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articles of export, wero also introduced, as well as the great extent of unoccupied land, and the fair prospect of success to all who enter the field with a fair amount of natural and acquired advantages. The great aim w-as to excite a healthy interest in New Zealand, and to give every information with reference to the country as the best field for British emigrants, and adapted as it is by its islandic character for a bold and enterprising race; and especially to the constitution of the British subject it was presented as the most favourable field for settlement. Besides, its genial and salubrious climate, it was shown, gives it a prominence pre-eminently above every other British Colony as the most favourable place for the location of the surplus of the British population ; for here in one part of the country we have softness and warmth beyond that of Cornwall, and in another the keen sharp frost and the leaden sky of Scotland. But there wo have neither the aridity nor the drought of Australia, nor tho wintry cold and severity of Canada. For although we extend as far north as the latitude of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, we enjoy in that latitude the gentle sea breeze by day and the laud breeze by night, and can ripen favourably the grape in the open air, and are thus in possession of a most delightful climate. Professional gentlemen and mechanics have had their attention called to New Zealand; and clergymen aud capitalists have made earnest inquiries as to New Zealand as the best field for emigration. But especially has tho tenant farmer had his mind called to our promising Colony. Tenant farmers who have from £500 to £5,000 capital invested in stock and implements on the terms of their landlords, and who find it difficult, as they say, even to make ends meet, with their most strenuous efforts and their most prudent and provident management, —such men have been told, if they will only emigrate to our Colony, aud, using ordinary sagacity, invest their capital, and put forth their energies, they will, before many years elapse, be in the position of the squires and landlords in England. The lecturer generally invited inquiry at the close of tho lectures, and found many anxious for information on minor matters relating to emigration, and had occasion to refer a great many to the New Zealand Emigration Agents. Ho twice visited the office of the National Labour League in Leamington, aud had interviews with Messrs. Taylor and Archer, the leaders of the great movement amongst the labourers in that district, and they promised to encourage farm labourers to emigrate to New- Zealand. The lecturer found that he had been preceded in several of the towns by lecturers and agents specially setting forth tho advantages and claims of other fields of emigration—Buenos Ayres, the United States, Canada, and the Ausfralian Colonies, had been prominently brought before tho public ; and a regular stream of people is flowing out to those places. In addition to the publicity given to tho subject of these lectures by the bill posting, the town crier, aud the lectures themselves, there have been favourable reports printed in a large number of newspapers —see extracts of some appended —some of which have a circulation of ten and twenty and more thousands of copies ; thus the subject has been placed in the most favourable light, anal then circulated throughout the country. The fruit of this effort is at yet but partially seen. It is true, several communications have been sent by way of inquiry, and many more parties have applied personally; some farmers have decided to emigrate whom it may tako six and twelve months before they may be able to deliver up their farms and leave these shores. Some have already left this country for New Zealand, having paid their own passages ; others have embraced tho advantages of the Emigration Office; and we trust that before long many others will follow in their steps, and New Zealand, which on the whole is so remarkably a promising colony, will soon quadruple its population. 10th October, 1872. G. Smales.

Enclosure 4 in No. 36. NEWSPAPER NOTICES OF THE REV. MR. SMALE'S LECTURES ON NEW ZEALAND. (From the Neicark Advertiser, October 0, 1872.) Lecture on New Zealand. On Friday last, the Rev. G. Smales, for many years a resident in New- Zealand, gave a lecture on that country as a field for emigration. The attendance was small, owing, doubtless, to the shortness of the notice, the lecture having been announced only at a late hour on tbat day. The reverend gentleman gave some interesting facts with reference to the size and character of tho country-, the quality of tho soil, the nature of the climate, and the number of its inhabitants—the population of the whole country, which is about the size of Great Britain and Ireland, being only 300,000, of which about 260,000 aro British, Irish, French, and German settlers, and about 45,000 are aborigines. He also spoke of the character of the Natives, and described them as very quick and intelligent. The reverend gentleman very humorously referred to the peculiar plan resorted to by the Maoris to rouse political excitement as being so different to the means emptoyed in this country to effect the same object. In New Zealand, said he, the skulls and bones of departed chiefs were collected and buried, women were appointed to " howl," and gash their bodies with shells, glass, Ac, as a kind of preliminary proceeding. After this, the Natives were gathered together, the skulls disposed in a row, and the women stationed behind them to howl again, and to recapitulate the brave deeds and mighty achievements of the deceased warriors, until tho requisite amount of excitement was raised to enable them to compass their designs. The reverend gentleman also spoke of the poetry of the Maoris, specimens of which he gave with great effect. He dwelt at some length on the advantages to bo gained by agricultural emigrants, both farmers, and labourers. Tho price of country, laud was from 10s. to £1 per acre ; town land fetched as much as £200 and £250 per acre ; and some building lots in Auckland made £1,000 per acre. Even as a money investment, land-buying there was profitable, and, if done with discretion, would quadruple the capital employed. He gave an account of the gold fields, and also some instances iv which poor men had rapidly made a fortune, while as much as £40,000 and £50,000 had been realized by speculating in mines. The reverend gentleman concluded a very able lecture by giving an account of the different