The Evening Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1879.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 887, 18 February 1879, Page 2

The Evening Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1879.

A »»•* 'luanii company has sprung into existence: not. for the aggrandisement of it* shtuvholders. but t\>r tho mutual tutvajilSiMjs of tls« Old Country and tlui Colony, Great fS'ritam is much* in tho siwno position as a man would bo who rotatnt'd tho vestments of a child. There uiig&t St* room to? all Iter population and few spare, but tho land is in tIW hands of a few whoso luxurious HM>cte» of life render it 'Uwub'ssavy that numerous broad auras . should no* reserved for their sote use. The \p>pill»tHm of Gtvmt Britain is ** swarmnyt." , Y«>mwwy» whvsh ar« tht) tfitvwand; siiww »( ottun" cuttatries—which have helped Francis, tho rather day prosfcratwd %jr war, to again proudly raise her luhul—witt being elbowed t»t*t. IE they would art becomti slaves—indued, if they would n«t contintio in a state of slavery.. for tliny htvvw U>ng tabovod to cloths their task-masters in purple and fine linen, and havo piul»»(i up ish« crumb* that have fallon from fch«ir tables—th«y must leave behind, th«na the toad of their birth; and do wtiat many «f tli«ir fcruthrtsa have done before them umkr the more trying siruumstanc«B of ptoneeuang—-osaufc in eotonisaSinn. These,. cuut those wtuam they wouM | induce- to follow th»«i>—genuifi* agrooH- \ tural laborers—ar# 6&** men we raw{uire ; to uuuupy our \snxi» r if we require j anybody at all'. - But we fcavo' never yt't buun in a position to o3*s thaiu any I

\ indaeemerits to. emigrate. Much has been [written ttpot* the advantages, that New ! Zealand has presented to the small i capitalists »>f the Old Country : bat what leruuww had they when capitalists on ! th«- spot—either small or targe | vainly sought to* aennire land for tegititnnttf settlement., The same was a tco tottwatw one: Coo maca finessing ra : teqeured in order to checkmate the i pro!Mstaaal, gentlemanly, and highptineiptad men, who seemed to labor mufer th* hailadnatioti that New Zealand ;wa» created aotdry for them, »nd t* lo I process of co lo negation and Colonial progress I wet* arrested. Bat the present Govern- | merit hare siteseeded in accomplishing what n»' other f Joiremtnent had the daring to attempt* They have inaugurated a ! new statu of things that wtfl- *HWrd t«> ■ every man a chance of setpptring land. •■The toss of the past etuiiiot ta : retrieved, but a simitar to** in ! future may be averted by j ment's action in regard to eotontat lands. Whet* the- estates ire the North which the | government ace now ae.t'|Utring art 1 put I into the market they wilt rind ready sale : i but it will bo some- time before these ! estates iwra available; and even if they ; were available now, they wotdd soon he(coma absorbed, ami eotonists woutd cry I (or more.. It is well, then, that, in the interim, several hrge estates are tr* he i submitted to sate in blocks t*> suit purchasers.. There are the Ktderstte and | Totiw* in this district.and several estates in tFi.e Southland district, beside* numerous targe estates, which- are now advertised, |an<l»thers which wilt shortly be pat into ■the market. The Australian and New | Zealand Land Company's estates atone, '! the whole of which it is intended to sett i within the next six yesrs or so, wontd ; support a population worthy of Itself to he ■ called and a nation ; and, yet. so- great is ; thw demand for land - at prices tl'at wilt , enaMe t'ulf.iyators to realise something jinore than interest on purchase money--- ] that the onty result of the sate of these i estates in smalt and mudknat*! stxed h»td- ! iwjPr would IW to. ranch tfw U*/h'ijy i and ' the demand for tand woutd In- as great as though it had never b«ett sold. «>n the settlement of the tand depends the substantial progress of the Colony. Wel wish prosperity to the New Zealand Agricultural Company, and U> alt whose object it is to bring about such a 'blessed result. A perns;*! of the names of the promoters gives u» SM.ritldeuce that the eompany wilt be worked with, the object of promotiny the of the f.'ntony in whi«h the promoters l«wn j, twL,'e stake, and that is att ttu»c is to be di-'ivred. Tfie- aei(wireinent of tarsie estates for the o.trpo««< of them np and seltinu' them by public artutton wilt be the business of the company. The idea is a good one. Not only will larico traets of land: be opened up-to settlement t'»y this niean* would otherwise remain closed for years, i.sifc from the business taet and experience of ciwy rn whose hands the conduct of the ("rop*H» will be left, we have every reason to. betieVw they witl Ih» i.'peneil up advautageonsty ; atui tfj'jt it willbw r»isscbte to sett at such priees as will meet with ready sale to nnrehasers who will! be abl« to make souiethtnjc more ; thau- a tivirwr ont of their pnrehases.