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240 PROJECTED TOWNSHIPS. personification of frank good nature, and the sedate Aywarre were enlisted into this terrible but imaginary complot. However, as the weather was very fine, and had been so ever since my arrival, I determined upon an excursion into the interior, to Waimate, the head-quarters of the Church Mission, which is distant about twenty miles from Kororadika. Accompanied by two gentlemen, who, like myself, en tertained none of those fears which agitated the public, I set out on a beautiful morning, about the beginning of April, and crossed the Bay of Islands, in a boat, to the entrance of the Waitangi river, on the left bank of which, near its confluence with the bay, is the site of Mr. Busby’s proposed city of Victoria. This township having been neatly laid out into squares and streets, with an exchange and other public buildings, has been sold, partly to Sydney capitalists and partly among the people of the Bay of Islands, at prices varying from 100Z. to 400Z. per acre. The advantages which Victoria possesses over Kororadika, and Russell, the “ Proclamation ” township of the Bay of Islands, consists in its being backed by an extensive district of level, or gently undulating land, totally free from trees, and which, therefore, may be sup posed capable of being easily brought into cultivation. It affords an easy communication with the interior by way of the valley of the Waitangi and the shores of Lake Maupere, by which route a carriage road may very easily be made, all the way to Hokianga or the western coast. Possessing these advantages, and being, moreover, pleasingly and healthfully situated, Victoria would cer-