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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 46, 26 January 1842, Page 2

All countries have hitherto passed through series of marked epochs or conditions, both in their mercantile and manufacturing districts; and

it is our duty, therefore, to form as correctly as we can, conclusions from past experience. It is not, however, necessary to revert for example to the great nations of antiquity, as it is a wellknown matter-of-fact, that excess of luxury, and its natural consequences—licentiousness and debauchery—were in all cases the proximate causes of their ruin and destruction. England, our mother country, has severally passed through, several great epochs; one, pastoral—one, warfare and politics—and is now evidently in the wane, arrived at the last state —the mercantile and mannfacturing, and one which must sooner or later ultimately lead to decadence. It is a state dependent on other countries, being one of competition with the ingenuity and industry of other nations entering the same state, and the whole of whose capitalists avail themselves of every improvement of the more advanced community. It is at this present moment, a state contingent on the ebb and flow of all human events, and is liable to be shaken even to its very foundation by a rupture of the present peace, or almost at the voice of any other European power. Our statesmen have wisely provided various fields of emigration, for the supply of raw commodities, which ought to be independent of other nations, and which sources would again require those same commodities in manufactured forms. New Zealand will, in time, should the movements of Government become more liberal, be a splendid field from which to receive such supplies; and should this Colony be supported by the Home Government with liberal and enlightened views, it must eventually become one of the greatest means of support to the Mother Country. New Zealand is now fast emerging from barbarism, its first epoch, into civilization ; the Aborigines are commencing to value the gradual influx of the Whites, and as they disperse themselves through distant parts of the country, so will civilization rapidly increase.

We all have noticed with what quickness of intellect savages copy the manners and customs of Europeans, and it is our duty as Christians, to set them such an example immediately, as may be beneficial to their civilization, and diametrically opposed to the barbarous habits and usages in which for years and years they have been steeped : by so doing, they will quickly learn to adopt our wants, and thus should any enterprising capitalists, for example, wish to export a cargo of indigenous produce, or any other staple commodity, by trading at various places on the coast, such a cargo is easily procured, and the very circumstance of inducing the Natives to labour, conduces to their civilization. England never yet has planted a colony on the principles of sound policy, justice, and science ; but we do hope, that although the colonization of New Zealand was commenced at Russell under unfafavourable auspices, that still the site of Government being removed to this place, they will see their former errors, and so soon as the transit of emigrants from home is direct, by reducing considerably the price of land, this, oqr adopted country, must rapidly advance and prosper. Ail emigrants, with the wants of the inhabitants of the land, naturally look for the mercantile exchange by which both are benefited ; and so long as our numbers and riches are on the increase, so great must be the demand for the products and industry of both .—Communicated.