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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1162, 6 December 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

The "Lyttelton Times" commenting on the " haste to get rich," and the love of luxury whioh mark the later-generation of. settlers as compared with those who were the early pioneers of the colony, says: — "The fact is that large numbers of us are not content to go plodding on as the early colonists did,. suffering hardships, and subduing rugged nature by severe toil, m the hope of a moderate compe tence at the close of our lives ; we have indulged m dreams of rapidly acquired wealth, of making a fortune by lucky speculating, of gaining here by the labou? of others what an old country man only expect to acquire by a life of diligent attention to business, careful thrift, and steady, persevering industry. Men look with horror on a life m the bush, such as the early settlers had ; but expect to be solaced by comforts and luxuries they never hoped for. We shall find out some day that a country like New Zealand, rough and mountainous, with a fine climate, but by no means an extraordinarily fertile soil, can only be made rich and prosperous by the practice of those old-fashioned virtues which are but little regarded by some amongst us.