Ar Australian Wiltcr on New Zealand.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 416, 2 November 1889, Page 3

Ar Australian Wiltcr on New Zealand.

Whiting in the Melbourne Argus with reference bo New Zealand and the frozen meat trade, " Teiemachus " says ;^-" NewZealand 13 pushing all that trade for us," or rather for herself. In the first six months' of this year she shipped 550,482 carcases of lamb and mutton, Australia coming after with the very mean total of 14,616. And is she deriving any benefit from this trade 1 We find an answer again in our staid and sober commercial columns. ' The statements made by the Fresident of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce at the annual [ meeting, held on the 30th August, are of a remarkable as illustrating tlio great expansion of the export trade of New Zealand during the last year. Erevybhivg produced in NtioZealand iiatjvevciU in. eager demand in the tooild's markets.' Note well that italicised passage, for it is very conclusive as to the non existence of any accursed prejudice against New Zealand poods. Apd because of this absence of prejudice — because, indeed, of the keen appreciation of New Zealand produce in the 'world's markets,' the Bn'tain of the South is rising now like a convalescent youth from a long sickness. How sick she was, they know best who are beet versed in her history. Of all the colonies she is the only one : who 4 has, suffered anything like that fiery baptism^and sbienuaus welding of which the poet speaks. Her war debt would have strangled any Australian province* Her piovinuial system might well have bred a financial ancemia. The quackeries of her nolioician?, her railway and land booms and collapses seemed to have In ought her to such a condition that it was almost expected she would come over to Australia saying ' Help me of your greatness and mercy, and for the sake of our sisterhood. 1 But her people were of the wrong stuff for giving way, and tempered in the wrong climate. They fhook off the parasites and the blood-suckers, they re iected % the quackeries and the nostrums, they went out instead to the ' world's market?,' and it well may be said they have won, and not for themselves alone, but for all Australasia. They are coming to us now M'ith a princely invitation. Our commercial record, thoysay, speaks for our prosperity.. Ccme and see all that nature has bestowed on us ; come and look on the noble countenance of our land, our more than tropic beauty, our more chan Alpine splendour. And we shall doubtless accept the invitation, and voyage acros3 to the little, island by thousands and tens of thousands. And haply we may return convinced that unless we mend our ways and act uo a little bef ter to the true instincts of our race, New Zealand may yet be to Australia as Britain to Europe, the crown, if not the head, of the body, which once regarded it as an excrescence, or an appendage rather to be endured than desired."