A SILVER LINING TO EVERT CLOUD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 217, 13 September 1871, Page 4

A SILVER LINING TO EVERT CLOUD.

To thsj^Edetob of thb Nblsojt Evening Maiv. .Sib,t— L fully believe there is a silver lining, to the cloud, now hapging over this Colony ."" I am a settler and I believe the settlers or farmers constitute the true basis of this fine country, but it does not appear that those in authority think so, or they would give their first attention to the country andrnpt the towns ; they would develops the land resources, and the towns would soon benefit. In the absence of manufactures of -any importance, we 'are a thoroughly pastoral body. As settlers, we; are, [properly, of every trade, realizing the old sayiDg, that any one may be a farmer. Now we see a first evidence of good in the cloud. Many who were farmers are' turning thieir attention to their old trades^ and all around' we eeeVcropping up incipient manufactures; ■ new industries they are -called, results of the cloudjl: sayvt . : Another -feature* rStill-: a result of the . cloud, is • ;Combioation amongst; the farmers in -tlje , shape -of Farmers' clubs, resulting. in the action of the Waiinea Cluß in ; taking/ steps to ma |£^^^^^' If lV $%K$ gr^iW^wlwn'.'htfp^'.whictt X Hear -they can, and then cdraplete'theiti arrangements by^ brewing^ the|^b^n : ]malt and hop beer ; start a house i in^iHe^city/ret^t 1 be. known ■. ,tnat

there is a silver lining to the clond,~dark though it now is. A few words jon the cloud now so dull upon our butter, bacon* and cheese trade; depend upou'it, good will come out of it, but it must find/ a level, low tHough it is. Butter once came to England, and until we have manufactures it must be'aftsuch a quality and price that it can go home and be sold. I see lhat Australia and Canterbury are aware of this, and are sending home large quantities ; the first realised st)s, but the last 945, and: so it will be proved a way will be found to send good butter home andrbririg ready money out again. ' The process "is going on, it may ruin many, but ifFwill be the' making of the colony bye and bye, : and so make it clear to all. there was a silver lining to that part of the cloud. In the meat trade, the process began earlier, and see the consequence "everywhere; whether in Australia or here, where boiling-down 'or meat- preserving has been started there is a market that can be relied on. I was much struck by what I saw in your paper a short time since that attention was directed in some part of Australia to drying the waste of the boiling-down houses for artificial manures; herein I believe is a fertile Isource of profit, "as guano of good quality is more scarce every year and more artificial manures are being used. I think you will allow that some of the precious metal has been found in the meat cloud. It is now allowed throughout the. world that companies through the -system of working together with large capital can produce a better article at a lower price than the private grower; this cloud is bringing us to them as already meat-preserving or boiling-down companies are common; and butter and cheese factories must be so ere long. Why, sir, as, no doubt you know, they are now in England obliged to start them to compete with the fine cheese and butter sent "by American factories,""and so with bacon. Nelson must either have a company or firm to compete, with McConnal and Co., of Canterbury, or go to leeward as the people say; bacon cured right may be sent all over the world, and the cloud will be darker, blacker, and heavier, till it brings this result about; (hen its silver lining will be seen. . '. Low prices indeed carry their own cure, wages will come down with them, till, between their united pressure, manufactures will spring up like "mushrooms, and then, and not till then, will we have solid prosperity. I could write much more on this same subject >but < I think I .have said, enough for once. \ •■•'.. --- - I am, &c, ' ■•';.".; Hopeful.