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d from 
dress injuries which they have experien 
; and that they are neither unmindful nor un- 
teful for the protection now afforded them by the 
nt, wi seen from the enclosed copy of a 
letter which was recently sent from some chiefs near 
e Cape, which ied by presents 
of no tion of the 
reasons why the l be taken was given ; but I 
— the fact of g sent t interesting 
and shows clearly that the natives generally en- 
— no feelings of Postility or dislike to the Govern- | out 
ment. 
It is well, indeed, that natives are thus wise and 
8 for other documents show that the 
tlers sometime them cause enough to 
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residents may choose to allege * the New * 
landers. Captain Otway, who was ordered to 
a into some grievances which tied reached the 
of Government, reports that— 
"a The Chiefs es e 1 7 Wangaroa, and 
Chief Nopera r some time on 
GARDENERS’ 
‘is 2 to o be almost immediately ately occupied pied by y sheep 
— 
ost important part of the latter has since 
io. 2 
As the e gr 125 majority of the land questions 
had formed subjects of dispute and ey eae a aey ve 
iform system of a vations from them such districts 
in their Lona fide possession as may be required by the 
Government is adopted, that no further disputes or di 
Grey to Zeri Gre 
een decisively vive 
e | by Major Marrow, the “lice in comman of the 
are daily employed u 
the Royal Engineer EPIR 
men are, in some kinds of skilled hitar, already equ 
= a. ect of the ——4 of the white 2 trespassing 
k land, doing serious o their erops of and that they have p 
10 gag &e.; they said the ple do not work under th rintendence of the offi the 
their land, nor do they consider that any fences Royal Engineer Depart But this report mentions 
that the 8 . a a p coul h b ther facts, still more in ference to the 
and ranging t country, | character of the native population ; for it appears that 
The chiefs are mildly on the subject, asking how they out of 67 men who have been Ms Major 
were to be remunerated for these da eared | MarLow, on one work, there was not one who 
read hi lan 
amages; they fi 
the 
ey prom 
power to prevent breaches of the peace, hoping that hi 
y the Governor would support them in doing | 
so; and each of these chief well as the white 
eit 
respecting trespasses, 
HE 
I learnt the 
rarse e g koe that when his people com- 
veers ome by cattle belonging to white 
in particular, did 
— if it were equivalent but rat 
tion 
ts of 
stated r ze third sup- 
existing difficulty, to ee it is to be he 
we may never again have oc to refer; for we 
— that his that his Lordship would desire to 
— in khe d isgraceful notoriety of Archbishop | f 
ALE, 
_ And now let us iat upon the other side of the 
eture. 
It is in evidence that New Zealand dboun s in 
limestone and coal, two 
ent on 
by experime 
board er 
command to be at le east oqual to the el of Syne. ee 
„From about equal quantities equal w 
,, the Nel- 
pe om a pit like ar coal of 
The n n salubri 
25i E of grass * 2 are all siete 
8 ay 
ported to contain— SS 
“ Eighty t 
thousand acres finest 
and about 240,000 aeres rs ofthe * 2 e finest agrioultural land land, 
of coy 3 by the 
o the 
n of 1 — 
the 
could not ime ** 
ir | moi pa er. 
his | àmon 
is own language, and only one 
It also appears that, d 
5 e case of drunkenness 
e dierri employed by the Royal Engine 
Department, and that many of them lay by a portion 
hog’ wages ; that one of these men has purchased 
his sa 
y savings, and that eight other natives 
have _ sammie 15 
they nt into the interi 
breeding from 
than 
them. owes nothing can 
the testimony borne by Major Martow 
pat the moral and religious character of the natives in | 
more 
of affairs, a přosperity of the Colony is n 
any 1 2 chance of i jer. 
| In the words of Captain 
0 3 bes vib of these islands, are 
erce 
warlike spirits who ma on partial 
I do not see any probability of & of any exten- 
sive outbreak ever again taking place. The rev 
ort ath 1 is a rapidly inereasing er kas 
(from 6422 to 36,0004. igoa and as the 
present system of taxatio 
n- | Contentment, but generally afford me the m 
ar assis 
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rospect for a 
no for la 
pang RE THE EMIGRANT HAS MOST TO HOPE AND LEAST | 
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We had intended to add t 
o these r 
account of the im n Engh 
TH 
fe where will be 
ound a riety of hi hi 
A N interesti articul 
accura acy o of w hes a p sina 5 pae 
Tae important charge 
the — —— 
country is — ~~ to European settlers, and 
c of 
GARDEN 7555 been confided by the East dia tye 
CHRONICLE. | 
Company to Mr. Mc Ivor, of the Roy 
Ga 
the public by his very useful 
Li s an alemosses. It i 
ad va 
which 
: ments of Mr. Cu 
young 
The aptitude ma ip e of the natives for | j 
s 
heifers 3 them, all of which 
r the ose of | y 
v might be expected from this improved me pens of the 
d is the country | P 
the 5 MUND | 
aa 
rden, Kew, who is already favourably koma 
work o 
as none but a Gardener can 
fications in that capacity are Mickten by thea sien 
tures of Mr. Nas of Edinburgh, M 
Westwoop of Dollar, and Mr. SMirh of Kew: z 
nd scientific attainments are sufficiently evinced f 
public reputation 
We trust that this and the still recent a i 
RLES Mooke to o Sydne , 
are determined 
and by nothing else, except good character. 
We would direct the attention of our reader 
t n of rain for 1847, | 
i 
found yh in another column \ 
ON see CULTIVATION OF THE ONION, 
TRE Onion crop is admitted to be one of the pi 
cipal crops “of the kitchen Ly atone but as fre 
p s destructi 
- from other causes, per ps a few pret s 
to my mode of preparing the ground for, and cali 10 
its erop, may prove useful. In the rotation o 
ve the ver 
gimning o ea E 
| ground sufficiently, dry, I level the Celery. ridges 
en take out what is called “ opening ” alon 
first ridge. The. first spit is chiefly o í 
of common soil, which I wheel to the opps 
The manure should be clea 
like manner until the whole qua 
agri alrea 
it equally over the surface of the ground so preje 
re | Proceed in the 
finish 
hen the manure is spread on the surface, give 
slight dig in, and then commence to make drills 
7 to = N apart, oe an the eee 
an, especially in wet season 
1008 good pl > 7 
divided are beds so fal dey may be hse fr 
under the n, contribute la all ndl : 
to that improvement. rgely | alleys without treading on the beds. The ground! 
will afford the ns 181 ion the rows should be properly d and sti 15 
— . means of providing more efficient pro- dry weather, . er rain, as ground 80 
coun He Maye on the future peace of the [W b more moisture during — night, and rà 
meee . European and | less during the d day. I never wate „even i d 
ae ar to appreciate fully the advantages of their | driest se has l 1 by wail 
presen er not only evince the most gratifying that land which contains the greatest quantity of 
most a 
produces N 
| trenahed * deep wbai i we: ag from 
may be expected 
above mode of cultivation I cove gon ined cod 8 * 
Onions on various soils and re in Scot 
England, and Wales.—James Hutchis 
VILIA GARDENING. 
tinued from 4 
Tun whole ene of the villa must be unpre‘? 
too much must not be at ; its chief p 
must be that of thi ll is su Ue 
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eeping. propr is suppose 
briatet a aari to public 3 in his small p 
jects perhaps the ex 
views must be self-contained, the more 
It has been well o 
