The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1888. The Shadow Before.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2994, 4 September 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1888. The Shadow Before.

The annual reports of the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce are 1 usually sflinewhat. dreary reading i bristling as is their wont 'with statistics and as full of figures as an egg : of meat. A recent' report of this | kind from Canterbury is, however, [ somewhat remarkable for the cheery , tone in which jt speaks of f])ijigs- m general, ai)d, thjs from'a part of the Colony where. depression has. been folt intensely, an'i'.wjisre its'signs still linger, is remarkable, jhe report is an official .summing .up of the past and future prospects of our leading produots.and- industries, and, if it is at all reliable, the good time coining cannot be .very far away. It tells us that the wool outlook is a good one, [Jiat already we may consider there is air jji\ s round advance on last year of a penny pe) lb, j which means a total of £805,000 of extra pocket money for our wool growers. ThjD satisfactory progress of tho frozen mfiatind.u.stryis.duly recorded. Next year it is expected oyer a. million of.carcases,."' a thousand thousand of our sheep," are expected to be sent to • England in place of the hundred thousand whip)) was our return three years ago, 'We are told that monoy f,i plentiful for'good securities, and that in Canterbury good agricultural land Is realising' tab values,.: The prices ofwheat and outs, ioo, ?re nicking up, with almost a certainty of there is development in il;s 'butter and cheese industries, and turning to mineral'products 'm pre : 're- ! minded that the gold and -coal industries show signs of revival. We are informed by the report that our gold monoy so far has reached ihe handsome' sum of £44,000,000, bdj, (his is only the sample of the untold wealiji ihaj has yet to be unearthed, If during' our next -half ■ century of history we put our gold yield down at whn'l travel' beyojo d .the calculations a jf,. Jiartl headed, injnjng .experts.! ipjsperity ; ai'eshowerednpbn"us"in'thisyep'oft i with iuoh meteoric rapidity .that" we ; feegjn almost ,to fear that' the revival ' will be upon, us before we are.ready ' for ; it/ Tl\e and- .(lie baker ■ will shortly bo , nrid.tlie grocer andihe.drajer already ■ clahn : ii]preases'%der |he ; ses?|ai'iff..' i tboj tlwfflucfcjj :;%s\! :

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