The New Zealand Herald AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1867.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1190, 6 September 1867, Page 3

The New Zealand Herald

AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1867.

SPECTKIira AGENDO, '• Giyo every man thina ear, but f.w tlsy voieo : fcfceh ;n>.n's C6C6ore, bat reserve thy judgmi-Et. This aiove all,—To thine own self be trna &nd it most follow, as tho Dight the day, Then canst net then tc falas to any man."

When tho Flax Hackling Benevolent Society was first established, . Mr. Henry Chamberlain was the first to start tho subscription hst with a subscription of £10. That gentleman's liberal example has been warmly seconded by the public generally; still, much remains to bo done. The application for hackles is four times as large as was expected that it would have been, and equally as far beyond the power of the committee to supply. Yesterday, Mr. Chamberlain called at our office and expressed a desire to further aid the Society by the advance of a loan, without interest, in order that the very pressing necessities of some of theunemployed,and especially of the Waiuku immigrants, may bo at once relieved by the extended operations of the Society. Mr. Chamberlain left us a cheque for £o0 as a loan for tho Society, and stated that if within a, short period a further sum of £100 can be collected in. subscriptions from the public that" be will advance a second loan of the same amount, and on the same pterins. This liberal' offer of Mr. Chamberlain's will enable the Society to fit out at least three more companies of nine men each. Wo trust, too, that the collectors will meet with such a response from tho general public that the Society will, within a few weeks, be entitled to claim the second £50 from Mr. Chamberlain.

There is one condition with which Mr. Chanibelain couples his loan—that the society shall, from the £50, supply ten immigrants at one of the Waiuku settlements, with eight hackles and steaming apparatus complete, in addition to the company of ten men, at the Kohikohi settlement, which, it is expected, will be provided for by the joint exertions of the Waiuku settlers and the Auckland society.

"We may here state that during the course of yesterday, a gentleman residing at Waiuku, called and assured us that there is so large a-quantity of flax growing at Waiuku —the flax fields extending for miles—that there need be 110 apprehension that the location of two companies of Auckland men at Waiuku will use up all the flax growing, ill the neighbourhood. Wo are glad to learn this, as arrangements having been entered into to send these two companies to Waiuku, it would have been very incon-

venient for the society to have altered their destination. Two of the men of these companies are indeed Waiuku men.

There was yesterday left at this office a hackle, manufactured by Mr. Case, of Wake-field-street, exactly similar to that made by Mr. Ma.sefield, for £2 10s. Mr. Case offers to supply these in quantity, say an order of half a-dozen, at £2 ss. each, or, with shorter teeth, four- inches instead of six in length, at £2 per hackle. Tho longer teeth are no advantage. Wo understand that the society will give Mr. Case an order for twelvo such liacklcs immediately, and wo liope that both Messrs. Masefiold and Case will be kept busy for some time in supplying the orders of the society.

A\ r c were, yesterday, shown samples of twine, cord, and pack thread, manufactured from New Zealand llax, at the " New North lioad rope, twine and mat manufactory," conducted - by Mr. William Matthews ; all thrco articles were of tho first quality and finish. The fine ropo suitable for washing lines, supplied at Gd tho length, was declared by a large dealer in tho article to be worth three pence more than tho imported article of the kind which he sold at 9d, and tho twin© was more like whipped than ordinary twino in quality, and could be sold considerably cheaper than imported twine, aud then at a larger profit. The ilax from which theso articles wero produced was propared at Pukekolie, and purchased by Mr. Matthews lately, at Mr. Sibbin's Auctionroom, if Ave recollect rightly, for a triile under ;61S per ton. We wero shown a hank of the flax from which tho goods were made. It is a good clean sample, and something similar to a sample formerly exhibited at this office, and which we handed over to a gentleman who sent it homo to a commercial house, and received a lettor in repl} r , stating that it was worth, at home, e635 per ton, but, if supplied in quantity and continuously, that it would j bo worth d 65 per ton more.

In concluding, wo would earnestly appeal to tho general public to second tho efforts being now made by tho Society to provide remunerative employment for the destitute. Thousands have been spent in maintaining paupers during the past two or three years ; one-hundredth part of tho money thus spent, had it been laid out in tho manner tho funds of the Flax Hackling Benevolent Society aro being laid out, would have left no man at the present time without employment, cxcept thoso who will not work.