LABOUR AND PRODUCTION AT THE CAPE.
WARNING 10 AUSTHALASTASS. (Eeceived Oct 31, 9' 54 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Government Commercial Agent in South Africa reports tbat there are good prospects of trade, and tbat the population iii rapidly increasing. Producers are very slow, in getting to work again, and the production Is not likely to increase to a great extent for some years. He insists that notbioig but the best quality of goods should ho Bent in order to compete with formidable countries like the Argentine, ' . ' Recent retorUß give distressing accounts of the South Af riorn labour market. A weUknowu Bielbourne sharobroker, aa the result of an extensive tour, says that the whole country ib in a Btate of chaos, and it will be years before any immigran of moderate means will be able to mako eeea au ordinary living. The land is full of diseases of man and beast, with storms and floods and disastrous droughts, and it would be crimina folly for Australians to join the mad mat to South Africa till matters mend. iVTiawi in— rt. »
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 31 October 1902, Page 3
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