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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 60, 11 March 1874, Page 2

As showing the extent to which jam making is carried on in the neighboring colonies it is stated that one Melbourne firm alone, (Mr Tong) of Fitzroy, will turn out 150 tons this season — the staple articles of his manufacture being raspberry, black and red currant, gooseberry, cherry, and plum jams. At Mr Tong's place the manufacture of jam is carried on entirely with fruit from Tasmania. Australians, — Of all our numerous descendants, the Australians appear to resemble us the most closely. North America has been far longer colonized, . and by a more mixed race, and before our national character had completely developed into its present form. Both Canada and the United States retain, accordingly, the main outlines of resemblance; but in matters of less importance'they have acquired their own tastes and habits, which are very

dissimilar to ours. Australia has existed loog enough to be a distinct country, but not long enough to have grown out of the old likeness. There are mauy obvious pointa in which all our descendants take after us. They oaanot exist anywhere without a free and constitutional Government. They must have the right of free speech, and must be governed by equal laws, and they sire absolutely intoleraut of all contrary arrangements. Nor are these the only links still subsisting between ourselves and the many regions we hove colonised. To like and dislike the same things is the closest possible bond oi union between nations, as it is between individuals. Weapeak everywhere the same language; we carry everywhere the same general character; and everywhere alike we are addicted to the same serious pursuits, and insist upon the same conditions as necessary to a tolerable existence. To foreigners probably, we are all absolutely and iodistinguishably the same. We are more like one another than we are like any people else, ami this alone would be sufficient to decide their judgment. Tho3e, however, who are better able to form an opinion will acknowledge the correctness of the distinction we have pointed out. They will recognise a closer likeness between Englishmen and Australians than between Englishmen and the inhabitants either of Canada or of the United States, though they may, perhaps, be puzzled to give a reasou for it, or to show precisely in what particulars it is displayed. It consists, probably, in this — that the Australians resemble us not not only in the aerious business of life, but in its amusements. Our own popular tastes are curiously reproduced in our antipodes. We recognise there not only the general qualities of the Anglo-Saxon race, but, in addition to these, the special tastes of modern Englishmen; and this is not true, in anything like the same degree, of ;our kinsmen in the United States, or even in Canada. In great matters, in our laws and our language aud our religion we are much the same in every part of the globe. Such differences aa exist are manifested rather in the lesser details of everyday life, and in the answers given to the important question, in which way a national holiday is best to be enjoyed. But it is on such points as these that the closer resemblance between Englishmen and Australians most naturally and most unmißlakeably reveals itself. — The Times, Dec. 26, 1873.