Better than Starch or Jam.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1724, 24 August 1885, Page 3

Better than Starch or Jam.

I" tit Eh; ,,,■ uf tin' .V indiird, Nin. —VVe arc at present occupied with conquering tue advHabiiity of establishing a Btatcn 1 actory, ami I may say a Jam Factory too. \uiy good, nu doubt ; hut I think it duuntfui it Wc shall succeed in noth. Now, 1 want to tv.e the Waifarap.-r aavaoce, ;t bv leaps and bounds,’ if jolt like, as Sir Jooleyus says, but ut any rate aUmice. And, don’t yu.t thiua, Mr Editor, mat we snail ne acting just as wisely ia souuin- out a prospecting party to search for gold as to il ii/ole in starch or jam. Iu Auckland and Wanganui there is a move in the dietcciuU of opening up the country in search of gad, and it may be with gOvd result. Let us nope, e<>. I believe-that all the depression that exists at the present time throughout New Zealand, and I may say everywhere, is owing to the diminution m the yield of go,lii. it was gold that made Aus tralia what it is at tue present day. It was gold that gave NMw Zealand the important position ehe at present occupies ; and it was omy when there *a. a falling on m tue yield that depression set iu. When gold was plentiful, times were good : wages rose and prosperity abounded on every hand. When the yield of our goluhelus slackened we did not expenses proportionately. Everybody IV.ived on ae before ; goons were imported to 1 the colony just the same, aud, consequently, bad times followed. Had we been careful, all ihis depression could have been avoided. Neither Australia or New Zealand would have advanced as they have done had it not been for their gold fields, and I contend that what we want now is a fresh rind. I am an ohl digger and have seen the best of days in Victoria and New Zealand, and my bear: longs to enter once more into ihe busy scene of life on a prosperous gold field. But how can wa expect to advance it’ we don’t prospect the country around us Depend upon it we are slumbering when we ought to oe thinking of tue advantage a gold field would be to tins district. Keep uiu view fellow eettlers, and when the dimmer comes see to it that you are ready to :cad out u prospecting party to ilia langt.-. Get 20i> persona who will eiiiucribc a note each (wliat a trillel —and yon can • juip guo-1 practical man to explore tnc country. 1 cannot go pfoq.ecing myself, but 1 W ill tike III) five shares in dich a work, and before thu summer is over jam may—J btiu.-vo you will—rejoice in the ,-lep taken. Then va-ii will have starch, ami j tin, and butler air.; chee.-i, without pumping the hut shilling out id th,; p.i -kcts ol the pour urim rs to pay for shares, Ihe i,:d indeutiiies did their noble v.i-rs ion.' ago when they op-au-d up this country. Let l.'u.r son; coup out now and tmc.v wo at split they v.; ,-„t. It ..illy a d ->n spiiiU ,t i;.. n c.'U.n be rami i . act UUtle>il) EneV Vi'oU.d mu',e tiie dl-ti.-t , inv.ou'd in spue ot au Uli- cloak, 1.0 L t US hv.e jam and s’ 10 .1 b . .-.ii me .11; —but ;•; a.-, sc iron nit ,or menu: w-■•aim uii *. and rt.-e Irein u c 'oiiiion u! Lies} ,iu to oUGi-i joy and pro.p-. li .V. I am, Ac., ilui ei