"A few words may be devoted to the attractions which the Colony offers to residents in the United Kingdom, to make it their future home. There is a class people with means of their own who live an aimless life in small towns, watering places, and other resorts, to whom a change to a country with

A Temperate Climate, Fine Scenery.

and the means to make pleasant homes, graced, with agreeable society ought to be acceptable. Their incomes will further, for the cost of living is cheaper, and the demands of fashion are less tyrannical. They will also find good public schools, with fair prospects of establishing their children when they have finished their education, whilst amusements of the usual varied character will be open to them, they will also in most cases be able to occupy a portion of their time by taking an interest in local or public affairs.

Elbow Room.

"There is a wonderful difference between life in an old country where every groove is stuffed to repletion, and where competition is hut another name for a struggle of the survival of the fittest, and the quiet absorption into the life of a new country which continues day by day to grow and develop fresh features. The kind of people to whom we refer, well educated and cultured and possessed of fixed incomes, are already denoted in the population, of New Zealand, and their number bids fair considerably increase.

English Farmers.

"Something may be said of another class of people who, devoting themselves to farming pursuits in the United Kingdom, have few, if any, prospects of improving their position. They cannot hope to be freeholders in England, but they may become owners of properties in New Zealand at a less annual cost than they have been accustomed to pay in rent. They can get as many bushels from an acre as they can in Great Britain; they can keep their cattle in the open air the whole year round; and they can lay down land to grass which will feed the year round from two to five sheep to the acre.

Its Markets.

"The development of the transport of frozen commodities opens to them new prospects. They can send dairy produce and fruit in the page 9 refrigerators arrive in the Northern Hemisphere at the time when summer in the South is winter in the North, It is undeniable that the area of wheat-growing land is yearly narrowing, compared with the prodigious increase of the world's population; and when one sees what a trilling fraction is the total import of wheat and meat and dairy produce now sent by Australasia set against the figures of the total millions of importation, there is no reason to doubt that cereals and dairy products and fruit will yield larger profits than hitherto, whilst the frozen-meat trade will continue to extend. As to

The Future of New Zealand,

the facts briefly sketched are sufficient to enable every one to form his own judgment. Here is a country with a temperate climate, eminently fertile, and peculiarly healthy. It possesses good harbours, useful rivers, and an extensive seaboard, which, in course of time, will be the resort of numerous using Beets, for there is little doubt but that productive Barring banks will be found in the wide sea that stretches east, west, and south from the shores of the Colony. It possesses

Vast Mineral Resources,

whilst its abundance of coal and water power particularly fit it for manufacturing industries. It has, in fact, all the in material resources for manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. Easily, and most important, it has an industrious, energetic, and thrifty population.

"The early settlers were determined men of strong fibre, resolved lo spare no exertion in the 'heroic work' of colonisation. From time to time they were followed by others of the same character. When they were able to increase the population by assisted immigration, the greatest care was exerted in selecting the immigrants.

"The Government

has of late years rested in the hands of the colonists. They attach the utmost importance to the education of the entire people. They are essentially loyal to the Sovereign of whose dominions they form a part. They love freedom and liberty, and devise their institutions after the noblest models. Were the Colony less rich in resources, its people would be equal to overcoming any difficulties with which they might have to contend. But possessing, as they do, a country which has no superior in natural advantages, it is hard to set any limit to the progress of the Colony or to the welfare and happiness of its people."—The Times, August 1891.