THE TIMES ON NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5637, 10 December 1879, Page 6

THE TIMES ON NEW ZEALAND.

TO TIIE EDITOR. " MR, —Let u s "see ourselves as «f° «?• The Times' money article °^ ra that the progress of the colony i, f, r ta ,' Cfl exclusively on borrowed have our statesmen to eay to tlia.fr » ti • deniable! and the lato blame especially. Because, they rc'aH , 10 every way the customary and natural „ m of progress observed, in other coloni. a ' sparsely inhabited countries The* are the opening up of the countrvV""' 13 couraging capitalists to embark their , en " in pastoral pursuits, thereby producing ployment and >m export tra I- If eut policy had been observed N,. (v y , would be in a far better position i Workmen would not be dependin ■» r n « J "' expenditure of loans and public wwt. i would be scattered ov,r the iS bat profitable employment, and the credit ,f nl" colony would stand high. But a sec ' hs cry has been raised agaiuat all this great laudshark (tbo Government) h,-?. the waste lands locked up an.l ' Jt with the absurd idea of bentii-i,,.! ' terity 500 years hence. The time T"'" coma now to change all thi* ml r. to treat our waste lands ' a < j- U in Afrioa, North and South Ameti-t \ 6 tralasia, &u. It is ridiculous to art 3 " New Zealand was Belgium, KixVaml ' 3 " China—densely crowded. We have |" T than half a million iu a country as h ' the United Kingdom. Whyffoe'r 'e' fact? Why anticipate cvi ! < fiat "m come to pass for centuries? Whv not the Government act like auy ,Iri° U i laud agent— leave no stone untjr',,l , accommodate buyers, give every f ac '..-.. make terms easy? Tliey should" office in Queen-street, aud sell land a t - H prices to any fit applicant withouidcUi-";, quantities suitable to all purchaser?. .\i'j the Maoris to do as they pleas- with tlrf lands. What a differ .'nee then w. m M | observable, and what a high poiitio-i tl >S colony would enjoy iu tile L >n liii'm,,-,,. 0 market! Legislation tending thi/ w !l would surely bs better than what we «. going on in Wellington for the most part'" namely, "envy, hatred, malice, anil uncharitableuess."—lam, Ec;.ui, } -