A PROPHECY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 24 May 1872, Page 6

A PROPHECY.

The 'Thames G-uardian' says:— "The one million twelve hundred thousand pounds which was to have done so much for us has all been expended, and where are the railways, and where are the immigrants that were to have arrived? In the Province of Auckland there is not a mile of Governmental railway open for : traffic, and the few immigrants that have' been imported do not appear of the class ' likely to benefit themselves or the Colony. It is even said that it is in contemplation' to import Chinese labor for the cheap construction of the contemplated works. That this movement will'be a most unpopular one there can be no doubt whatever, and action has already been taken to oppose the, movement. We feel sure that, whether the immigrants be Chinese, or Scandinavian, or British, or American, who are induced to come here under the inducements held out'by the agent''m London, that when the present loans are exhausted they will find no attraction to stay here, but will take themselves off tofresh fields and where taxation is less and land more accessible. • • . From a careful

perusal of the returns before us, we can come to no other, conclusion than that, if the Civil Service is not very soon considerably curtailed, and expenditure reduced, this fine Colony will soon drift into hopeless bankruptcy, and.be deserted by the majority of its already very scanty population."

The Weong Roai>.—« Come back,'sir; that's not the right road," said a nobleman to a Scotch trespasser on his park. "Do ye ken whaur I'm gaun?" said the offender. " JNo," replied his lordship. ." Well, hoo- the de'il do ye ken whether this be the richt road or no ?"