DRURY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 156, 13 May 1864, Page 3

DRURY.

: * I ! I l-KOM A OJliliKdl'ONliENT.j L May V 2. Tin' oi' Uic miliary train th:iL llrrn duly ;tI l.iii.-s tviuij* J.ii! ly ;iif oiiififil into Am klaixl. 'i'iu'V march t<-ni< now al So cl<n-lv\ 1 and X". ■"> «•<Jinp;iity ot' tin 1 commissariat, tnin^l'-n't : corns will <lc duly hen* ii: their ]>l;ict\ ! Vlif rnmviM'iHlrnt til' I AV/r /!r,r/ t f,if/rr is mid'T ! ;i ini.-Uik-f in Mi;»i.o>in- tl: t tit" postal _nrdurlie> pay 1,-„L a .lav i'ui* lU' Sr ; all men <>{ lm: c"l"itial ; lnjc-s jvi.viw l heir rat iuli.*» and.'ts the i*« >1* »i* i: s 1 ■ d'-i'-itCL' liurc aiv *-in]iloy«■ d in doinjj that duty aL th:s i cam]) at piVM-nt, it jh-h warily l"l!ow.s they ! fur their rations ; il t!if regulars are e;u- ---; p]<<\ iii ««ti (In* s.izju.' duly they pay -3d. per day Ih»' i same a> all other l.i'uops 'jt t.hu lmo st'itiuncd m Nuw | Zu land.

TOBACCO. Tu the "Editor of tlio Zealand TTerajlt*. Siu,—when reading the letter from the correspondent; of "the So»t/ nr)/ c r o«* t dated Tau,tli, when describing {):«' fields cultivated with i nhaceo by tho natives, ho profosseS to tin? origin o{ tlit.* cultivation of Tobacco bv th<* natives, a?;d thf reason they £ive for introducing its .Growth inti• tM*'- '/OMTitvy. With all due deference t*> this s;s]-.'iiit covr-sicnHlenf, leave to eentradiet Hie slateiia p.t. F "have seen T'<haeeo ext«nMVei\' cultivated in nearly every district Mjroii£. p hoiit this island for the last -SO years ; and in many pans, especialiv in *"h'' interior, they have, for at least thf last 1(» years, m>'ipitaetured into neiiTohead. I hav' ! frequent Iv seen s».;n;- made up by thorn little inferior to the T<»bacco <>f e« rmur-r'-'-. The inland naliv.s have brought- laf/c quantities c.'.»»«if:nitlv to the coast tor hatter with the coast natives fur Are. The cultivation of the plant on the const nnv have iner. a>**'i within the pentul mentioned, but net wdh the intent of irn^v'iverishiny the Queen's revenue, but with a view of making themselves independent of the white man. It should l>e i r u>eml cied th it when l;ie estal-lisanvnt ot a native < h .vernfrvnt was iirst suuu« .-?rd to them, by a person then in authority, they w.'io recommended u to build a lariie hoiw.- ; no Km ope.-n materials was to lie u.-e lin it. They wore ,< i - ini» ;i veilr to make theniM-iv< s perf« -etly ind< -pendent." Tnr- is tile truth of te»- matter, hut the idea nj making tile (Jucer, tv*"!' by depiiviULT her of a few ]"'Uii'!.- derived iroiu a e(;,«. 1 .» , *i dutv liad lis in 1 lie ci;,( kesi brains of the con<- pun Arm of tin- I'/oss. My rea>"].s lor midiiiiir the above obsers are i'l'-t to shew that the natives have ruitlvalid the plant f«-r many years with success, and seeoiuilv that from I heir experience we may n. e that it inav he cultivated here with profit al>o. I have, A:c., Aumia. • id, TvTay 12th, lW!t.