NEW ZEALAND'S FUTURE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 6838, 10 February 1891, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND'S FUTURE.

A correspoudcutmObristcluirck, who, stales he " occupied.,' until .reconfly a responsible i oilicial position under the New Zealand Government," writes lo the Fiuaucial Nmvs a long loUer, from- which wo make tho ; &l!owing;«ctraet: It will bo asked, "What have you to offer to the' English; capitalist? , ' I answer, Security ■■far toiler. Iku many English investments, iucomparablyjjeUur thau Irieh pues, aoliuialo always temperate and iu. which the agricultural anc2 labouring; classes caii work «L 1 the -year found ; a couatry not subject to floods or . dfouglit ulilje-v aud ! yct watered in every: direction by spriuga and tilrearaa, a soil so produclivd'evea iu its -virgin, state as to yii'ld rekrns -unknowb in other countries, a land which at : the present , time exports nioreWool, and of a finer quality, Ihau sister colonies of (en. times it«'sizo, whoso frozen ineattakes: th'e vhigbeafc .price in tie Knglisb. market, and which is absolutely teeming with . valuable; "nihierals, not a lithe of i which has yet 'Wen dcvelopon. It'is estimated "that therbaro' alioiit , 12,000,000,, acres- of native-lands ,not. not yet. acquired by thc.Govcrnniqnli. Hitherto it. has been almost impossible for ■ private - individuals to deal with native" lands, .but there is every indieution-' that \n shall get a common seuso Goyerument'.soon which will abolish the !absurd, restrictive native land. Acts, and reverse:(be dog-iu-the manger policy i of neither buying themselves nor allowing ;others to'do so. When this day. arrives we shall see an influx ; of home capittil aud population of. the. right sort, which will do miore good than.all the Government immigration schemes.. Land along the proposed-route of-the main trunk line of railway,- which years ago .was sneered at ■as • too broken and uufitfoi , :'

settlement ; is even now; selling af a : good- pried, ..arid giving' r a handsome, profit'to the original selficlors. ,; -'_ Beceiit visits of'Mioisters: through thoiuterior show that ;the "North Island will be a groataheep, and cattle : -country, and that ' its powers of productionJmve heenmuch ; underrated; All these millions of acrestire to "all intents and purposes uninhabitedaud .altogether uncultivated. What a future, there will bo for those investing now when this laiid is occupied by praclical farmers and agriculturists!, Take as an;' instanca- of ■ ;what I mean the Paraekarctu lauds,. • Wheul. .was' acting for the Government : som6 -years ago,/! ■ offered the natives some hundreds of iier-wi-. , . of laud there for a small piceo hi tlicfettl* , ed districts. : I was met by the remark, that '\ A bird could live there, but: white niau or a Maori could unt>" Look' at it now,. with its roads'and railway running through it, its thriving aud industrioua settlers. Messrs Duncan's estate of .Otint, which some years back was valued at from to £9000, is/ now valued at £72,000, Silver Hope, belonging to Wr.S.'W, Fitverynf London,' is anothw , instance, : One more es» ample of progress. A little. over 10 years ago the district between Waiigauui aud laranaki (a dielrict which for 100 miles contains sonie of the fiuesHaiid ia the colony) waa.a wilderness of fern, with, nolhiugbut native 'racks through it, aud , exposed to the ■constant outbreaks of its lavage and warlike ocoiipanfe, Eiug up the curtain, and what do you now see? A countryeovcred with.' amiliugaod cultivated horoesteada, excellent roudsaud bridges, and a railway running through the whole district ; numerous : small' townships and village's, with the spires of theii , - churches peeping out from amongst the trees ;' and, on u nearer approach, tha'splendec! school buildings ■[ ereoted by the Government for ■ the ii es education of childi'en;of all D-assea. : On the yeiy, spot where about the time 1 have mentioned above stood a small Hod land bank redoubt,,in which.we .had to keep constaflt wateh and ward, and wilhv jin a, mile of the Turu-Turu-Mokai ve r doubt, which was stormed aud captured by.Titokowaru, Captain Eosa and most of the defenders being killed, stands u flourishing town in which there are nine ■ hp.tols, churches for ell clenomjaalions,: •four or five\ banks, town hall, council; chamber, Beaident Magistrate's Court! J Post and Telegraph. Offices, etc, All years.,'!.hi 'epito of" misrule, native land complications,' iusitftlcient■ capital, bank overdrafts,,and the inevitable inexperience of newcomers; , ■.