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Lord Ino-liaret has thought it worth his while to correct Captain Acker:es 's soli:sot at the Guildhall meeting on Wednesday, that lie held 50,00o acres of land in New Zealand. In a letter to the Morning Chronicle, Ii., i.a.rmlahai1m t s-- " 'file ta,Sy '',,iu,'.s,.,, Ii.at I have with tbat country is as Chairman of the New Zeaiatie Compass ;i V.Ibbin collectively iii vested all interest in the lands which Lae ma 11«:11 ."
Lord Dis-haue does sot:I-mein to has e been aware that Captain Ackerley was probably prompted ill make his absurd statement by a leading unit- to
with which 'ma a ast0111:dled the tOW11 Ohl :violably morning. It is ineoncei vat :., hoes such a pack of nonsense as the 7'imen printed on the New Zvalasd meeting could have fowls: its way into any journal within tho sphere td' tatiobality, or p'' miss''! of' the ordinary means of infor- mation. We sive one or two specimens of the delectable farrago- " Although we have waited long for the fruits of our labnurs in exposing fs, enormous land thefts which, affecting to assume the forms of honest pureleo, and legal conveyance, have for some years been practised upon the New Zea- landers, both by individual anti corporate rapacity, we are gratified to see, from im advertisement, numerously and respectably signed, that the higher dna of merchants, bankers, mid shipowntm in the City are at length bestirring themselves to shame the Government out of their connivance in these depredations, ass to compel the purloiners to disgorge their fraudulent spoils. " In later days, through what magical agency we know not, enormous trees of those regions appear to have been acquired also by persons of considendkat in this country. 'llens the Earl of Durham was fortunate enough to possess himself of about a million neves, [this beats Ackerley, in the proportion of twenty to ones] purchased with a Chaim assortment of -6-alembic" which cost his
Lordship between 80/. and 90/. •
" The Earl of Durham having faint, that the Government were aesyfins lea:ivy towards his New Zealand appripriations, lots up to this day hermetis .'ally sealed his wrath against the Whigs, and been seized with an incapacitating
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it is, huwever, gratifying tee think that on Wednesday the whok of this euir will undergo a thorough murehing. We sincerely trust that the meeting will be well attended, and that its rational objects will be gained."
Not the faintest glimmering of knowledge of the subject he was writing about hadfound its way to the brain of the bemused penman. The acquisition of the million of acres, and the '• incapatitatieg illness," (as if the indisposition, known to be dangerous, from which Lord Durham is but slowly recovering, had been feigned) ;ere rich enough, but the best of the joke is that the New Zealtual meeting was got up to expose the New Zealand Company ! and that Mr. Francis Bating, Mr. 0, r, Young, Mr. Somes, and the rest—most of them stanch Tories, by the way—were bound to compel themselves and their associated "purloiners' to disgorge their own ill-gotten spoils! Had the usual writers of the Times looked at the requisition in their own columns, they would have been spared the mortification of inserting this ridiculous contribution. The proceedings at the Guildhall will, however, prevent them from repeating any thing so foolish. The 77mcs is too shrewd to disregard the amithereial consequences of hccoming em en for a day the laughing- stock of London.
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