The Feilding Star. THURSDAY. AUGUSTS, 1883. Prosperity.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 28, 9 August 1883, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY. AUGUSTS, 1883. Prosperity.

We believe that the coming su^ukiand autumn will witness a condition of prosperity in t c Colouy that has never been equalled in its past history. I The discovery of new oold fields and the continued development ot the old ? ones, assisted as miners now are, by L many new and improved methods for 1 the extraction of the gold cheaply ' from the wash or quartz, will add I largely to the productions. It can also , be assumed with confidence that a large number of oid New Zealand I gold miners may be expected to return • to the Colony, attracted by the prospect of good gold, and a desire to i again partake of the many facili'ies ' offered for obtaining- a good livelihood in a country blessed with the finest • climate iv the world — where t.tiere is seldom or never a drought sufficient to delay mining operations for a week. he frozen meat trade, which is yet in its iufaucy, will be developed imo stouter proportions, and the money returns to the stock- growers and coinf panics will exceed even their most sanguineexpectations, provided always that all slovenly and careless work in preparing the carcasses is guarded • against, and every preventable aeci- ■ dent or mishap on shipboard forestalled. Cheese and butter factor ies are rapidly growing- in favor tv ■ mauy parts of the country itistricti where the farmers and settlers aro intellig-ent, industrious, and endeavoring to keep pace with the ago, and where they are keenly alive to the benefhs they will tbem-elves derive from this industry as well as everyone • surrounding- them ; where there are people who will not deprive themselves of a good rather than see v ? neighbor share it ; where the mere JO " bucolic cabbage has peri died from ' the blight of indifference, and it.- - "place knows it no more " The les- ' son the farmers got last year when they lost at least twenty per cent of their crops by sheer laziness, will nobe iorgotteu by many ot them Unwonted energy will be shown and pre- - cautions taken to prevent a siu ilar ' disastrous termination to that harvest which in the beginning of the season, promised to be the best the Colony ever saw. Unhappily there are some to whom .experience teaches nothing. Let us hope these will prove a small minority. The discovery oi diamonds •n Canterbury will give that favored j province another push forward in the march ot progress, and will be a means ot attracting numbers of people from l - the Old Country to its shores. 'There is no part or the colony that is not . now the subject ot some special development. The Auckland, Otago, Westland, Canterbury, and even Wellington gold fields are a?l unmistakably prosperous. Wherever the fiozen meat trade ramifications have exten ied, new life in stock raising has 1 been infused. New industries in the t direction of woollen factories and mea' preserving are working profitably, for ! i ready market for their produce found in other parts of the world, and the • iemand is daily increasing. On every _ >jde new capital is being created . md put. in circulation. All that •3 wanted is an ii flux of agricultural iborersi with their wives and families There is plenty of work and g<-od .viiov*s for as many as like to come „ tt) bll-iueSS people, HO'TI ' .hw, are who arc making- a cry

"i -iurkjies. in Mm. their uwji peculiar »mmls. The wi-e know that j'isf. as much el -thing- is wnrti and iicr.osvjir.o-. consumed n«-w >-> there has over been in the Oniony, but there is less waste in other directions, and the im-ney 'hat i> bei' __;■ saved now will always i be a tact if in ihe prosperity of liie future.