To the Editor of the New Zealand Advertiser & Bay of Islands Gazette.

New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette, Volume I, Issue XIII, 3 September 1840, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Advertiser & Bay of Islands Gazette.

SIR, I .recollect your stating a sliort time ago, that you could not publish a list of prices current at .present. Now, without either'this or; something to aqswer the same, purpose, 1 presume you. are aware, that .a paper cannot be complete without a thing iso necessary to commerce. I must therefore think, that you are wrong in not publishing such prices as you cau get, or else coinmercjalists are for pii vate reasons keeping you in the back-ground on file slibject. Of course Ido not presume to choose between these alternatives..If I may expect that you will .insert this letfer in your Journal, I will venture t<> put down two or. three prices, retailj by way of example for you or others ; . and I do hope that, if the tiling can be done, jt will lie. If you, .will not publish this letter, you may aVw'ell state for the information of the people of oilier Colonies,-.ijtat Bread is uniformly ils. Oil. tlie 4ib loaf* Pork is sold by tlie butchers, at 7d. per lb. Excellent Cork biitfer may be tidd al 2s- The beef and mutton are. utmost wholly in'tlie liandsof the .'Vliesio’n.iritis. Potatoes -Is. a basket, but they are not itpo l. Perhaps some .Ixy-ly will fur-t.i.sh a.better list next week. —Tom’s, etc., XXX. [We publish the above letter, tliat oujtrading friends may judge for_.thei.uselv.es on the subject.. Our correspoiple it c.-iniiot have been long .here, or lie .would have known that ours is rio easy tusk.' "We'h.tye only, to say, as we .have s.iid.ueipro,' lliat there being no market, authentic prices are noL procurable by us, amt liiai iliis a vei'y datiierous Vhiitg to publisu lalse cjnes. ~VVe shouhT.be very mticli obliged by a' st:jte tmeiit from any one winch inigiii tie rened oq. -Ed.] " " ' To the liter of the Ann.- Z man. I A 'dccrt hvr y liag of Inlands (Jazt iUi. Sut, — Now' limt this place is so cousideranly increasing, it is much lobe desired that a oouiplefe suivey of tlie town-hip should tuKe place. I nave heard if conlieiitly stated,, that a casto-udi juse is to be cl -

erected here. It pet haps Government will.-on lhc ; request .)f ihe iuliaKithnts, mi-, dertaki-i tii :> Survey. It must hot be supposed : to be strictly a fl'i'finnm-iit: ciincern. It is not like d place, whidj, 'till taken iip by .authority; belongs todio'iiody; that is,' to no private "parties; Here >s 'property recognised, ; nn<l ‘whatever 'survey may take place, can proceed only on, iVit re-' cognition-. The editveiiieii.ee of buih'.ings already erected must therefore be iii so:»g mea-nrd a guide for a survey," iii laying out streets, Ac. On this mid varioiiV accoutlts it cariunt. be expected that ‘ the Government will iiiterfere with the matter but by special request, and in couformfty with such rules ad the proprietors of .ihe ground may wish. 1 ‘ l am aware t!iafc : a sort o;f survey has already taken place, and that' are in some measure m irked out. I3nt there are not many persons who intend to erect buildings,'who are quite at ease bn'that account. A survey is wanted which shall set all doubts : 'at rest respecting the boundary lines of streets, tffc., that if any person wish to erect a house he may have-.the chance of placing it-to the best advantage liis property • will, nfford'. I- feel -stiongly disposed <o think, that were this done, the plaoe would increase in at least a double ratio. What I urge, then, is this—that the-in-habitants should immediately unite in adopting some plan to effect a thing so-ex-eeedingly 'important to Kororarika. IF they will not, on themselves : must iest tlieblaihe aud the consequences. The present moment is weighty with the interest^.of this place ' ' I do not undertake to ’recommend tq them one plan in preference to 'another. All. I have to say is, iliat the people must bind themselves'by some legal act to a<lliere to the survey, they haye, themselves chosen. ‘ There has .beeti.a strange necligeuce heretofore—let it continue no.longer, I am, Sir, Ac., D, Kororarika, Ist Sefit-