THE PALL MALL GAZETTE ON NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2136, 3 November 1885, Page 2

THE PALL MALL GAZETTE ON NEW ZEALAND.

_ Among the instances of the ignorance displayed by the London newspapers about New i}ei\]and affairs the following from the Pall Mall Gazette is about the worst we liavo met with The' following statistics in regard to New Zealand in particular and Australasia generally may not be out of place. Out of £90,000,000 borrowed by New Zealand, she Ma spent £56,000,000 on railways, £2fl,o3ff?flo on public works, and nearly 10,000,000 on immigration, The railways nearly pay the interest, the telegraphs pay more than the interest, and as for the immigration loans, the immigrant pays greatly more than the interest on the sum borrowed to bring him. The customs revenue of New Zealand in 1882-53 was four times as much per head as in England, six timesaa much as in France, ten times as-ilHoias in Germany, and nearly three • times' as much as in the United States. The customs duties of New Zealand are 5 per cent, on her commerce, while in Britain they are 3j? per cent., and 4 per cent. in France. In tho United States they amount to no less than 13 per cent. The revenue of New Zealand in 1860 was £550,000; in 1883 it was £3,871,207. Apart from New Zealand the volume of trade of the Aug. tralian colonies as compared with tjs population is greater than of uny civil-, ized Stflte in the worfd. In Australia it it is £3,4 per head of the population, it is only £1(1 in England, £9 in France, £7 in Germany, and £6 in tho United States, and it is a startling ommentary on the marvellous growth of our Antipodian colonies that their commerco to-day is greater than that of tho United Kingdom at the accession of Her Majesty. A 18367 the commerce of tho United Kingdom amounted to £98,000,000, excluding, q? course, "goods in transit," In 1883 the commerce of Australasia considerably exceeded £100,000,000. These things being done in the green tree, what 'will be done in the dry ?