The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

OPE N E cINt FITE mild 11( I New Govern nanuta Ile prod , "Cef r luau irt, DI. r an. ALI lA. P. M. P. 3,. H. I on.e, of London D. of Melbourne (D.D. & Co) M. MA hat we wealth tountr, KITH AI his an , TD.I ,hering lbjoin ramplin Campbell Warburton Schomberg, •lace Wa v. Willis I Grund Turner Fraser en tnen laid —and, I bet rpool— 3 obsery ow that we ar North, moral, " voile to the , f the Soutb s ntterar I if jou noiacton of C 1 ender F. Ha. R. W. rst of the Nev access of which 1 C. B. ADDSBLEII iathboi 1. Smith M‘Leoa J, S. Mansfield icterness Littleda Forshaw .rdinian Consul Turner R. Wardley am lamilton spinall s Barton 1 Cons ler M'Gre 'or wood Preston ,on ; and, after th 1 1 ) said : Gentlem e merchants c Aeration. )ut I rejoic -our loyal DW no a than to x to her hi y of t ptre in th and cheers. nen, although w e, we must not forg a the hour of trial. I against its( a to say ty to the Queen, with all , and . amid endship which rmies, who, after s over their old be Crimea, have a, as the van nabled to say ry of Austria we it were put in w saying in apt to divide Gentle 2cl me, will do I nron, ly hope embus, propose ver were e Crime ho fougl zht and we mu an a yea reania I beg umstan lean) )Lain Scho i, on the p reat honor dually, in c 'ay without arr wining t led upon, t ni kind he Chairman ai .th of our wort for his pr ) to be, a 1 (Hear, hear hid been t' al, kind, and I dock t in:wh . were by 1 of dis ich tha n, I again f a Frenchman' f i in the Lout with f of t part to le, as sli Ls son may be like toast of " Prince light sorrow to all hop, hear.) I believe ated than those of proud s we are ncourt and I of history ,Ily took it austerity will d from owever 000 men, use men met .el., bail 44100 y would le rief. Or had 1 so fat mpanion ,ed our r ,t to have board of i ack, withi upon th of 450 we d conf ing to you t o to nt you have pat will never, under to be undeserving, hank you for the Le army. (Applause.) espouded for the navy. He said : of the navy, I beg to thank you you have done it, and to myself my name with the toast. I hope I ice, that the navy has been influeu .e, and I feel confident,_ that when- ready." (Cheers.) is a pleasing duty. It is that of pro s with our foreign relations, and pro )oth of which duties I feel sure will be beers.) gain rose, and said : In proposing the hv chief magistrate, I beg to thank re to-day, in dignifying what we P the New Zealand trade in this confess that, at one time, we were 3urexpectations of such honours ival of every a clipper i for, if Aim with the notoriously con ic character of the - - suipowners, e been just a procession from he would have to swim for his . . e establis a fair r)—and, I hall not be such a corn r.) In his rprise, which c hands. (E 1 )w townsman (dear, hear, it the 3 in responding to the lemen, I only wish I or the kind ay, and thank you, ,eil; and you, gentlemen, i you ha responded , n, I am filling the .e of this town, and duties, that and that wilt bi ; and I do hope that al )st to assist the merchar and anxious to assist faction• to what I . dock ( on, who, ba orporatu n of tha I estate, whi z leas, t cordi (App: xt toast, lon. It ) do b LI who its, as town. s pre know p,nplan Twelve I thougt ) much )3 over thei Ler twelve axed to enjo. this dap for tt adoption, canna uent Man( Wh chief men and magis me,and I now be7dng, may mention, I laid on for tiv thing I was tol Zealan be developed, reat Bri that tt Liverpool 1 7 far d ved ther wanderers a The cou :empt of th ,to be and, not It state n I went )st fabulous were I fully iire the language of_Mac Well might Sir George Grey, when he left, our s' has bl say tt D its I I wou' depict th world are li (Hear, hear ~ COM our late governox 3res, th 1,. meet a Wan- 'ou for ;lemon, leers.) m glad 1 wiess and property sq secure am Lnd cheers.) It has bet t in no par s in New 2 that would happiness, ton, to I Wellingi times with a pal_ So far, gentlemen, as regards the - morality of the place. The natives are brought now, I rejoice to say, into the highest state of civilisation. These people can, as Mr. Mackay has already stated, almost to a man, read and write, and put to shame many of their white brethren. They are large owners of the soil which they have re bought—actually themselves re.bought. They are large proprietors of stock. The finest breed of horses in the colony belongs to the natives; and I may mention an instance in which the successful owner—a Liverpool mer chant, Mr. Hickson, I mention his name, as he pro bably will be known to some of you here—of a very cele brated horse which, at the races, carried everything before bim, was tendered by the natives, to my own knowledge, a bag of stki sovereigns, to improve their This,stock. imrn g nentiv6,m gentlemen, shows of the colony.showstheinte (Hear,restwhic hthey tihear.) (Loud cheers.) ,rit v is labour; and I am glad to see that ,id. I can assure you, gentlemen, except oz course in so far as we all want—Yet I assure you that we have got inexhaustible stores of wealth in our soil. We want labour to extract the wealth from our land. Our princi pal export at present is wool, and upon this subject I shall justi read you an extract from a letter of a very high authority indeed—one of the leading statesmen of New Zealand, his Honour the Superintendent of Wellington. Ile writes to me thus :—" There is no doubt that the province is advancing rapidly; and it is difficult to imagine any possible check to its a prosperity, so that there is now a far better opening for _- commercial intercourse with England than has previously existed. The population will probably be doubled every ,` three years, and our exports will certainly ;- -"t three years, be equal to our imports. Ina other exports, you may calculate that t wool; of than 1,000,000 lbs province Zealand yet as ne IY, whici _ in two or Independent of next clip be less southern of want ' B rovince alone, will not and including the other on may estimat .6 3 000,000 lbs." happy to say, would load at least -s, and I am delighted to think that get wool. 'sqnal to This, genileinen, I a four or live Oliver L; stead of sendir ho - me bank draf s, you will The prices we have already obtained are altog... those of Port Philip. I shall also read you another e from a very inte 4ustralian and New Zea slight bu May significant ill ion of this, no ast, an Indian officer, who had determ .• r than led on nd Gazett, that he had ination, and was removing forthwith to New He states that within the last two months 2,000 left Victoria for New Zealand, and that many I Govern- The New Ireparic ment, now in the han the wbnl of a responsible executive, and acting in the enlightened spirit a popular consti ation, invites such immigrants by every fair inducement ; it may be said that every day now sees the arrival in ports, not only of the labourer or his family from England, but of the successful -m Sydney or Victoria, availing_ himself er of of may b ly his is probably lavish hand than ti _ _ bestowed Cow Zeal ,tlement e islands at a future day the Britain of the Some In the earlier period of its commotion with t victim of hAv.. Nnifti blunders and crimes, and its prospects were ited by the effects of an unprincipled mono ht to grasp in its own hand. the exclusive lnce of the A glo-Saxon race, deriv- mg but lit, ;Assistance and encouragement from the Government 3t home, have, however, overcome the difficulties which the supineness of a government, and the come plication of the land questions, had thrown in their path of progress." The intelligent writer from whom I thus quotes describing the striking political and social change which has latterly taken p lace, and which happily no human power e, proceeds to say—" If the present owners and .piers of land in the colony could but obtain an adequate of labour, New Zealand would in a very short time o ccupy the proud position of being the most prosperous and wealthy of the British possessions. This is now being done ! And now that, both from Europe and Australia, this great demand for labour is in course of being • though gradually, yet effectually met, the future prospects of the colony may well inspire the highest hope and confidence." Gentlemen, there is another thing which parties leaving this country, for the shores of New Zealand, will find before them. They will find, what is an advantage and a lift to a country which cannot be overrated, a constitutional freedom. (Hear, hear.) We have now got, thanks to Mr. Adderley, and to the other devoted men who laboured for the advantage of New Zealand, one of the freest constitu tions ever granted to any nation. (Cheers.) It is almost equal to universal sufferage. I, who have watched the rise of the colony, and taken a very active part in its affairs, can , • , can revers ,tth great certainty, that au prosperity winch nas followed upon that freedom, has surpassed the mast —ine expectations. Furthermore, I can say that the 'd, but has been exercised with been abus atien, care, and judgment. (Hear, hear.) Those ho go out will not be more• than six months in the e time when they arrive, before they will nave a voice in the administration of its affairs. The officers of the colony must be elected according to the consti •,tion. and these men will have a share in the exercise of that -ve a ministerial government, and I confidently -try more and more prospering under its colony, from t power. We I hope to see tl Hear, hear. ) gentlemen, although we are the Antipodes, do not think we ever forget that we are British subjects. _(Cheers.) In Fdrthermo cea and _of no part of t orld where the Bri h flag flies, is there a people more devoted to their Queen and to their country. (Cheers.) We honour our Queen, and on every occasion banquet—not, indeed, a banquet to be for such a display could hardly be expected when v mpared to th so young a country—it sc Id delight and overjoy you w Zealand Englishmen see the feeling which animates Ne ien her Majesty's health is prop men, I really m st again much deplore t er for till return 7 in an adequate man cone me in the compliment I have ur to myself, but I also E , and I car it an 1 eciated It will be t the intell 1 have come fon ,ure you that it will be income news to the shores of nt and e-' ,uterprisi I in this spleiidid 841 m on in their exertio lermanent it tour approbati you to drink i rity. (C health of (Loud and entho tling in n and Net zht live at eas ter mor gentlemen i,iiier - hatids n ala ntlern done with to toast, whit Hit was, " v -- of ,and sa e than 17 yeatl time with o abundance 4 . with feel tion that I 'ew Zealan (Loud — cheers.) had on our shore ho commas :peat, after Et WO a V •-• vessel will be seen again gliding u 4,060 bales of our New Zealand wad. ihdu proposed the toast, and roma cannot peas consi Tt kind m 'ionour you I esteem n honour rhlv Hear, hear, , se and days, when I am going do mean to consist, g their t t T I h'olit aid to N Co. hay e New Zealand 61 of a g wad drank with all James Baines, on ris rmly received. He sa anner in which I have ftqr the toast had been drunk, offered is done. for the establishment rs.) I should like, to propose a toast. — it is one which will suggested, adiantag g great pleasure. ri shall take the liberty of Baines and .) It would be 'of that firm. It mine would be merit. 01 I have seen the London docks, I led vessels of a well I never saw anything ther le parties iyage of six month of the chairman, I s7ill sei ir.) James Baines and Co. hay the great town of Liverpool, (Hear, hear.) In speali t that New Zealand is al e of Liverpool, of . Lordon, or o ed Kingdom, if it were not e'vntlemen, I have been ' it is only a ?ni hill nd be a pioneer of th ne to other worlds. of this we y any posi NeMU* tys receive your support. it is, th that I support the toast now ation. (Cheers.) equal to this this nob' Mr, Smith It amid loud 1 this motion one well, no but also for the ag of t tegral be the tra, ,nv oth regret tc ,o my gr Do vv t 9 aye, that then to In I to O it will F.,,,1,14.1 41. ereto re, proposed Ith great for your ll thei honours; and log tb regporid to t id : Gentlemtn; for received the healt with the be toast, h 6f my firm, I beg to return you my sincere thanks. It is now scarcely four years since we started the "Black Ball" line, then with very moderate expectations. The subse quent extension of the gold fields enlarged our operations, and perhaps I may say, without egotism, that we have been, .to some extent, instrumental in attracting a portion of the colony's wool trade to the port of Liverpool. (ffear, hear.) What we have been enabled to do for Melbourne, we hope to be able to do, to some extent, to New Zealand, and our endeavours will be in conducting the emigration and the trade which may be entrusted to us, to carry it out honestly, and in a liberal Spirit—(hear, hear, and cheers)—and I trust that some few years hence we shall be enabled to give as good an account of our stewardship in the New Zealand trade as I fancy we can at the present moment of the Australian trade. (Cheers ) _ _fitting down, I beg to propose a toast which I am sure all the shipowners of Liverpool will very gladly drink—it is the health'of the emigration officers of the port of Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) In doing an extensive trade in emigration it is most important to find officials who are willing, instead of making difficulties, to remove them. (Hear, hear.) Such has always been our experience of the emigration officers of Liverpool ; where they can facilitate our opera tions with propriety, they have always done so. . (Heart hear.) I beg to propose "The healths of Captain Schom berg, and the Emigration Officers of the port of Liver pool : " (Cheers.) _ _ _ _ Captain Schomberg said: I beg to thank you, gentle men, for the kind manner in which you have received my health, and Mr. Baines given it. I need not say that since I have been in Liverpool, I have watched with the deepest anxiety the fittings and general equipment of passenger ships, and owing to the enterprise and energy of shipowners, I can say that the improvements have been very great in every respect. First of all, we see in this line that they have not only taken the ordinary ships, but that they have built a fleet, and that they hay equipped a fleet for their trade. Whatever sr (hear, •i—and I may gestion is , hears— .ay that with every shipowner I have found the same thing. Whatever .aaaanahla anri whatavar has haan rioht from eery nd not toleasing me, but it has done this other has been always met time to time that I hav in that kind and gentlemanly manner, which mal arduous duty a —(hear, hear)-- a, that file passengers who embarked some years aiewith - Misgivings, that he would meet great unhappiness and great discomfort on the voyage, n'ed not now fear, for it has been made as little disagreeable as it is possible for a long voyage to be. I must now say, from the bottom of my heart, that I wish this new enterprise of James Baines and Company every success it can possibly have, and I think, from the spirit of liberality they have shown, that that will be the feeling of every one present. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) _ The Chairman again rose and said : Gentlemen, it would ill-become ue. whit° we are rejoicing in the pros neritv of New Zealand, to forget that of the sister colony contri 'ealth of New Zealand at the proseat moment. ► say that we have, in this assembly, one of st esteemed mer f Mel- bourne. and from the reports,that we receive from time to time of its enormous auriferous deposits, one is almost used to consider that there may be some truth in the ory that " gold is not riches." I know of no person who " slow coach, on the Mere is more calculated to undeceive the the old !country, than Ar. Train—(laughter)—and I beE The port and trade to couple his name with the toast of Melbourne. (Hear, hew he toast was drunk with all the honours from and shalt Mr. G. Train responded. He said : Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it is a proud thing for an American to be thus honoured. I can hardly speak. You pay me a high compliment in asking me to respond to such a sentiment, but you have over-rated my ability to do it justice. To remain silent, however, would be to be forgetful of the many pleasant days I have passed under an Australian sun, but when I see so many eloquent men about me—so many Englishmen, (merchants connected with the colonies,)—my feelings tell me that you should have devolved upon others the duty of respond ing to the toast of the port and trade of Melbourne. My fitter place would be to get behind the awning, and make room for others who could speak the English lan guage in a manner pleasing to you all, combining instruc tion with information. (Cries of " No, no.") But fortunately for me, the port and trade of Melbourne require no champion—no defender. If New Zealand, according to Sir Robert Peel, is to be the Great Britain of the Eastern Ocean, what will Melbourne be, I ask ? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is scarcely twenty years since a British Minister was complimented upon giving to a great Australian port a name ; and that name will be as lasting as the knowledge of England's greatness. (Cheers.) It is but a short time ago—l think it was about the time that the great financial whirlwind was passing through the world, in 1838—when a little body of settlers touched at. Port Philip, and planted the seed of a future empire. Years passed on, and quietly returned each succeeding spring. You heard nothing through the lands but the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep. Time passed on—years rolled by—quiet was reigning in the land —the Australian Boer was talking to the Australian shep herd, and the boomerang was whistling over the squatter's hut—when suddenly there came an eureka, shout from Bal larat. It passed through the land. It passed through the colonies like a prairie fire. It was heard at Mel bourne, Port Philip, and Adelaide. It passed along, round the Cape, by St. Helena, and on through England, - d the whole world, like an electric flash. America, am. (Applause.) I, among the first, was in the field. I left Boston at the commencement of 1853, and arrived at the port of Melbourne, and saw there some 600 square-rigged vessels not discharged. Such a sight no man ever saw before ; I could hardly believe my eyes. I went out with my clerks, each man with a revolver. (Laughter.) I went out armed as I thought. I was going to a convict country, and that you could not take up the Melbourne Argus without reading of people being shot down in the streets. What was my astonishment to see the port completely packed with shipping ; but I found little facility there for working them. I found no warehouses —no docks, like your's, Mr. Mayor. I saw nothing com mensurate with its greatness. We soon took hold— Enelish. Scotch, Irish, and American, altogether—and now behold the change I .€34,000,000 sterling of property you sent us in two years for a population of less than► 250,000. (Laughter.) And do you wonder at the result? remember when I left Boston, one of what we call the --headed merchants—men who send out in long -9, to India and China, and wait during -nonths before remittances can come to in the street. " Well, you are going to Australia ? " "Yes." " You will see a sight that will astonish your eyes ; you will see men in the streets borne down with bags of gold—gold in their Atets, gold on their backs, gold around their necks— let m starving to death 1" I asked him what about their 12,000,000 head of sheep ; and he replied, " why man, they cannot live on mutton all their lives." (Laughter.) At that time there were 40 ships in New York, and 20 at Boston, and who can wonder at the result. A friend of it me a case of buttons on account of a Hudders and how I oven tried in vain to sell it, (La reply I ever ; ter.) I rued net profits of .E. 3 4s. 10d them those net profits, and the only a bill of lading for a package of through the Red Sea--through Lower Egypt and COI but I found no better place than Melbourne, a nd I t D ho vi ug e h re t . t l hr w ou o g u h ld T g ri o po d li own by Joppa and Jerusalein• a, went all through that country to the Dead Sea, al d U ri; struggle—the g n e ib a at f le I then thought I would see the great arena of it to Cyprus, Latakaia, Beyrn: l_a a u e g l h d ter.) I came haws. agtter stantinople, bu t I fo un d no better place than Melba, , s , t iancer,obs across t t 0I Marseilles,foun dn o p l o a n c e t o b_e crno; ,. nd down w oul Crimea. There was an astonishing sight l I felt Ip° on, have seen n othing, accomplished nothing, had I not grit, there at the end of Allr, e ; Every Englishman I ' a i o , rpeace howled it down ea ~ Oght" ted time to get into __ it • • -roused—that now 1 But peace came. -----..1, and I roan3e"w the have soken of I 5 %0) 'urks—ran away. (L ail° der' in Nolan brought the 0 , 1 1. 0 0, new—(laughter) —to l'"wbst barge. ~ my God , d the se re is the enemy , an thst to hear, as I stood on lo t "Well, here goe s the t. —and down they Weli tho se to Inkermann, where __,,,,. - your igy4: I eat OWY the receav through Syria and I 3 way, when I talked said that England wa -to have her pluck and that fight the to Kamiesch and iia ttle-fields that you where the 'I redoubt ri the spot here Can• im I asked I char r order: —I crossed " The: I seemed solilo qti (laught ) I hurried c at Trieste, and from the tin and m( ten I g required a r ❑tic, and h Englishm, o brought of peop' ugh rival mother us think upon tt ers.) I litorials side— 'telbouroo betivee l l:: dllll Au stri d until ; e r e - ot inter - Rntecl am. ,Ty P!.8: h soil, rtile to Englal 1 . felt the .oit e ur. I"' 00° And drink the cup of fellowship Here's a health to hallowed Al And her daughter, fair Colamb have just u the well whale we are brothers still 0 1 1 " . i0 blood that circles in our Ta yet a dro bion, the jewel of the se. , ia, the happy and the fr.eeg.tisitiff es sing, in joyful plaintre e ) while yet a drop renitein s '„ W e' I am wandering from the toast, but the Angl o-Sad. still lives in the 60,000,000 of Americans an d Engles 4. throughout these countries, and though they 1,51 e vet spoken of as missionaries to the aboriginal races,l,lo e 1' call tell yon that missionary enterpr ise does not uudosvOl as well as Ilritish cannon. In 1842, w hen y ou brok o f the banners of the Chinese empire , y ou did one fols best things in the ythole world for these nationt 10 e d broke down the banner g , and then—Jonathan volisit and took some of the trade. (Laughter.) cone„ fog' I will give you a toast which will bring y ou all ":;101/1 feet. I am proud that I am the guest of Yr. 50,,: v ies , (Hear, bear.)__ I have listened to his rema rks vlP'' ❑g may their sons their prail d drain the cup of fellowshi sure, and in all do I agree, " Great in the counting-house — peerless in debate Who follows I% , hzekay, takes the field too late :" (Great laughter.) I propose to you the healt2; 000 Mackay, and call on you to receive it with a el lv. will make the welkin ring. (applause.) The toast was drunk with three times three The Chairman, in responding to the toast , was Weil; in the most enthusiastic manner. He said : Gen sere how am Ito return thanks for this ovation ? I 2,llLardr. we have all been delighted with what we have Psi' and I do not know that I ever , heard a more enter t L a n v ieel l a mor- practical, a more useful and instructive''rojor t delivered by Mr. Train, and I hope th ! s ee§ been natural. There are many circinnsefeo rising in a large community like this, which P,: t fori ll , -fleeting, as it may be said on one common n ,P h l s is .:cept on occasions like the present. tie to inaugurate a new source of wealth A.'i do town, and in that we all have a great stake, gl ee ; hope that we may have frequent occasions together in future, on similar occasions. Before i flv, down, permit me to propose the health of a gentierool,6lllo9 is a guest here to day, a gentleman who has don e' e. ,ipt e ; for the benefit of old England. I remember an a,i which I dare say you have all read, that was told 0 11 ( late King William the IV., when he was a reidshilo n o 0 : .10 of battle•ship. It was on the oeentbo' ,ptain giving up his sword. He was teLtao; on was on board that ship as a midshird $' t of course looked with astonishment, !Ince There is no wonder at your being in/ POI?! King's sons take the part of a corece° ll . t .„,.sl',' )ur ships.' For my own part, I am, hu", r Acl r , but am very partial to the arst°6rete believe they are the upholders of 01° 11 11 r ie „o It for the aristocracy, I fear we 0, 0 ,0 0- an express train, an d tor e P pace would snit our legislh of# e ermit me to propose the heall:o4 tocraey—it was the health of 0;100 beers,) who is a guest at our 0,005 Homan won ,,f a g ag o ,nei l: b n mle h aby o eh n ga o ts u ob rs e i ; t o i 0 ~f ' God se° than ti ment has Our like this, on board a 1 a French ca captain ,aid—" Your / my politial It' it was 3k that every blessi ion. gE nee he c land of 1 le Hon doptia have thong at Melbou and almost —,l nas favo ur ed V' On 4.47 ..iter a speech , SO' (L aw - 4 sr, and laughter.) Ido not knoist - - ,t 0, lo V "-`^nine to him has quite A ct t 4 1 us roe c oin aimost than 0001 e peen, I believe, begifotid Aght every part of the knovill j ►known world, all' cori le .so scattered jacoiletciy ill difficulty I co l r to 0 .!culiar bonoliej filo way associst 1300 TO. ~o , P oro s Siis,, t t C u h s a , iiromr anineulociatig-leeilor::#6 Stuart WortlE ,ht of it carries ay ideas have hi t it is with no tighter.) But I feel it a erpool, and to be in any king, such as that which M and Co. this day are inaugurating. I feel it to be : - 0 14: d t -nes Baines and Co. are doing Wh a ',-4 a great to them and the coles,"'A proud' t h a t 1 00 t esti ng where we were-- 00v, now worth the while of Baines and Co., to do 0 0 years ago they would not have thought of. It sh we have not lost the opportunities we had, bat r po r o have done our best to bring our country uP de cle s gl e A for her favourable advancement, and t ° , a ing for us. (Hear, hear.) And, the efforts which our English friends e` e O, gri t way by which a country of that description et ri 4 de, O g most fit for enterprises of commercial magn"; s otei s fer numbering among her people such energetic ell e 'i l ag rit Mr. Train. (Hear, hear.) After the sketch be; 0 1) ,," # 6 of himself, of the way in which ho started fro b 0 wo" when the difficulties of Melbourne appeared to " 11 0 1 1 0 g entle fo re 14 1 ,1 mountable, that must appear sufficiently evident . ,.l9 the position which he has attained in that coler):-10,4- O name is known beyond the limits of Melbourne eter even in New Zealand. It is by means of Chen pi ti ti o t j that;description, with such a native energy, trA may say, with a dash of the Yankee in them• country will prosper—and when I say a " 3 „'„ Yankee, 1 mean that which a colonist necess ar " i fo r n i j —a habit of helping himself, doing everythiq for pit self, and not trusting to other people to do l t d r ec;v: (Hear.) When I went out to the colony, I to es re; ri a much the same sort of education which most boi 14 0 0 0 and, I fear, neglected it even more than WO" ` 1 1:1 (Laughter.) But, when I got into the colonif,,eofo v that life out there was really, as Longfellow oft 0,0 There is no time for looking about one. Whav;od '1, 0 40 got to do he must do directly, and with heart a u nt I soon found that if T wanted a house, I ra j 0 111 4°' carpenter myself—if I wanted my shoes soled', 054 it for myself—and if my horse wanted shoeing' ." t ll o ,t to and do it. (Laughter.) I have done all tie 'OO4 gentlemen, whether I have done them well ';00°(0,1 thing. Laughter.) All I can say is, that my o .„ o o 6 ;fte` c f very long time until it got a little out, of the Pe' Top 0 0, 4 —(laughter.)—that my shoes stood me very f ei l a in ° ,4ol had soled them; and that my horse did not go: s pe-4 shoeing. (Cheers.) I give you this as simply f j. d . 4 1 0 of what we had to do at the starting. 1 be t a there so early as my friend Mr. Smith—he h,/. - 1 1it", 4 "(1 , 4 1 heat and burden of the day ; nor, certainly' ", h / /4 out there then, could I have done very 0 1 °`:"tle o ttlel emigrated about five years ag0.15 That wa' n os cP4f , starting of what I hope will be a very pros P e r" It°o Y e l of New Zealand—the Canterbury settlemen t. w hi Ag v ir) . dependence was upon the same export ins f Vol P Smith alluded—wool. When I saw the ' 1 0 bury at the end of the year 1850, there were `', 4 o o a f settlers there, who had been country, w,-* out, Ltrust, to I 'eel my rself, as a N that w are not Zealand eoloni xmelon—l e I enterer glace than ri-`, 3Me t weIVE .en consisted of some 0 9 ,,Y 'rasa land. When I left it in the year 1855,," "er a t a i l ig like 200,000 sheep, about 5,00 u 4131°-cle - ne of agriculture was from 11 , - f astAidot We had to struzgle at first to a tn of ~ fls 410 inducements of the gold diggings c orido e , we found it most difficult to find the nece,; We had not then time to grow corn, and tak e 10f, of the prices, while we had to pay g o ld price' a s rip' But, notwithstanding that, which certainly red 4 disadvantage at the first, no one, I think, etterieit ing that the gold diggings have been a_cilli,Fo:l:ehily°. pillions o iPmethir and the incr great deal. and no v more than.de . improvement OE nv ,- ;o this, that it attractea r,k 1 o the Australian colonies, in Whi e , 4 ."lo° A l _,e ° t Alia cannot go ahead "ot "er Zealand, and no settleroed 56c01y like Canterbury' a v ii vi e tit 'e - effect upon tbee're, , D o tO t , ° )/ Jonsider, thero°o 10,011 t, re the means of bringla —5 '5 15. 0f 0110111 Zealand could b, ar, hear.) I One new source 491 1 Gentlemen,—l:r board t , pt you I do not me ,t all th on a Qu ;ra. A ir3 of kings to govern sr, and cheers.) Ge "'cult part wh (clear, hi ) play t may but his po, King down the barriers of a the industry of France; in f enterprise, the big loaf wi] aim of the bandoned aperor 1 apoleon e right direction mumeree he is emend , once they taste the hale more attractions yours to tivate tti r0r,17. years our of ..... ___ has laboured, and c, il, but to a s with ; m may and the ear flax comes into I )is company to-day :outinues to labour the cotton it it. In locki over the Oliver I Mr. M .11VOUS has obsery 1 i was as anxious to dent of Zealand Their names, before I lett _ lly - entrusted to me. The Superintet.— L-1.3 ma that the men for my business Were d Co. (Cheers) I need not allude to the enterprise Kertions which they have displayed to promote _ cenri T ran - Play, as no doubt it will some day, verpool will be trivial compared to ig ? observing her iplendid accommodation, and everything which could make comfort, I could not but perceive that she far surpasses anything we 'ter.) But the trade and port of Mel all you that they speak for themselves, to be said in their behalf. We have got rot gas...we have got water—we louses—we have have got a railwayTenlfaslijort one as yet, to be sure—two miles, and no one has done more than you, gentlemen of Liverpool, for that port. I assure you that lam proud of that country. We are, all Australians, proud of it. I want no better place. I once thought I would go on to see if there were a better place, and I went on to Java, Singapore, and along the coast for 1,000 miles. I came down again, and I found an English merchant everywhere. At every place I found a British man-of-war, a British consul, and a British merchant. I went up to Bengal, Calcutta—l came down again, but I foundi:no :place like Melbourne. , I then got at Aden— very 11 copper, which scans en ft7`,.iareti A company has it, to, fr A England, in connection with one in the ce l° 'f' ' o ei' o on. I understand that twelve tons have been ;:en : itleed, proved to be a very fine sample. have See 1 1 , 1 " l' o ro that gold has been discovered, but I place ''', v iee,'"„tciPhi in that. There was gold brought in e ver) ? P" was there, for about two years, and. I its b(i°011,1 but when we came to enquire about '', : ',lo"f turned out to be mica, or else some ge ntler 001 3 4 60 it with him from Melbourne. (Laughter./...i0t ; 3251 base my hopes for the colony's advan ce . P ncl tri t ' s ' O / V e lid im g p ro o u rt n a d ti o o f n e o m f ig l r a a b t o i u on r an to d th t e he co e u u n ip t r) : o ;i: a t en y t, t iat on of labour and the necessary irol o°.- nt ° d or solid give.ll trust to see the plains and-o°u° THE NOR ERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, ZIDAY.