Prospects of the future.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1726, 5 June 1886, Page 2

Prospects of the future.

[Correspondent of flawera Star.]

I notice that the 8.8. Wellington is to leave Auckland on the 25th inst, circumstances permitting, saloon fare, £16; steerage, £12; The steamer will sail direct for Cambridge Gulf. Horses there are necessary, but cannot be had for love or money. Inteuding prospectors must therefore take one with them. A capital market for a few hundreds of our spare screws. Come now, there's a tip for some speculator thirsting to know how to make money. The climate is spoken of as being healthy, and grass iv many parts plentiful all the year round. Yes, but what about the parts where there is no water, where sand is plentiful. The white ants eat any kind of wood ; iron is the only safe material of which to build houses, alligators, snakes, and other natives of the soil tend to make things lively. Yet what, won't men do for gold ? ' So long as the pros* pects improve so will men rush there, and ere long the lonely plains and deserts will throb under the moving mass of people who will be impelled through the parching thirst for gold. Bali 1 I'd sooner stay at home and send thein i pur. butter and honey, our beef, our mli'^tpn, and our Murphies ; yes stay at homo m the old hum drum style for a time, and then m due course our turn for the good times will come. We're not always going to have it dull. Oh no, when our farmers have got tired of sitting down and seeing things drift, and mortgages and overdrafts threatening to overwhelm them ; then they will make a move and go m for factories of various kinds. Then a war; forbid that I should wish for a war, but if war must need come, then give us a good beef -eating thumper just now, a wool consuming one too would not go amiss. Greece tried to made a blaze, but maybe she ran short of tallow. I hear Uole is turning out a good sample. Hurry up Cole, and send her along a cask or two, the chance of a row is smouldering away for want of something !