COIONIZATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1181, 27 August 1867, Page 5

COIONIZATION.

To the Editor of the Hew Zeauutd Hebaxb.

Blfi, —In your issue of the 10th instant I find an aticle on Eeg'sSration, pointing out the very expense and round-about way at present in vogue, &.C. Eat now the gold-mania is Bet in, and that enchantK ord tingles in the ears of the Auckland people, to talk of any other matter -will bo, of course, out of JiSee. I would ask the old colonists to look back in the history of Auckland, and to that time especially 'iai eo many arrived here, having made their pile it afferent places and came to buy land whereon to Settle. Had they and all such bona Jide settlers been p.tpeily received and liberally dealt with, in other t[ rd>, had the real colonists—the men that Mn pJ snd cultivate the land—been properly tffiiidered and looked upon by the ruling powers, »'.h then and always, as the real wealth of the Pronto, how different would onr positions now have fen. No Maori war, most likely, and if there had with a considerable area of country cultivated fcw much of the money would have been kept here "t all parts of the world took from ps to victual the Very well, you say, everybody knows that, jW it's past and gone, but I ask, are we any wiser ™ our Nearly-bought experience ? I say ws are practically not; and I advance further, that, for tactical colonization, one-half of the population of Province have not plain, common sense. True, ja»y not have much myself, bat my idea of coloni"hon is, in the main, the occupation of the country . the wilderness. To bring about this . "Old be ihe all-important theme of our rulers; ,'Kaa of this there is not a class less considered the occupier of the soil. You can find money P-ay at railway-making, to build a breakwater *ould have done ten years hence, and other ™gs in like proportion, but you can find no money 'Hake a trunk-road through from Auckland to j through all the old settlements, in fact. °» can find no money whatever for country purPj'M, and for aught half of onr population (supposed jj. c , ni! ' s ) cares, the country may go to Hongkong. about registration; in this matter we are at E c J iUB disadvantage, and the Province suffers, and J nnmietakeably too, for our name is legion. For ol m" 06 ' our 6°W-field we say is a success—thousands ¥o ®"i, and children will be at the diggings, tea 88 *'th the army, so with the diggers. Tas- \ -Australia, and all parts of the world will get tjP rc " E ds. because we will not be able to feed ioia s 1° ou Ba y w h&t are occupiers of our Boil UJ" w 'll tell you. Bather than trouble to pay normr cs interest that the taking up of a little t 0 *onld involve, as you shew, they are content KntiJ 6 ' !?' ant ' wa *t for more liberal laws and better *ellv 10n * r ' Editor, lam an old colonist and 'he wants of the real colonists, who cqme t IT . 'h® colony to gamble in any way or every 01 E°ld, and arway. No,' this is our Sjj- an d the home of our children ; here we are 110,,®' and intend making, the desert to rejoice and iy" tt , a . a the rose; here we are planting orchards 'itrhiu 6 vineyards; and if we do not we trust *>the n ® fl y rea p tbefrnitof our labour. But Uc we aro ground down by illiberal ''a? fit ti° n i for what encouragement have I lie Eecn t W Eettlerß wto Bre **>le to g ive ten times fcaili- "/• tc do more than will keep our oiwn fee y® cannot gefea little money without ®, " eiD B swollen by fees to' 22 percent., " onr loss of time to and fro.—Yours, &e„ • j Old Colours*. ""»> Wade, August 14, 1867...5