VAN DIEMAN’S LAND.
The papers from Van Diemen’s Land do not contain a very flattering account of the country, as the following paragraph will show— Quit Rents,- —His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, “ with the advice of the Executive Council,” has determined upon enforcing payment of the arrearage of Quit Rents. We recommend, his Excellency to try it;: the colony is at as low an ebb as it well can be, and the enforcement of the payment of the Quit-rents would be merely hastening the universal ruin which is hanging over it like a cloud, ready to burst. If his Excellency has faithful advisers, he will be advised to devise means to animate and assist the colonists—the enforcement of the Quit-r nts at the present crisis, will be to destroy four-fifths of them. The agricultural interests of this island cannot bear the imposition of any oppressive tax now. — Cornwall Chronicle.
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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 52, 16 February 1842, Page 3
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149VAN DIEMAN’S LAND. New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 52, 16 February 1842, Page 3
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