The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1882. THE FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 25 April 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1882. THE FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND.

A correspondent of a Wanganui paper writing from an up-country town in New South Wales, gives the following graphic description of its fervid summer heat, The writer says, /'We have had a fearful time of it this supper with the„heat, and although it i.S breaking up there js no rain and no appearance of any, TJie cqurjitry everywhere J have been is as bai;e -.ojf grass as'tjiepaparl W noy writing upon,and the sufferings of spttjers and stock are terrible. Not 20 miles from here men are kept continually burning in order to purify the atmosphere from the horrid stench arising therefrom sje pai'cases of sheep which have died from f ant pf sustenance, or have been fitted >n the mud of tlie almost dry water holes and tanks, waiting ilje strength to extricate themselves;' after having gone in, in tho vain effort to get a drink. You in New Zealand have no conception of it, nor have we in the towns, but for reports that are constantly arriving of this ant) that one losing so many hundreds or thousands of sheep, as the case may be, unless a trip into the country be undertaken, when the truth bursts upon the gazer in all its naked horror. What would I not give to be able to sell out at any? thing like a fair price and take, unto myself wings'for a cooler climate," Contrasting the climate of New Zealand with'that of its neighbors in the Southern Seas, it is impossible not to

be struck with the immense' advantages with which Nature has endowed 1 the land in which we live. Still, with j aliumanly speaking perfect cliuiate, we ( have our little troubles, but they, are not of the serious character,: of the one which is described above. It is "true . that we have'rebel Maoris,: debt, scab, > rabbits, and Sir George Gjiey to , hinder üb, but these■ drawbacks are essentially temporary in their nature; , they are infantile ailments which may retard but, cannot stop our growth. Theburningscorching heats of the great Australian Continent are on. the other hand permanent, inevitable, and insurmountable barriers to tlie settlement of a large European population, Compared with New Zealand its colonies, vast though they may be and capabje of being expanded to a still greater extent, are heavily handicapped, Year by year as this Britain of the South grows up and furnishes, it will creep closer to their heels, and within a generation it must, in density of population and wealth, give them a lead. Our future being thus assured, is it well to exhaust ourselves too much in the race, to strain for a too rapid development, or to sacrifice the present to an ideal future. We must, as British colonists,' keep moving, but there need be no forcing process applied such as that which was resorted to in theYogelian era when an inferior population was pitchforked into the country regardless of cost, and an indiscriminate construction of- bogus railways was initiated. It should be enough for us rather to. settle the people now amongst us; towed them as it were to the land. The population now on our shores which we have taken for better or worse has a first claim on our sympathies and efforts. We shall not suffer if we let the future to a certain extent take care of itself, , j and endeavor to promote the comfort and prosperity of ourselves and our neighbors. New.blood must be filtered in year by year, but let us see that none but good healthy blood is added. Let other colonies outbid us for,inferior labor in the Home market! We are better without it. We can afford to wait until such time as we may obtain the best men both physically and morally that are obtainable, and when we cannot bide our time let us give a high price for the best article, 1 Our present need is comparative political rest and good administration. If we try by forced marches to reach a speculative stage of development we shall lose in the long run more than we . shall gain.