Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land CompanyMatthew, Patrick
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
Matthew, Patrick
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration; Scots New Zealand Land Company
The Scots New Zealand Land Company is not a land speculating company,
consisting of great capitalists residing in this country and
trafficking in New Zealand with intent to profit. It is a company of
industrious men, chiefly working small capitalists, who are to go
out to New Zealand to make their own market, and, after seeing the
article, to purchase a territory either at first hand from the natives,
or from any other individual or company, wherever they can obtain
lands best and cheapest, and to occupy these as soon as bought, thus
leaving no room for mistake as to tenures, multiplicity of claimants,
or doubtful claims. They, with their families, will themselves
cultivate the lands they purchase, as is done in the non-slave portion
of the United States, where the principles of colonization, from
greater experience, are better understood than in Britain, and where
the practice is successful beyond all parallel, the only instance of
successful colonization on an extensive scale without slavery,--indeed,
the only manner in which colonization can now succeed without slavery,
notwithstanding of the “sufficient price,” (merely a new Corn Law!) or
any other servant-producing scheme it is possible to devise.
The Scots New Zealand Land Company of emigrants will manage their own
affairs,--their own property, while existing as a company, and their
political and social matters till the British crown shall interfere
to supply a government. They will form their own regulations in
New Zealand, suited to local circumstances, with the full power of
modifying or changing these _immediately_, as events may require. They
will not be subservient to the rule and dictation of a company of land
speculators, or committee ambitious of governing power, residing at
the other side of the globe, who may have interests and principles,
or prejudices, distinct from or opposed to those of the colonists,
and who, even with the best intentions of acting for the good of the
colonists, must, from ignorance of facts, at least only receiving their
knowledge of these through a colouring or distorting medium, combined
with the long period of time that must elapse before the Home Committee
can be made acquainted with the necessity of any change of regulations
and orders for the change arrive out,--be full as likely to direct
wrong as aright.
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