NEW ZEALAND HERALD, AND AUCKLAND GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1842.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 44, 19 January 1842, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, AND AUCKLAND GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1842.

In our columns will be seen an advertisement containing a letter, signed, B. Q„ a series of resolutions adopted at a meeting of landholders, held at Kororarika, Jan. 3d, and certain opinions adopted at a previous meeting in the same place, with regard to that part of His Excellency the Governor’s speech, before the Council, relating to the settlement of the land claims of New Zealand. 1 We had certainly thought the bugbear held up in the first of these documents, that the natives are about to kill all the whites in New Zealand, and take the white women to themselves, had been sufficiently exhibited to have lost its tenors, and had become too stale to have been formally committed to paper and published as an advertisement. The natives are no doubt instigated to such acts, and such ideas are carefully instilled into their minds bv worthless Europeans ; but unfortunately for the writer of this ridiculous yet wicked gossip, we give below a translation of the resolutions agreed to* at a meeting of the principal Ngapuhi tribes, held atPahiha, and also a letter addressed to His Excelleucy the Governor, in which, amongst other matters, they distinctly disavow any intention of killing the whites, but wish to live in peace and brotherhood with them under Queen Victoria. It is not worth our while to treat the matter seri usly, farther than to censure in the strongest manner, these attempts to inflame the minds of the natives to commit acts of violence. The intention is palpable; it arises from a wish to embarrass the Queen’s Government, whose establishment in these Is’ands is hateful in the sight of t bese men, many of whom are ruffians on whom the law entails an intolerable restraint, or parties who imagine their interests comprised by the settlement, in any shape, of the Land Question. But we are glad to see that the traitorous designs of these people, for we can use no less measured terms, are defeated by the good sense of the natives themselves. They feel the advantages arising from the arrival of so many Europeans amongst them, m the high price they receive for their produce-j-in the ease with which they procure articles of comfort or of luxury. They suffer no expression; the Governor, indeed, is said to extend too much courtesy towards them ; portions of any land they may sell to Government are reserved, from the leasing of which funds are to be derived for their education and advancement in civilization. We maintain that their position willjjje daily improved by authorised colo_ nization, and they will have the sagacity to see it. We shall defer any remarks on the “ Resolutions” and “ Opinions” of the land owners at Kororarika, as they are to be presented to the Council to-morrow.