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HINTS TO INTENDED EMIGRANTS. 
And lastly, with regard to the part which offers the most 
advantages : the province of Auckland holds out many ; it 
has a fine climate, a good port, good society. The town is the 
largest in the colony, the province is also free from earth¬ 
quakes, which are felt in every other part of the islands ; all 
the fruits which can be raised in Sydney—the orange, lemon, 
banana guava—can be raised north of the Bay of Islands. 
Taranaki, or New Plymouth, holds out, perhaps, fewer in¬ 
ducements, as there is so little land for sale in that province; 
but its scenery is very beautiful. Wanganui presents more, 
from its having a greater extent of land for selection ; Ahuriri, 
on the eastern coast, is a fine field; much land still remains 
there for selection; Canterbury, if you intend feeding sheep, 
will do, provided you have capital. Otako is highly spoken 
of; in fact, every part of New Zealand offers great induce¬ 
ments ; but those which have most land are best suited to the 
settler. To the artizan, all hold out the prospect of high 
wages, and certain employment. The steady must get on. 
It is amusing to see how surely settlers have advanced from 
small means to a competency—agricultural laborers, to be 
substantial farmers; sailors and artizans to be merchants, and 
men of substance; and the same means which were available 
for them, will be so for others. The ladder by which they 
mounted, still remains for others to use, and that is industry, 
temperance, and perseverance. 
The settler finds every day something to cheer him on ; he 
sees his farm progress, and his prospects advance; everything 
he does improves his place, and as he gradually changes the 
wilderness into a comfortable home, he has the certain prospect 
of leaving a competency for his family, however large it may 
be, with the knowledge that as the colony rises, it will rise 
with it, and, before long, possess all the comforts of the parent 
country, with an exemption from many of its attendant evils. 
