THE PREMIER AT OAMARU.

Evening Star, Issue 3406, 21 January 1874, Page 2

THE PREMIER AT OAMARU.

[FrQmtfc Tlfieij i ' f The Hon. Julius' Vogel, accompanied by Mrs Vogel, arrived In Oamiani early oil ftiday afternoon,having driven' up from Hpunpdenjien route for Owing to the miscarriage of-a on ■ Friday morning, there was no official reception. One of the topst active of our citizens.flihwever (Mr Shrimski), visitors to the Harbor works, the party VVors bip the Mayor faOr Wait), M rate ward, M. H.E.,Capstcin .Well, master, and several p£; the .citizens, A special train would bare been provided )>y the contractors, hut the.iibtice given so short that steam could not be gof up in time. At the works Mr Vbghl was contractors. Messrs Walkem and Pbyman. 'by whom he was shown all' the details of #ho w6rk. The large travelling crane wks'inspected by Mr Vogel, who ex pressed.'grisat satisfaction that so splendid $ pieoe ofmaohinery could have been manufactured din. He also was much .surpnsed .at the extent of the operations going oh. The crane ; Was got under steam/and a blofek whidKiig twenty-tive tons was lifted hhd carried tb the end of th«j wall, where i|i was 1 Towered.* Alitor inspecting the, mixing machinery the party returned: by train. Having yielded theßostoffice and qthec publip buildinge, MrVogel, .with Mrs yogel f proceeded,to Fernbropk; H T MUler- bepanie - In compliance with ah invitation giveh^ty ’• , ’ ''a. 'PlsfitfiR■ S' l was given toMr Vogel, on Saturday evenmg, at the Jatsr and Garter Hotel/, An.hxceilent table, considering, ths'. veiy/bfeort notice giyen, was proyid v e4. v , ( ,H?B i ,Worship the, Mayor pcoapi£d :the chair/ and Mr Steward, M.H. K., the vice-chair. • F ~T h® Premier, ih replying to thb Msf of his health, which had been received Nvith much enthusiasm, spoke as'follows inrotbreuce to railways and immigration i—Since his arrival in Oamarn he had oppbr. tumty of seeing the extensive and important harbor works going on thefei Theiaitiatton of such an undertaking spoke highly for their energy and enterprise. ' The breakwater was a work of , more than local importance ~lt was f“ e fEcwta of-Which' hfche Oblbhyjvas interested-a work Which might eved be r watched With interest by this fifeighborihg Colonies. He admitted that bbti/he saw Hie he had ; 'no belief in its periAaUeupo 9 but now he had seen it, it kppeftred him that they had bv&y reasonable pbbspect of success. ’ Offcburse same extent experimental, ■ but l theamotint 'of success which they had a' right 'te expect was quite Sufficient to justify adargeExpenditure in carrying on the work. 1 ■ ill bis Memory salved iiim rightly,it was whilehe was a member of the Provincial Government that some assurance, was given to the people'of Oamaru that harbor w6iks‘.yvpuldW.lroceejed with j but he was free 'tb adnst‘ r &at the concession, was inade unwillingty : ahd more because of poitieal ConaUefatiOnfebni. siderations wiHi the political ttfrfe*. tance of Oamaru, than from any belief W&o works proving of Ho would go so far as'to saytbaf he how believed the Work would provo a sUcceeS ; and'it wab “?S5 r , f or congratuiatien that' a work-' which mighthaye had its ongiu from'hdlitifcalcbn'was likely to ; 'prbW satisfabtibfy from an poiht bf were some persons who said ths a WfttkFhiiK *** op iST

Ways, becanselt'worildv tfrtome extent, confe 'into competition with them. Now. 'forbid* self, be was : largely chfiritoted 1 witk ... the .railway ,pplicy t : even if ho were that the breakwater wail'd prove a'fprmuf* able opponent of the railway, he would still say, ‘‘ Go Oh’with the wbrk Cheers )' Hje did not wisb ( to see the railways free of all competition'; on the contrary, he thought it moat undesirable that the Governmentshould ; have the power to lease railways as rnonopo- ! ; lies. dr that they (the railways) should come to be.regarded by the, Government solely as a ' mCanS 1 of raising revenue. This was no new, ppipion. of hi ß i .be .had. expressed the 1 same view recently far a ’speech at an agri. ; J wtttiral dinner afld on several previous p;.'eaj- 1 ■ions.] He did not considerthat it should be 1 the aim of tbcG.oyernmect to make the rail* ] ways at once pay, the interest on .the cost of * construction, -or tha£ the ,rate of freight < .should bp' .ftepb at i( high figure.' ,What 1 would be said ‘if the tolls bn the. roads 1 were made to pay the interest bn 1 .ppstj.; Why, .the impost would high 1 that the cry weurd have things < as Nature left tin in.” / And what were rail? ways but r mbderh;r{quipped roads?' 'TheV must look t'b the collateral 'benefits. oi : th'e railway scheme—tho "opening up : of;' the country arid ttie ! s'et'flsmerit'ri'f the iritocier-i • whibh’wt/ald’bo their certain'result. '’ Water .carriage would bo the, principal pb&petitioii J arid, it was so rriricb the Better where snch competition was * as it would, keep down* the 'ibstrif carriage ; i and no dbhVt the’day' Would 7 bbtUe ’ru the j Oam&u'district whi?ii the questioh fbr: ioni ] sideration by their wbbl-growers' would be I whether it 1 was eheapep to ship it cir wo A bl at 1 the breakwater, sirild send it by water' to the '•[ ship’s side, or Whether to 'Send it by rail 1 through tp Port Chalmers. .Whatever might ,1 be the aUsweif''of experience to thdt question] ‘ : there Was.ohe crbs^ 1 of! Treight which' lie bei ‘ lieved 7 lt would b’d • found' riiore suitable to -i send by water. ,lt would pVobably he found hett.er the Oa'maru stone'by water , ta the large'ships thaU tb Send it % rail; ! « n d, bo believed that the splendid stone of , - Which they possesiedan inexhaustible supply would command a large.mathet in the Co- , loD y;, proye 1 a large and' va 1 uable export I to tub neighboring Colonies "if -the I break- < ' Water,<provad'-»as!he hoped and belifevedTxt } Would—ftsuccoss.; Those who opposeli»the 1 railway scheme on the.gronnd thatrit Would j T not be an] immediate; financial-success must hear in mind that it would' leave behind it results of a imore satisfactory riature; 1 and '■ there was one consideration' which;he would • ask them to .take - into 'account; in judging of ,the.railway policy)':and that was the enor> * .>moufl.increase in the-,-value of private pro-! 'j pertyalqne, which Had been its dirfect tosulfc • Xi they appraised the .value ofthepropertV . t mi private handsi and the vnlne of the’ pro* , pertydn; the hands of the.. Government ittime* i , diately .priortothe initiation .of railway ..policy* and the value, of the sarrie property . the present; time* they would find'-that , thir increase wasnsufficient do cover tori cost ■ ofeconatractingthe-lines twice over.—(Ap-i i ;plSn*e.’) < o-Butthe' mere construction of : 'rail J i \.waya wasnotisufficicnt, and the scheme! ■; would fail tof tber-success looked for, unless ■ .thrirqwas population to use them ; indeed; ‘ the immigration branch of : the policy Wai of; As mribh J importance as the construction , of public works. Great difficulties had had to bb encountered in procuring a Sufficient , supply of Suitable immigration-^suchj culties as in thb- riatiiio of things always attended the initiation of a large scheme, ami difficulties also of a special nature 1 arising ; fropt,. the, competition in, the labor market' arid, thb increased rate of Wages at Home; hut' he was happy to say that immi- < £&tioU'’WaS'inoW progressing much mrirri • vorably than hitherto. It; was no part of ; thb policy to bring iti immigrants for the mere purpose of reducing the rate of wages; ; indeed* a reasonably high rate of wages might , DGitjHit© consistent withthe fjeneral prosperity. ; of'.the country.; He looked to immigration: ! Creatihg a large amount of wants ; 111 6 polony, f;b supply which Would induce: ’ u Correspondingly large demand for labor ; for toy the 1 operation of great economic laws the' labor brought in' to supply wants in one direction, itself created wants in another, to ■ prqvifie for which further labor Was required .soj that,.the; employbs 'became themselves employers in their turn. But to work out : trie policy; with success it would require to be carefully, watched and attended to in all its years.:to 'come*-, and tbereVwas no question of greaterimportanoe connected with . the •administration-t of immigration; rfhan the judicious distribution of the ; immigrants. .This was a matter attended with consider-: able difficulty, for there was a possibility of sending a greater amount of labor to one place than it could - absorb, (: while another part-of Colony was suffering from an in-i . sufficient supply. Unless that were avoided - there might; even ,he as a Tesulfc of the, maladniinistration ,of a policy calculated to prove so beneficent to the country as a whole/ a '.oonsiderarile amount of Ibcaj. distress, and they might even' hear lu some localities the cr y of the unemployed, rHe saw possibility indeed 61 fetal opposition > tor the policy unf® 83 such v i;MuJts were . provided:' against,, After carefully and anxiously; considering the question, he had'come do the, conclusion tpat-the details of the scheme could .be best worked out by those'possessed of an inti-! mate local knowledge,'’.and ,had /invited? J the sympathy Arid t assistance of, the . various Provincial aaJ^‘'aU-but >ohb of ‘ governments had already consented to apporfji that Assistance. Otago wala one of those,, he fejght .inform' thism that one of toe first acts of that Government was fo take steps for the erection of suitable Ojamagiu-fTfH ear, hear;) leam wjth safisfaction that day recei/ed a , telegram, * sfetipg jjhat among peri Mopgol wpre a largp nnm|>eppf agrieqltnral! feborerg, that riy. |he same there! was coming out to the Colony fdr,'Joseph Holloway, who is described a$ man of Mr name VS 8 . 8 P well known in connection with the movement which had sprung up in Great Britain - for the. amelioration..of toe- condition !ef the: agricultural laborers. 'Mr Arch was- now? -in. Canada, where he was receiving great aiterir' tion from the Governor of the PomiuioD j the object qf-hfe visit,; being to ascertaip the iriducementa presented by that cpqritry as a 1 field for immigration. He believed that Mr' Arch hadpiojb foupd it so ; suitable as he ex I pected, arid.it,. very satisfactory to learni that Mr Holloway , was now ;on his ,way tol , this Colony ,wfeh a. .viev pf seeing for liimself the inducements, it offered as a home for the; class he represented—the. very class, of which the Colony stood in need. The . Colony would have, after a 11,., tp stolid or fall.aa a. field for immigration oil its own s capahilUieß—! and it possessed enormous Ascompared with Canada, it possessed!!,an immense advantage, in, respect, of. climafe, as! human labor could be carried ohberp all thej year round, while, in Canada the must bo suspended for months.!,. !&gain, as; compared with the Australian! Colonies* New Zealand offered many advantages in respect’ of its' climate,.rits nop-Jiahility .tq periodical; disastejrß;; and its , immense sea-board - ad-{ vantages toe possession of which was desfinecu to place her in the foremost position of the Australasian group. . ’ : i