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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 927, 19 March 1881, Page 5

The population of the United States has grown 11,500,000 in ten years, and as the London Times remarks : —These people are not a poor, indigent and untaught mass, such as would be produced in any European State by so great and rapid Accessions to population. They are well-fed, well-clothed, well-to-do, and, as a rule, well-educated. Mr. T- K. Dow, representative of the Melbourne Leader, and who is making a tour through New Zealand to report upon the agricultural, pastoral, and producing capabilities of the Colony, has arrived in this city, says the N.Z. Times. He speaks highly of the grain-pro-ducing districts in South Canterbury, and especially of the Oama.ru country, which equals anything he has seen in his travels, and he is generally well pleased with his experiences, which, in many respects, offers a very favorable contrast to those in the agricultural districts of Victoria. On his way North, he will probably go to Auckland by wav of the Wairarapa district, Woodville, Waipawa, and Napier, and thence through the north-eastern and northern, districts, and return to Wellington via the West Coast We hope he will receive guidance and information as he goes along, for his reports, when published in the influential journal he represents, will not fail to exercise a very beneficial influence in making this Colony better known to Australians, and, indeed, among a very much wider circle of readers.