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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1671, 30 March 1886, Page 2

i/lr Ffoiidej m Oe«ana, says :■*-" Tht^ English rice shonld'nbt coma to N«w Zealand 1 to rene^the towtf! life. Wliich the^ leave ; behiid them with a hand-to-mouth* suVsisteri^^ earners of vragos ,j ori improved conditions;" T.hey.•: will , never grQw ;i inttf fta'-:;new^natiw!ri(tfiuß., They will grow-into a nation when they are/ settled m their houses "and ffcg&hojds, like their forefathers- who* drew^ibbw] at Agincourt, or trailed -pike m the wars of 'thai wealth j: when' they oVn acres, raise their own crops 1, breed' their own sheep and cattlo, and live out tlieir days with'thefr children and grandchildren around them.. Fino:tnen ,and fine women are not to be reared m tovyns, amang tarerns. and: theatres- and idle of \ pplitics, • They are ]. nature'sj own conditions: under the free air of heaven, on.thegreon- ear^fe/amidst |the; woads and waters, and,in" the* whble-' •some' occupation of cultixating v the. soil. l*-, .i--.-v,;>i. ;^:. ' ' '^r- 11 •Paris'isso attractive' because! it! appears^eveTy^inornHig with<-a clean fice. 'The Btreet*^fe'thorougKly -swept,- and even Waßhed' when they /.want it. IThfj house-fronts.are periodically scraped or >Bcqured,r >under ? heayy.j peiialtieß ; for necie'et.* The inhabitants * accordingjly^are, ;e,n v tir;ely. i ;free.; frojm,that.ppcu liar form^pf depressibn which ought to te'knowri as'tondoiv melancholia, though lit has not yet found its place! m ithe