New Zealand Gazette AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR Wednesday, July 3, 1844.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume V, Issue 351, 3 July 1844, Page 2

New Zealand Gazette AND WELLINGTON SPECTATOR Wednesday, July 3, 1844.

NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY.

A branch of the New Zealand Society has been formed at Nelson, and we have been reijd^otcd co iu-ge ihe propriety of forming a Committee here, to correspond with the parent society in London. At present persons interested in New Zealand mainly obtain their information through the New Zealand Company. The Company have exhibited so much ignorance of our affairs, that they are a sorry fountain to depend upon for knowledge ; and we may rest assured that the absentees will never obtain any information through that channel, which maybe attended with trouble or annoyance to the Company or its agents. A better proof than their tendency to the very conduct of which they complain in the Colonial Office cannot be afforded than by iheir mode of dealing with the New Zealand Journal. Because that paper has made statements more likely to be useful than agreeable to the Court of Directors, it is evidently discarded. Though strictly the organ of the New Zealand interests in England and most ably and efficiently conducted, it contains no information about the New Edinburgh settlement. For information on New Zealand subjects, mainly furnished by the Court, the pages of the Colonial Gazette must be examined. We take the opportunity of stating that we wish, the Court, in its corporative capacity, possessed as much originality and acquaintance with the wants of these settleraenis and with the real interests of the Company, as the Net' Zealand Journal. We trust the absentees will sustain that excellent paper, and we wish the settlers here were in a condition to afford it that support which is s > just y its due ; and they would have bten but for the ruinous influences and agency to which they have unfortunately so long been subject. Some time since, we read in a correspondence, the Company had with the Colonial Office, bitter complaints at the latter having refused to receive any communications from the former, having relation to local matters, unlessthey were first received at the Colonial Office, through the Governor of New Zealand. Though they have urged that this is mischievous and unjust, the Court play off the very same game against settlers and others who make application at Broad Street House. A settler submitted to the Court a matter concerning the preparation of flax, which originated here, and was told it could not receive attention because it had not been officially communicated. It was sent out here to be returned home officially, and we believe was officially communicated. We make these statements to show that it would be improper to regard the New Zealand Company and their settlers as one and the same thing. We are distinct, and very proba-

bly, as a consequence of the defects of all Company's, the Court and their Agents on the one part, and the absentees and the settlers on the other, will be seen to be taking widely-,different views, and very likely will be violently opposed to each other at no very distant date. We need a body of representatives in England, ami we hope the New Zealand Society will suit our purpose. They to be useful require to be informed of the condition and prospects of the settlements furnished them in the shape of descriptions and revievTs, from time to time, of every subject affecting our interests to an important extent. To furnish such information, a Committee should be appointed of persons able and willing to play their part with efficiency. We suggest, in conclusion, with the view to the formation of such a corresponding body, that some influential persons, should by advertisement, call a Public Meeting to be held at the Exchange, at as early a period as possible.