General.

This concludes the second division of my subject—a sketch of the industrial resources of New Zealand. At the risk of being included in Anthony Trollope's category of "Colonial Blowers," I think you will agree in the conclusion, that we have in this far-off isle of the sea the makings of a good country. We might even be justified in going so far as to say that nature has written on many a page the world old promise, "I will make of thee a great nation."