A SAD PICTURE,

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1895, 22 January 1885, Page 3

A SAD PICTURE,

Tho author of the recent publication • " Tho Redistribution of Parliamentary Seata", in a letter to ono of'his relatives A Sy<hey, by a reren't mail from England, '■ Ms 'descants (aayl 1 ' Town and Country)" , .on.tlie greftt _diStlres3' existing in $9 Old y v6uritry : stdghatioii of trade and •; malfea-- everybody- - uneasy; ■ and' ■■ many investors expect to receive some blow winch will diminish their invested funds; ; jior do they seij any revival. po»3iblo fot. another two years. 'The - iosses of'.tbo farmers and gentry through the, very .low price of tlie corn and tne iltle djsetiee have told lamentably on the' ■spending power of the country,-probably itaj&the extent of thirty millions sterling at least; ahd as long as. foreign produce . >'admitted ih competition free of duties " thiß depresßiort jiiust continue,-.'andov.r 90«ntrpiien starve. The working men . . who sufer most are slowly waking up to < the fact'tlwt unreciprocal free trade is becurse. But do as they will, it that agriculture in Englar d V;Can nlver'thrive again, aiid must reflc-r its depression on our home trade, whit li is over two-thirds of the whole. Distres now reckons its million or two of victim:

I «nd will increase with a hard winter t which is looked for. If we can ward oi: riot and destruction, it will bo by tl. good senao of th? sufferers out of wor!, for it is, doubtful whether private aiv parochial aid can overtake one-half of tk misery foreseen."