New Zealand’s Growth.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 223, 17 February 1874, Page 7

New Zealand’s Growth.

, A i winter in the Nelson Mail relates the fol- ‘ Ipwjug facta regarding fhe increasing impor- . 'tiplM d{ thifi ! (polony at Homo ; —Talking of f' prosperity; I'toi reminded that, ’a ,few days aince I had llm. inc'rekiihg.iuipor.tancemf New ZertlaridLas a whole brought Toroibly under my; notice; I;was looking over the advertis ing columns of the London Times of the 24th October, and there I saw a list-of--the ships at present engaged in the' New trade.' And how many do you suppose there were? You might answer, perhaps, with a certain' amount of surprise at your own rashness, ‘ Five-'and-twenty'; hut you would be far uhder the mark, and l suspect I should have'tell’you several times to guess again, before '•you arrived at'the actual number, which was fifty-four. Nor are theysmall insignificant -boats, for their tonnage ranges from 798,’ the lowest, to 2500, the highest. Not bad" tlfis for England’s youngest Colony, which when the last census was taken did - not number more than a quarter of million of poll’s. I aria sorry to say that in that long list I could only found two whose destination was Nelson, but I hope by this time next year we shall require more than these to do our work. Of the vessels named, six are now building for the Otago trade specially. They 1 are tu be 1200 tons each, and will he ", named respectively the Auckland, Cauter- ' bury,- Wellington, Nelson, Dunedin, and In- ■ .'Vercargill. ; New Zealand mast'be'somewhat ' better known at Hhriie that it was a few years ago, when such a fleet as is advertised'in one " London newspaper is required for its trade with the Home country.