ADVANCE NEW ZEALAND.
An Interesting Report.
Messrs H. Mats»n & Co, of Christchurch, in their annual summary of " things in general" say :—lß9l has been given up hy the doctors. The world-worn disease of old age, is pronounced as incurable, and the eventful twelve months is shortening breath with a rapidity which the most skilful and learned cannot stay. There are many virtues aud abuses to he recalled over the currency of the period under notice. We have had a political eruption, a turning out of the old and the replacement by the new. We have had an alteration in the incidence of taxation. We have had people giving ourcountry buckvtsfut of evil report. Whilo a few have endeavoured to hold our the hand of friendship " unpoisoned " by malice or party spirit, we have had an " advent of literary jackals who annually visit the antipodes, and write bunkum upon our country and its people." We have had the best lambing throughout the length and breadth of the land ever recorded. We have had the best wool clip in New Zealand known for years; that is, the brightest and most strong clean staple wool ever garnered. We have had a wonderful open season. We have a vast area of land under corn. We have the majority of farmers rising early in the morning with the lark, and warbling the glories ot Canterbury in the musical tones of the thrush. We have the ever effervescent biped, who swears that under proper supervision our butter and cheese will shortly pay off our national debt. We have experienced the conversion of the Australian press in our favour. We have oaused tbe cessation of defamatory articles in antagonistic journals. We have had our worst enemies who used to blaspheme now turned out of our colony. We have had a protrayalof the powers of productiveness so fully exemplified as to cause our dear little country to shine out in brilliant resplendency, and take its place amongst the nations and assert its prerogative as one of the highest gems which glorify the crown of the " whitest woman in the world." We have our Chamber of Commerce meeting all sorts and conditions of men. We have its President reoognising the fact that agricultural and pastoral pursuits as well as those of the mechanical classes are worthy of the extension of the hand of friendship, and in fact have so welcomed "other bodies " as partners in an "Advising Board" to promote the proper representation of New Zealand at the "Great World's Show in Chicago." We have had our great show, as is the usual custom, of live and dead stock. We have had our worthy and enlightened President of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, stauding up for the Society which he most energetically represents, giving tne Wellington rags a dab in the eye. Strange city that, strange people—some good some bad—but for years it has always been pointed at as the residence, "journalistically speaking," of the descendants of Anania3 and Sapphira. We are solemnly told that the whole cause is flatulency, created by the constant winds. We feel sorry that such an evil eye should be upon that oity, and trust 1892- will find her differently disposed toward* her neighbours. We have bad all round a very good year, but it might have been better, and we feel eonvmeed 1892 will so prove itself in prosperity. We have had a change in the Agent Generalship. We recognise in " our young New Zealander" a champion for our country, and when put to the test will prove to foes " a foeman worthy of their steel." We have with great regret received the resignation of our Governor, and without in any way appsaring fulsome, " for we hate toadyism," we recognise the high rule of the road, "and admire authority when well administered." As colonists we fully recognise the British Constitution, and would be tound were it necessary, stripped to the waist in defence of the Empire, for the more links and the tighter the unity and friendship can be made —the more certain our children will live and die in peace, We fully recognise at the same time that a Governor has a great responsibility ; he has the power of making or marring the good that he was sent to accomplish. Intelligence and man- ; nerism are great, essentially. Taot and the attributes of an " English | gentleman " are virtues highly valued by the young .New Zealander, who always recognises that the wealth, peace and happiness of New Zealand is assured so long as the old and young stiok together. We most dis--1 tinctly acknowledge this, and although | we regret the early departure of a real English Earl and his consort '. from our shores, may we hope that ' some man will be appointed who will > follow in their footsteps, and be able, as they evidently do, to understand that every man and woman has an equal right in the good government and rule over the country in which they live.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3997, 24 December 1891, Page 2
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835ADVANCE NEW ZEALAND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3997, 24 December 1891, Page 2
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