NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1401, 14 May 1868, Page 3

NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

We publish below, from the Halifax Reporter, the refutation of certain statements of an unfavorable character to New Zealand, which have been made in Nova Scotia in a comparison of the two colonies. Had our champion had the returns of tho last census to hand, he could have even more completely vindicated our advancement, as he has done our capabilities and advantages as a field for emigration. In Nova Scotia we should have thought the advantages of New Zealand, and this portion of it especially, would have been too well appreciated and understood for anyone to have attempted such unfavorable comparisons as those now refuted. IV one have prospered in this Province so generally and ;so largely as those who in hundreds emigrated from Nova Scotia to Auckland, and none are more thoroughly pleased with their new country —we do not say its Government. We have spoken to very many settlers here from Nova Scotia on the two colonies, and have heard but one expression of opinion, namely, iatisfaction with the change they have made. To the Editor of the Halifax £eporter. Sir, —Will you allow me to correct one or two mistakes -which you have made, on the subject of the New Zealand Company, in your issue of Saturday. In the first place I would remark that it is very natural and also creditable to the patriotism of the settlers of this free and prosperous colony that they should feel regrets and sorrow when young men and families take their departure from their Nova Scotian homes to go and settle in other and distant parts of the world, and no doubt it wa3 this feeling which prompted you to comment upon the subject, ; with a view to dissuade people from leaving here. > You say that New Zealand "from its isolated Eosition has no market, that one single fact destroys er prospects as a land for the reception of emigrants." Australia and New Zealand have larger i exports and imports, in proportion to their population, than any other countries of the world, and their markets are many and very accessible. The largest portions of i.their gold, wool, copper, gums, tallow, and surplus breadstuffs to the value of over 30 millions sterling, is exported to the English market, and besides this, numerous shipments of gold, ] copper, coal, horses, sandal wood, gum and other exports are sent to the markets of India, China, Java, and other eastern ports which are, on an aver- I age distance, only 14 days steaming, and about 35 days sailing. The exportation of Australasian wines has already began, and before many years they will find markets in every part of the world ; and "the prospects of New Zealand as a land for the reception of emigrants," instead of being " destroyed," are bright and promising of a prosperous future, in proof of which she has lately doubled her population in six years. In 1856 New Zealand contained only about 60,000 souls, and her population now is nearly 225,000, and emigrants are still pouring in at a rate which, together with her great natural increase will make the population over 500,000 in another decade. Even admitting that the natural capabilities of soil and minerals of Nova Scotia and New Zealand are equal, New Zealand has an invaluable advantage in the possession of her salubrious, equable climate —a climate in which the newly arrived emigrant has no need to make provisions against a rigorous winter, as he can live under a tent, and wear the same suit of clothes all the year round— while he is reminded of an English or American winter when he looks up from the ever green valleys and plains at the summits of lofty mountains capped with eternal snows—in crossing over ■ which he would no doubt need a warm overcoat. The military medical statistics of the British army have proved long ago that New Zealand is the healthiest military station on the globe, both as regards the soldiers and their wives and children. In conclusion I would remark that the " sea path" to New Zealand, from here or Europe, is safer and more clear of hurricane tracks, and probably less " whitened with the bones of emigrants " than the " sea paths " across the North Atlantic, in proportion to the numbers who have sailed over them. I remain, &e., One who has lived in New Zealand AND INTENDS TO KETUKN THERE. Halifax, Jan. 13, 1867.