The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-20

in the vicinity Of Of town, navgable river or seaport
and also by the high rates Of inland carriage and white
labor Indeed, such the rate Of inland carriage Aus
traa possessing few navgabe rivers railways that IL
would not at all pay 70 cart produce such wheat pota
kind to be obtained In Australia and IL 80 high that
from two dollars 70 two and half dollars per day
are paid 70 aborers on the public roads Of the country
Many parts or australia, especially the northern portion
Of New South Wales is well suited for coored labor but
the colonies having constitutions and universal SUFFRAGE
the white aborng classes to maintain the price Of labor
will always oppose the introduction Of blacks and
fully Consequent on these causes OF dear very dear
land, and high priced labor farming pays badly in Aus
traia and hundreds are deferred from permanently
ting there, as they do not desire after aborng hard
the gold mines for years and acquiring capital be
PEELED 70 depend in farming on their personal work.
Now these people by coming here will be able To obtain
cheap land and any amount Of owpriced coorcd labor
thus supplying their two great wants And, moreover,
for market they could still depend on SYDNEY and Mel
bourne the former only and the latter six days steam
from New Caledonia, the rate Of freight by being
less than i would take to convey produce by land in
Australia thirty or forty miles from the interior.
AS in other new countries, New Caledonia only re.
qures TO be known 10 make its extraordinary natural
productions available and TO lead to its settlement In
all ume since they have been discovered the Pacific
islands have been noted for their prolific soils and unsur
passed climates but their distance from Europe has pre-
vented them hitherto being examined appreciated and
made available for trade and settlement The Disco
veries OF gold in California and Australia are tending
rapidly to proper knowledge of these islands, and short
~ monthly steam line between Sydney and Panama
will tend considerably To the further developement Of
their resources BY this Panama route we will thus be
III quick anu TeRuMT communication mails and
sengers with the States, and letters will be delivered in
New York before letters by the same mail from Sydney
will reach London
Already considerable trade exists between New York
ana Boston and Melbourne and Sydney. By your mer-
chants and men OF enterprise turning their attention to
New Caledonia and the neighborng islands their trade
could be largely extended and employment found for
numbers of those vessels that apparently living unem
poyed in most of your Northern ports II appears that
the Emperor and the French government anxious
hold out every nducement foreigners to settle here as
would appear from the decree giving them the same
rights as Frenchmen as is generally recognized and al
lowed that the French make poor co0nsts Information
has also arrived here with particulars of arrangement
made between an English party-who proceed
ed from Sydney TO France for the pur
posc-and the French government, for the settle
ment of portion Of the island. This party has OBJ
tanned decree making concession Of two blocks of
the Montfeur, being as folows:-6r each hundred and
five thousand acres the party is bound to introduce within
he years one thousand persons to consist of onethrd
whites and two thirds blacks, proportion Of onethrd
Of each color being females and two chlden under the
age of fourteen to count as one adult.
Thus, out of each thousand people two hundred and
twenty would be male whites and it is provided that each
Of these shall be supplied with lot Of not less than fifty
acres Of land free and in fee This would absorb about
eleven thousand out Of each los 900 granted
the balance, therefore, would remain to the cocesoares
The blacks introduced may belong to the Ma
are to be imported for the purposes Of labor their
engagements In one contract being limited to ten years Of
service but the terms Of their contract rates of wages
scale of food is left TO the employer Barracks depos
TO be erected whatever port the white settlers and
the black aborers will be introduced for temporary
commodation until the parties be distributed TO their
locations in the island.
choice of land is given northeast Of line drawn
across the island from Port Kanaa to Port St. Vincent
with right the grantees TO occupy sites for towns at
both Of these ports any other the island they
may choose on their side of the indicated line.
Arrangements with the aborgines and the protection Of
the settlers is conded to the grantees with the aid If
necessary Of the French fleet troops but not unless
called n specially.
special commissary is TO be named by the French
no
out of the treaty and convey titles Of these
lands to the white settlers. It will be the
duty Of this officer also 10 aid in arrangements with the
natives, if necessary, and to act generally behalf Of
the French government in carrying out the terms and
details OF the imperial decree. If carried out energet
caly this concession may be made the source of great
wealth to the parties who have obtained it, and may
and extended trade The provision for the introduce
ton Of coored labor in the decree is invaluable, with
such right any number of good black aborers could be
obtained at merely nominal rates of wages from the
northward for sugar estates and other plantations the
oiunns Of .nncs, &c. These colored laborers will be
astrioutea as they are landed amongst such set
ssS aad be o Fri S s made
at the islands from whence they win be
brought will be assigned TO the settlers / am glad TO
find that In the decree there Is general article providing
for the importation of these aborers in suitable vessels
carrying coolies between Pondicherry India and the
Island Of Bourbon, Re Union, in the Indian Ocean
Having thus stated the main features Of this scheme
leave the subject Of this valuable island and its rich pro
ducts in your hands, to be brought before the public
your convenience satisfied that for natural production
commerce and mining resources presents if not
unequaled advantages