The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT, NEW ZEALAND,

We have been favoured with a sketch of the plan which
is proposed to be adopted in carrying out the objects of
this settlement, to which we have previously referred.
The committee includes the names of the Bishop of Ox-
ford, Lords Littleton and Courtenay, Sir William F. rqu-
har, C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., Honourable R. Caven-
dish and F. Charteris, M.P., Rev. G. R. Gleig, J. R.
Godley, Esq., Rev. Ernest Hawkins, E. Halswell, Esq.,
T. S. Cocks, Esq.' M.P., J. Simeon, Esq., M.P., and John
Hutt, Esq. The Archbishop of Canterbury is president,
and the association embraces the names of many of the
bishops, many noble lords and eminent clergymen. The
prospectus states :
We intend to form a settlement, to be composed entirely
of members of our own church, accompanied by an ade-
quate supply of clergy, wit'a all the appliances requisite
for carrying out her discipline and ordinances, and with
full provision for extending them in proportion to the in-
crease of population. As, by preserving unity of religious
creed, the difficulties which surround the question of edu-
cation are avoided, we shall be enabled to provide amply
and satisfactorily for that object. The Committee of
Management will have the power of refusing to allow any
person of whom they may disapprove to become an ori-
ginal purchaser of land, and, as that power will be carefully
exercised, it is hoped that ineligible colonists may be al-
most entirely excluded, and that the new community may
have at least a fair start in a healthy moral atmosphere.
The purchasers of land will have the selection of labour-
ers to be recommended for a free passage ; such labourers
to be also, exclusively, bond fide members of the Englfsh
Church. As a site for our projected colony, we have
fixed upon New Zealand, which offers greater advantages
of soil and climate, combined with the greater amount of
available and unoccupied land, than any other British
possession ; arrangements are accordingly in progress with
the New Zealand Company (which stands in the place of
the crown, as regards the disposal of waste lands in that
country) for the acquisition of a territory of 1,000,000
acres (about the extent of the county of Norfolk) in a fa-
vourable situation, apart from older settlements, and from
the vicinity of the natives, to be devoted exclusively to
the purposes of our settlement. By means of the muni-
cipal institutions lately granted to New Zealand, the col-
onists will have the power of managing their own local
affairs without interference. In order to provide funds
for carrying out the objects of the association, every pur-
chaser of land will be required to contribute a sum pro-
portioned to the extent of his purchase, and all such con-
tributions will be expended, through the instrumentality
of the Committee of Management, according to the wishes
and directions of the colonists, from among whom those
who are fit and able to take part in the proceedings of the
committee will be from time to time added to their num-
' ber. The principal sources of expense will consist in re-
ligious and educational endowments, in the importation of
labour, in surveys, and in those public works (such as
roads bridges, and buildings) which may be absolutely
1 necessary to the establishment and maintenance of the

May 30,1845.

• settlement. These are things which every colonist mugt
,
wish to see well done; but they are such as the isolate('
efforts of individuals cannot do, and therefore it is necel'
sary to make a contribution to them a preliminary retinr,;
site to the purchase of land in the settlement which iou
benefit by their existence. Ten shillings per acre will be
charged for the rural land ; and every purchaser of land
will contribute to the purposes above mentioned in the
following proportion :—£l per acre to the Religious an
Educational Fund; £1 per acre to the Immigration
Fund ; 10s. per acre to the Fund for Miscellaneous Pur-
poses, such as surveys, roads, bridges, &c. When the
whole territory reserved for the purpose of this settletneri t
shall be disposed of, the sum of the contributions to the
objects enumerated will be as follows :
Religious and Educational Fund £1,000,000
Immigration Fund 1,000,000
Fund for Miscellaneous purposes . 500,000
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts has cordially adopted the views of the Associatin
and undertaken to become trustee of the Religious alit`
Educational Fund.

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