NEW ZEALAND’S FUTURE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 243, 19 July 1872, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND’S FUTURE.

Mr M’Gillivray, .v1.11.R. for Riverton, in addiessing his constituents a few days ago is reported to have spoken as follows: " He had been in various colonies of tho Empire, and knew something of their resources, aud of this country as well. He thought there was nothing to prevent the colony rising to a high pitch of prosperity. In Canada he had setn great prosperity people coining in thousands, aud business prospering—aud yet in that country there was not a single acre of clear land, and there were five mouths of the most rigorous winter, during which a blade of grass was never seen. Immigration was the grand secret. Without & very large and steady influx of immigrants, the scheme on which our Government had entered must be attended with ruinous consequences. It was desirable to import population of the right kind, ca. ital as well as labour; the capital would employ the labour, the labourer would by-ami-by become a land owner, and an employer of labour himself, and evervoß would feci the effects of the increas' local activity.”