MADAGASCAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 18 June 1883, Page 2

MADAGASCAR.

Tlie/LotidoiivStandai'c!'; says : \~", A letter from our special.: correspondent iin A!adagascar gives^yncture': of ; the iiidustiial.resoureeso^islaiid;\Yhicli : liicvcliiintsanil['capitalists;, tlianXfortilb in : ; suggestion:; to; .oiir .statosuiGi>;;. k land;pf suchjproniisfl'ouglit to -n ttraci settlement. On tho vast; mid uufcouchctl store of; niiriiu'al weaUh ;which : fircs the imagination a'nd;:bxcites v the'iwpes of the Creoles.pf Eeiiiiion our correspon-, dent, does; not ;caVe-i'to ; .d'jyejl. ."■Sugar-planting-'wiis -lirst. attempted on 'a :serious scald.four , : .ycara- ; ago,;and; al-' read)' the estates yiel'd.anuiiul;;,pronts' jof 15,'20, and 30 -per- Mew, j.suvely, isaii opting; ;lbr Britiiilitapitalists, who look'wiih all bnt^deS^air-' ing finxiqty tbrv. safe: fialcW : myestr inont. .there > is; noilimit tp thearca : i he; whicli,pur. :coi;res[)on'dent';' yibi(sl,' : iiiuj' which lip d&scrib'es wjth' : siich : ;.e'ijthusi:; the western coaSt;laiid 'sdttle; meat.'; and si(jc;''js; a similar belfc\frqiii*ii(J'to t lo miiQs,llj>'rQ E i t i tiud several Jiinulreds' in- lengtli;t r V :liy inore.thau ono raspect the isjpji .enjoys/ advantages denied to othersugar-' prq(luqing climes. The deep rich virgin loam form's an'ideal soil. /The cyclones, whk'h devastate the crops in the islands to the .west ; neve;-tonch-Madagascar,. TJie rainfall js so abundant and so certain that- no ; artificial iriugatiofl la necessary. V- fljerefare all t)ies£ilj»g3 to lill tlje : mind of tl|o planterwith pleasant anticipation; and further, the scenery is of a kiad'to sootho jtiicl delight tho eye,"" 'S^