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PRE-EMPTION. 
with any modification which might be deemed proper, such as 
restricting the purchaser to a certain quantity, and requiring 
him, under certain penalties, to reside, and restraining him 
from selling before a fixed term of years, every object would 
be gained which the Government could want. Settlers would 
be secured—a certain revenue would be derived. It would 
resemble the very steps the Government is adopting with the 
gold diggers, the waving the Crown’s right for a certain fixed 
compensation. I am persuaded, that had Governor Fitzroy’s 
Act been continued, New Zealand would have had treble the 
European population it now has, and that population would 
have been at this moment cultivating those lands which are 
now laying unoccupied and waste. 
IIE PAPA, OR CARVED BOX. 
