WHY THE EXODUS LASTS.

Evening Star, Issue 8529, 30 May 1891, Page 2

WHY THE EXODUS LASTS.

TO THB EDITOB. Sib, Having read the platform the National Liberal Association is formed to advocate, I have decided to give New Zealand a fond farewell, as so many are now doing. of everybody and eVeiw

interest sounds all very well, but the losing of some 60,000 colonists since the last census (according to Sir Robert Stout) is too serious a matter to let pass without reflection, and I ask why this thusness. Where the colonists now would be but for the inception and adoption of the frozen meat export I shudder to contemplate. The farmers have had for once a good season, and grain and wool brought fair values. The mining industry languishes for want of better management, and unscrupulous promoters, who, after providing for themselves and their creatures, care naught for taa contributing shareholders, who pay the piper. The professions of the skilled experts are never realised, and some penalty should be exacted from those gentry who certify to yields that are never proved to exist when the " wash up" takes place. The nationalisation of mines worked under Government inay bring about a muchneeded reform, also the coastal marine service. Bat the whole thing seems to me as -j. retaliation on the part of the baffl-jd strikers to get even with the Union Steam Snip Company, who will none of them. These who read may learn. The failure of the floatation of the Queensland loan ::iusi; come home to the reason of the •siieareis. Very shortly their Bervices won't ba wanted. A few tquatters may have to succumb, ■ut the many will suffer. The British public have shown by their refusal t<> uruki-write or subscribe to the Victorian ami Queensland invited loans their want of faith ia our so-called national liberal o'.vuies; and, as we cannot borrow, the chu.es if employment for the laborer seems circumscribed. —I am, etc., Obskevkk. Dunedin, May 30.