FARMING IN NEW ZEALAND.
{From the LyHelton Times.) With the unbounded supply of land in a new colony, it is a strange anomaly that we tiro compelled to resort to other colonies, and even to the States of America, for the stall' of life. If we inquire what is the price of wheat, we are answered that there is no wheat in tho market. All breadstuff's are imported. "We are told that it will not pay to grow a large breadth of corn on our 1 nnds, therefore many acres were laid down in grass. "When we inquire a little farther, wo arc told that labor is too dear to allow corngrowing to bo a profitable business. JSTor is that all, for we are told that very many of those men who are complaining that they can get no work, are not able efficiently to perform a clay's Avork, but that all must be paid the shilling an hour. Government work is apparently tho great dependence of 1 oo many of our Laborers, who to obtain that, live in the town where everything is dearest. How it comes that we have so many inctfieioufc laborers is not our business to discus 3.
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Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 759, 31 January 1865, Page 4
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