Colonisation.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3259, 18 July 1889, Page 2

Colonisation.

The principles of colonisation, like all others, require experience to per-' feet them. In times past, especially in Australia, it hits been the practice of the Imperial Government to jiand over the entire colonial estates to the !iandfi|l of jQlojifeta w!)q were prepared to take upon themselves the work of responsible government. It must bo admitted that in doing this the Imperial Government acted in* '

of grout liberality, Whcthor wisdom qually predominated is another inaUe.l, Wee nndidly confess to having our doubts upou that point, End n groator dogrco of caution prevailed, it is quite possiblo that bettor results could have been obtained. But it is no uso crying over spilt milk. The Imperial Government, however, think that, looking at the [white in tho light of the past, no moro errors chonld bo committed, It does not think that the vast area of Western , Australia should be handed over .4 absolutely to tho control of tho few ' ? peoplo now settled on the borders of that great territory. A limit- is: therefore to he imposed, and the area northward of the twenty-first dogrco of latitude is not to pass under the control oVta colonists. But there is n furthownpiilatioii; the proceeds of land sales are to go towards emigration, Tint is a very proper limitation. If the colonies had there time to go over again they would not make tho mistako of using land lands ns > revenue. But those who guided their infantfootsteps either could not foresee what was the right step to take, ovelso perceiving it, they had not tho power or the wish to porform the painful right, Still, if others are now about to profit by our errors, wo must bo satisfied with the knowledge that wo have added something to tho sum of human happiness, and we shall l>n nblo to rejoice all tho more in the future that awaits Western Australia, That futuro should ho a i>reat one il thoso to whom the destinies of tho ( Colony aroabout to ho entrusted, only .jSfiiiako the most ot the opportunities about to be placed within their grasp, —Telegraph, Tho polico party out 011 duty at Kimberley lound a white man living with the natives. Ho wa3 evidently a survivor from a shipwreck, and some yew ago was captured by the natives, lie then being a child.