YOUNG NEW ZEALAND AND PHOSPHATE OF LIME.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 30, 15 April 1878, Page 2

YOUNG NEW ZEALAND AND PHOSPHATE OF LIME.

A banquet was recently given by the sons of old colonists in Waikato to tho Hon John Sheehan, as tho first Colonial born M,inistor of ll>o New Zealand Cabinet In proposing l,ho toast of " Young New, Zealand," Mr Shcehan said : " Boforo, Koing to young Now Zealand, ho would like lo pay n respect to old Now Zoaland — their fathers, nnd, mothers who m«dp tho country for young Now Zoalnnd, Wo should not forgot thoso who hardonod their hands and bronzod thoir fr.oos to make young Now Zealand's path smooth ami pleasant. Ho remembered a .scientific lecture in Wellington, in which it was stated that younpf Now Zealand mnst degenerate. Ho was told for want of phosphato of limo. — (Laughter.), He thought differently. How many of young Now JJoalnnd, now in Waikito, woro there not who had dono thoir duty nobly in, dofcndjng (ho country, Tho young oolo* ntai, in this rospoct, oould claim to bp, anything but deficient in phosphato. of lime. Tho samo in intellectual pursuits. Every, town in Now Zealand was ovidonco of this. Wo had as good lawyers nnd ploadors as any who had como from homo. Wo hud not, produced many clergymen, and porhops in that rospoot woro deficient i j phosphite of lirap, Ho, did not think tho AtißlonSaxon blood, would deteriorate from going through tho Now Zealand funnel. If thoro waa any alteration, it would bo physically and morally for tho bettor. Tho powor to roproduoo was a test of this— go through tho country whorqyoumay, tho groups of children would show that in this ronpect tho colonists woro not deficient in phosphato of limo, Years would soon pass, and thoy would beoomo old colonists, and wo should never forgot that in no part of tho world had Anglo-Saxons such an oppor* tunity of building, up a groat nation. No colony had such a destiny beforo it, and it was for us to work tho dostiny of New Zealand to a great and prosperous issue. If thcro was ouo thing that would mako

a pigmy«mindod people of Now Zi'.il.ir i instead of v great nivl prosperous one, would be tho noglecl of pul>lio nll'iiis f. (he sake of too closely attending to l!> making of tt^oney. It wns tlio fnult < too many to leave politics to work the solyos put. No m,an sh mid let polities C 1 tho upper haul of his o«vn business b;.' ho mijst not lenvo public nffrtirs nlqn altogether. Ho did trust that what li had said would not bo forgqtton, bqt th when young New Zealand took to hir self a permanent ondowmont, and , wen in to fulfil tho scriptural injunction I • incroaso nnd multiply, ho would incnloat tho snmo prinoiples to his children."