FAILURE OF THE COLONIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2607, 13 January 1894, Page 4

FAILURE OF THE COLONIES.

London, Jan. 9

In a paper before the Colonial Institute, Miss Shaw, who recently travelled through the Australasian colonies on behalf of The Times, referred to temperate and tropical Australia as two continents, the former being defined to represent the democratic and the latter the aristocratic forces of life. In commerce, labor and politics the two divisions were of necessity different. The tropical portion of the colony must develop through service of labor, and then there would be no limit to the production of wealth. The general wealth of the continent was prodigious, and it seemed destined to be a fruitful mother of wealth. She was sanguine as to the results of the new schemes for settlement of the land and, with the Government assistance these settlements would probably attract the most intelligent workmen in England. .The Radical and Democratic ideal and much of the mature Liberal thought in Australia favored separation from the Mother Country, but a much stronger collective body of opinion favored the retention of the Imperial tie. The Agents-General thanked Miss Shaw for the important service she had rendered to the colonies by her sympathetic paper. During the discussion which followed Mr Webster dealt on the necessity for encouraging immigration. Mr Sandford Fleming spoke of the success which had attended Canadian Minister Bo well’s visit to Australia, and the goodwill shown to him.