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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 1, 15 January 1859, Page 5

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By the-diminished production of these articles • in 1858. We heartily hope that this loss ■will be made up by. increased production during, the-present year, ayeap during which there is eertaia to be a very large influx of population into the Province of Auckland, and during which, and for one or two years lo come there will be a very great demand for all descriptions of food." We are happy, however, to find a liberal increase of 806£ tons potatoes over the export of 1857, shipped to Sydney, and the Eastern: seas. .And-sue are happy to learn that the coming harvest of this invaluable root promises to be the largest ever yet gathered in, the Northern part of New Zealand. Butler and Cheese-are also- increasing-, as articles of export; and a growing trade is rapidly extending, between the Nocthandtbe South. We have written strongly and' frequently m the hope of inducing, our native friends to turn their attention to ihdreari«g,and breeding of sheep and the growing of woof. In the Middle wliere the land is covered with natural grasses, the Europeans have imported thousands and tens of thousands of sheep, and are coining money by the exportation of millions of pounds of wool every year. Here, in the Province of Auckland, where the fern and the tee tree have to- be cleared and the land cultivated and laid down in meadow grass the process has been both slow and expensive; but, slow anl expensive as it is, the Europeans are about to reap the reward of their persevering industry. Their flocks are increasing; their pastures are growing broader year by year; and 35 one acre of made pasture will support at least five sheep, whilst (he natural grasses of the South will barely sustain one sheep to the acre, it will be evident that Sheep Farming in the North must go steadily and saiislactorily onwards. Our Native brethren will do well to remark, how rapidly sheep and wool increase when once a beginning has been made. Ten years since, there were fnw if any sheep in Auckland. In 4836, there was only 500 lbs. weight of wool shipped to London. In 1857, the quantity had increased to 49,545 lbs.; and in i 858 to 107,802 lbs., besides 48,555 lbs. shipped to Sydney. This is the way lo cause the country to prosper. Sheep furnish the best of food for the people; and in feeding over the ground sheep enrich it greatly forallthe purposes of agriculture, whilst their fleeces not only find a ready and profitable sale, but

fill our harbours with the finest ships that expend much money fbrallsortsofprovisions and other necessaries whilst they arewaiting to load and carry them away. We might write a greatdeal more toshow the satisfactory progress that has been made during the year that is gone; but it is quite Unnecessary: and we have reverted to the past to incite our readers, as they value their true interests, to be active and on the alert for the future. They may rest assured that if they be but active and industrious they cannot fail to be prosperous. Steam communication will be vigorously at work between every port, of New Zealand and the Australian colonies within a few months. For the harvest now in course of being gathered there will be a large demand; that off the ground, they cannot prepare too soon, 100 diligently, or too extensively for the following harvest;, for, as we have already said, there will more months to be fed, pour into New Zealand during the present year, than ever entered it since the first coming of the Europeans. The arrivals, since our last, have been the schooner Zephyr, 56 tons, Capt. Kenseit, with sundry merchandise, and 4 passengers from Melbourne ; the schooner Osprey," 47 tons, Capt. Bait, from New Plymouth, with 300 bushels wheat, 120 sheep; the barque Constantine, 608 tons, Captain Wrangles, from Morelon Bay, with about 500 sheep! out of 2000 shipped, the remainder having unfortunately died on the passage; and the steam ship White Swan, 530 tons, Captain McLean, from the South, with 380 sheep from New Plymouth, and 19 passengers. The departures have been the schooner Emily Allison, 99 tons, Capt. Wells, for Nelson, with 52,800 feet kauri timber; the brigamine Spray, 406 tons, Capt. Anderson, with 8821 lbs wool, 2| tons wool lashing, I 6£ tons kauri gum, and 1 passenger; the barque Breadalbane, 224 tons, Capt. P. Jones, with 50 tons kauri gum, 1 ton N. Z coals, 4480 lbs cheese, 112 lbs whale bone, £ passengers; the brig Gertrude, 119 Dunning, with 6 tuns black oil, 2 u,,»s kauri gum, 4j tons flax; and the brig Moa,- 256 tons, Capt. Bowden, with 21,585 lbs wool, 45 tons kauri gum, 214 hides 7 bales rags, 2080 lbs cheese, 450bushelsbran sundry merchandise, and. 34 passengers—all for Sydney. The Austrian frigate Novaia, 44 guns, also sailed on hei scientific voyage having first made a survey of the Drurv coat fields, and left Dr. Hochstclter, one of her

learned men, behind lo prosecute further discoveries for the benefit of this country. There arrived, coastwise, 28 vessels of 635 tons, with 75 passengers, 1599 bushels wheat, 50 bushels maize, 60 bushels apples, 80 quaris gooseberries, 2 kits cherries, 5 boxes eggs, 5 J cwt onions, tons potatoes, 9 cwt bacon and hams, 101 cwt salt pork, 430 lbs lard, 8 tuns humpback oil, 19 head cattle, -10 pigs, 1 horse, 15,830 lbs wool, 10 cwt flax, 12 tons kauri gum, 40boat limbers, 42 piles, 57 spars, 2500 shingles, 850 posts and rails, 1582 feel house blocks, 224 tons firewood, 56,500 feet sawn timber. The departures were 54 vessels of 800 tons, with 65 passengers and the usual trading cargoes. The following are the Market Prices Current corrected to date. Bread Stuffs. Flour, fine, 22Z. per ton. Flour, second quality, . . per ton. Flour, of native manufacture, from i 51 to J 8 Biscuit at from . . 245. lo 28s. per cwt. Bread per loaf of 21bs 6d. Bran is 3d. per bl. GROCERIES. Tea .... 9Uo 9 ,10s. per chest Sugar .... 7d. to Bd. per lb. Coffee .... iod. per lb. Rice .... 2d. to n per lb. S° 5 P.... 355. per cwt. Candles .... lod. per lb. Tobacco. . . . 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. Farm Produce. ™! eal •• . . Bs. 6d. per bushel Maize .... ss. 6d. to 6s. per bushel oats -7s. per bushel Potatoes (new) . . SMo si. 10s. per ton Onions . . . , 6d# per ]b Hay (plenlifnl) . . sf. per ton. Kauri Gum . . . 9Mo lOf.