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    elocutionized into a virtue . On the contrary , intelligent and well disposed , he is anxious to attract traders and settlers to

    Ms shores . " There is plenty of spare land at New Zealand /' say Honghi and Wykato , * two chiefs , in a memorial praying for miners , blacksmiths ,

    carpenters , and soldiers to protect the emigrants . George , "th , e most powerful chief of New Zealand , " expressed his indignation that Australia , with an inferior race of natives , should

    be preferred by English settlers . The plough is already used , and at page 230 of The British Colonization is a very interesting anecdote , which shows that the value of landed property is becoming known .

    There are nearly 2000 persons resident upon the island , attracted , as we have intimated , by the commerce already existing . Among * the shipping lists furnished by the resident correspondent of the Sydney Herald , the last , in the paper for May 11- 1837 , announces as arrived

    in the Bay of Islands , '; From Sydney , 10 vessels , five of which carry sundries for New Zealand . The others are laden with 3700 barrels of Whale oil ; from America 25

    ve $ Sjels , Containing 46 , 650 barrels of whale oil ; from London , 6 Vessels , containing 5966 birrek / : f l - - ¦ ' ; ¦ - ¦ ' , We subjoin some interesting imjMrt an , d ; import lists , vrmtik sJbotv that the amount of ti

    tralie is' far ^ bt jii cp > terilp ble . VJtiM Wp %£ t ^ overntteiit , , , . ' .. * r .

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    wliat might not be made of it ! From the Sydney Herald , % Ofh January 1837 . " 4 . Nimrod , 174 tons ; for New Zealand . 10 barrels and 4

    casks flour , 2 barrels ale , 3 hags , 1 cask , and 6 baskets sugar , 4 boxes candles , 3 chests tea , 13 boxes apparel , 55 packages ironmongery , 2 cases haberdashery , 19 packages stationery , 11 casks

    porter , 32 barrels powder , 1 case shoes , 3 cases and 2 hhds . wine , 1 bag rice , 41 packages hardware , 1 keg biscuits , 1 case groceries , 16 packages slops , 5 bales sacks , 1 package , a bell , 1 cask whitening , 18 cases oilman ' s stores , 8

    puncheons and 16 barrels rum , 12 cases and 2 hhds . gin , 2 hhds . and pipe brandy , 25 kegs tobacco , I cask medicines , 22 bundles spades , 2 cases pipes , 18 felling axes , 1 piece lead , 12 bundles and II bars iron , 72 iron pots , 20

    grindstones , 1 pair bellows , 2 bundles mast iron , 12 kegs paint , 6 boxes soap , 10 cases cigars . Passen gers , —Gordon A . Thompson , Esq ., Mrs Irvine and family , Mrs Harwood and family , itud G . Domingo /'—p . 349 .

    In other accounts we observe , 3 packages coopers' tools , 2 tons hoop iron , saws , 48 bars iron , 14 cases books , 32 bags

    sugar , 11 boxes soap , 13 bags and 10 casks salt , 18 grindstones , 40 tons empty casks , and 100 tons ehipty casks {(!) , and simi lar articles . i

    I > , j '_ f ' ' j ' ii 1 From the , $ ydn $ y fferafd , loth fyecenifjpr 1836 , i *' ¦! .- Sitf David Ggleby , schooner , 123 tons } from New Zea-264 , f i •' ¦ ¦ ' "( : r ; - ¦ ' : ' rr - " ' :

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    3 $ S The Colonization of New Zealand *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/52/