chest fund, to defray the moiety of the expense of the emigration under the Commissioners, which will be chargeable in this country. You will bear in mind the condition on which this advance has been sanctioned, that the amount should be forthwith repaid into the Commissariat Chest in the Colony, and you will take measures for that purpose. I have also to call your attention to that part of the enclosed letter from the Board of Treasury, in which they request that you may be instructed to make arrangements for the repayments, out of the first monies at your disposal for the general purposes of your government, of the imprests and advances which have been made for the service of New Zealand from the revenues of New South Wales. I have apprised Sir George Gipps that you have received instructions to that effect. I am, &c, (Signed) Stanley.

Connection of Morality and Comfort. — The more numerous the comforts, viewed as necessities by the great body of the people, and the further those comforts are removed from gross sensuality, the higher the moral condition of that people. The warm house, the neat furniture, the comfortable meal, the decent clothing, the well-weeded and flower-decorated garden, the favourite singing bird, and spaniel, and the small but wellchosen collection of books, are enjoyments beyond the means of the idle, and for which the tavern hunter can have no relish. — Outline of a. System of National Education. Custom. — Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth ; all is custom that goes on in continuity, all customs are not alike beneficial to us. — Zimmerman. Nothing is more dangerous than to judge a generous and youthful mind harshly ; it then is too easily acquitted to itself, and rises against suspicions it is unconscious of deserving.