BETTER TIMES APPROACHING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 13, 13 June 1885, Page 2

BETTER TIMES APPROACHING.

■, ' ■ - " ■'. ■ ».. ') '.. ■■ ■■:..•■ . ,\ A writer m a Wellington paper ■•• has the following: — IV ew Zealand' has outgrown the undesirable reputttion she possessed but a. few. .years ago of being the Prodigal of the Australasian group. Ask any capable and careful observer who has recently visited England, and he will say that it is no longer the fashion to; harp upon New Zealand's huge and disproportionate indebtedness. A great change has come over English opinion m this respect even during the last two years, and now it is customary to speak of this colony, of her undertakings, and even of her. large borrowing, with marked respect, if not with warm admiration. People do not know much about New Zealand, but they can understand what it means — say, for in-, stance — two-and-a-half miles of rail/ way to every thousand persons, and;* to send Home some thirty thousand carcases of frozen mutton, every, 1 month- These are practical testsv and there are many of which Nevr/ Zealand can well stand the application. Let us hope, then, that we have hoard the last of these dreary dirge-like wailings about dire ruin hanging over us. The colony has been depressed for a time, it is true, but the clouds are rapidly clearing away, and there is a bright and sunny future ahead.