TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1871.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1167, 14 November 1871, Page 2

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1871.

s — ♦ — i K~s advertisement which appears in fch« columns of our contemporary, th Lyttelton Times, has in it a greater significance than at first sight appears. \\ purports to be an announcement from a New York firm simply offering their wareß for nale, but it is in reality an evidence of the energy of our Yankee cousins, aud evinces a de termination on their part to extend their commercial transactions by opening up a trade with Australasia and Polynesia ; and it would be well if wh in New Zealand took a leaf out ol their book, and imitated them in their indomitable energy and perseverance^ What has made the United States the great country that it is ? Its inhabitants are of a mixed race, like the Australasian colonist*, but by fur the greater majority of them are of Anglo Saxon origiu, and thus with us they maybe said to Imva a common <ii.4ace.iit. What then, in such ;i comparatively short space ot time, has madv) the Americana ho great a nation —:i nation having tlo-ninion ov«r nearly the whole of the Western Hftniaplieio whoso shores are bound-d <m the onside by the Atlantic and on the othi-r by the Pacific ocean A nation vvliom commercial, fiiilorprisfi i.s ho j*n j a.t that vessels bearing Iho " slurs arid stripes" . an» to brf found in every port iv tin known world, and (n. vexing i-vt-n sea. XotiiiiM^ .-■•■•••;■.> to b*- tun sin-ill !'•> . the jLctnkirnv.' notice, nothing tuo grcu for them to acc-'nu.wish. Th 3 reply to the . quer=.e* we hay. put it* ver}' jjlui'j — -11 p ni'i in Htied' th it he who runs uny ••<>.•"!. It luw beei the object — fruin ftr-*t (•• hi-t — of tht- ■■ Americana to fuliv dc.«lop ih<* re sources of lh»-'ii' i-ountry, to utili«< each one of its produ-.-ts and Jurn i 1 . ilito an :?.;•: U:\e or' in«.rU-'-;ab»e value ; .they have determined r.'ij.c isi>! a »inj»le acre of their vast ttuM'itvrie* .xhill r<* main idle and unocqupiou I',1 ', atifl for t1..---purpose of t!iov'nu:.>'nly ' op.i-niiig th*:ni up they h:wo con^truetcd iind are still forming .".qd phm^'iLC works which { arc- gigani.iu inrthcir, proportions. And ' ■what. !;u3 .been. th^.Tesul! .? P >•. u!ut ion ' has flowed ju and ia wtill (lowing in to people the immense terriror^s of t\w- ' . Unttud Slatoa ; ..overv iiich of avaijablf ; land will bo occupied ond turned toia profitable account ; manulVtctotiea will still spring up in every direction, th<' resources of the country, whether mineral, pastoral, or jign'cuitural, will , be developed to the hishe^t degree,* until the whole of the United States | becomes a vast hive of busy industry. ! "We believe that a similar future J awaits New Zealand. We have now | at the head of affairs men who — by means of large public works, concurrently with immigration — are determined to develop the resources of the country, and we rejoice that the people, through their representatives, have energetically backed up the Ministry in their noble work of colonisation. Not that colonisation ■which would fill our lands with sheep, but that which would people them with I men who, by their energy and perseverance, would bring oar soil, ofar mineral resources, and the waters which wash our shores under tribute. We have from time to time pointe d out how great our natural resources

are. The amount of wealth lying dormant in our undeveloped coal-fields is something startling, and yet during " the wretched past " we actually in n few years sent a million and a quartei of money to enrich another colony, ii return for coal, whilst we had ai abundance of the very same niinera lying almost at our very feet. And t-f it has been with many other resource we could mention. Despite, however, the wailings of those who still fondh cling to the remembrance of the past, the things which pertain to that past are rapidly fading away, and those who live upon this remembrance know it, and hence their wailings of despair. A new era has commenced for Is r e\v Zealand, a bright future is before her inhabitants, aud despite the " forcible feebleness" of a few, tho e-norety of the people, under skilful direction, will triumph, making us great and pro-j---perous as a nation.