NEW AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4935, 26 January 1895, Page 3

NEW AUSTRALIA.

Writing to the Buenos Ayrcs Standard, Mr P. J. Macnaraara, of Rosario, says : New Australia—so far as tbe ox. pcrimeut has gone—is tbo biggest failure on record. Paraguay, of all countries in the world, is the most unsuitable for Australians or other English-speaking people to settle in with any hope of doing well. The climate is almost unbearably hot; insects devour most of tho crops; it is outside the margin of cultivation economically, being isolated from the world's markets, Politically, socially' and morally it is behind the age; the spirit of progress seems dead in it. Tho6o who love primeval solitude and wish to cut themselves completely off from modem civilizacan certainly be accommodated in Paraguay; but it is deficient in nearly all that makos life worth livI ing to the ordinarily-constituted in[dividual, and its selection for tbe I New Australia experiment was fatal to that enterprise from the start. Neither is New Australia selfsupporting, as stated. The original capital was wasted by mismanagement and extravagance,while Lane, was ruler, and only by a financial miracle can it beplaced on abound footing again. The colonists have had to soil their few fat cattle to buy I and should tlwjr props fail or

bo destroyed b) lociißts this year, thoir condition will be deplorable in the extreme. They are making a brave struggle, it is true, against heavy odds, and for their own sakes it is to be hoped they may be enabled to pull through, But when statements are published whiohmay have the effect, if uncontradicted, of caus-1 ing others to throw in their lot with! a cause which is on Lib last legs I (through no fault of tlioso utill on! the New Australia sottlemont) it is time to raise a warning voice to pre- j vent frosli victims being added to I the already sufficiently extensive list. ] Knowing the true history of tho movement and the present critical position of the settlements, I consider it my duty to mako known the facts through your columns. i

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TheWauganuiHerald says:—Practically speaking, prohibitum reigus su- , preino throughout llie up-river district from Upokoiignro ri«ht on to Kcrioi. That is to say, there is not one single licensed house belwecu the two places named, and yet the consumption of liquor on a very large scale, goes on unchecked, and sly grog-selling proves a decided all-roundcurse to those residing in the up-river settlements, and indeed to many whose business or pleasure it is to travel backwards or forward. Fifteen shillings is the modest price asked for a bottle of whisky to the Maoris, and 10s to the Europeans, aud the vile stuff known by that namc,even at these extortionate rates, linds ready consumers. Whatever the state of the liquor is before it reaches the hands of the upriver dispenser is not known, but it has been an open secret that in "doctoring " it one bottle is very easily made into three! and at 15s per bottle, too!"