The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-01-25

the colony stands in the first position as
fourishing country in the present, with
magnificent prospects in the future. The
work in question first gives a general
sketch of the Australian Colonies in the
aggregate: it states that during the de
cade. 1S70-'S0. commerce has increased in
value 160 millions of dollars, manufactures
20 millions. agriculture IS millions, carry
ing trade 10 millions and banking %
millions: this advance is compared with
the progress Of several of the principal
countries Of the earth, and the palm has
to be given to Australia. The main object
of the compilation is to give information
with regard to New South Wales. and
this is done in a very complete manner.
The population in 1Si1 numbered 1862,
in 1881 it was 751, ,46S, though 6S,335 had
been deducted for the Colony of Victoria
in 1851, and 25000 for Queensland in
1859 The increase during the last de-
cade has been 1910 per cent: comparing
this with the similar period in the United
States it is found that the increase there
was 30.13 per cent; in Canada l4.23 per
cent; and in Great Britain 1O.5i per cent
The increase in the United States, during
any decennial period, since ll9O has never
exceeded 81 per cent. Asls almost always
the case in new countries the males are IN
excess of the females; there are tO,S3o
more of the former than OF the latter: TINS
of course will adjust itself III time. Roads
have been well attended TO, there beng
upwards of 10000 miles under the super
vision of the government engineers. Rall-
roads have been pushed along vigorously,
S49I miles are now open, and an aGdltonal
456 miles are in course of construction,
this will put New South Wales ahead OF
all the colonies in this particular. Iele-
graphic communication appears to be ex-
cellent. and every town of Importance Is
directly united to the rest of the world.
| The lines within the colony measure 1869
miles. Taxation, as compared with other
Australian Colonies, is comparatively light:
Il 19s AID per head of the population:
In Victoria it is e 28d, in New Zealand
| f3 As Cd; but then New Zealand is weighed
down by an enormous incumbus OF debt.
/ The revenue for 1881 was considerably
over S30,OO00OO The only thing that the
colony will have to be careful of, III rals
ing the revenue, is eyerdolng the land
sales, very large tracts of land have been
sold, and It would be wise to stop or at
1 least limit the sale for the next few years.
/ When we come to consider the national
resources of the colony, they are found to
be vast. Enormous herds of horses, sheep,
cattle and pigs help to swell the wealth OF
the colonist the success of the new
process, by which meat can be carried IN
/ frozen condition to the great consumers
of the world, has opened out a new field
1 to the stock raiser, and New South Wales
looks forward to competing successfully
with the United States farmers in supply
| ing the needs of the manufacturing cOun-
tries. Of the exports of pastoral products,
/ however, wool stands the first, the value
of this trade in 1880 was over S40,OOO,OOO.
/ 1t is to open out a fresh market for this
Ecyduct tnut Sir Henry Parkes has gone
| to the United States: the duty on wool is
almost prohibitory, and he is desirous of
effecting a reciprocity treaty; New South
| Wales admitting number of American
manufactures duty free. The agricultural
progress has not been commensurate with
| that of other industries, but the country
has fine prospect of development in
this direction, when it can produce fine
/ wheat, the vine, coffee tobacco, cotton and
sugar within its own borders. 1t is worth
noticing that the sugar crop of 1881 was
| 1882, ,336lbs, and that IN its production
no colored or Chinese labor was employed:
| this is a comment upon the remark of one
of the planters at the late meeting in the
Interior office; the gentleman stated that
no country in the world ever had produced
sugar in any quantity with purely white
| labor. At another time there may be an
opportunity to speak of the mineral wealth,
/ the growth of manufactures, the trade, the
educational system, the military organiza-
ton of this colony, but enough has been
said to shew what an important state Is
growing up to the south of us, what n
brilliant future that state has before 1t.
With the United States on one side, China
and Japan on another and these Australian
Colonies to the SOUTH how utterly ridicil-
lous is it to talk of Hawaiian supremacy
in the Pacific
Something may be learned from study
ing the history of the rise and progress of
New South Wales: What is it that has
made the country? it is that the men
who are engaged in the administration are
thoroughly patriotic. In every way possi-
BILE they desire to advance the good of the
country. They have made their homes
there, they do not regard it as simply a
place to make money in, from which as
soon as Their money bags are filed, they
will return to more cOngenial climes.
/ They make money, desire to do so, but
they are, many of them, living an active
political life. scheming for the future,
( planning far ahead, so that they may hand
along the state to their children, in such
shape, that they may be able to reap bene-
1 fits, the beginning of which have been
! laid by the fathers. Does such n far
sighted policy animate our councils? Who
/ has laid plans by which Hawaii may be
/ benefited 80 or 20 or even 10years hence!
| 1t is rather the fashion for us to live in
! the present, to allow things to drift along,
/ to stop here a hole, and there hole; to
walk with the eyes deliberately fixed down
ward to avoid as much as possible think
| ing about disagreeable prospects ahead :;
/ to be needless OF breakers until they are
| fairly upon us New South Wales would
never have succeeded as it has, unless it
| had fairly faced the problems that were
before it, had reasoned things down to
| bed rock That is what is needed here:
we have many subjects, which will prove
1 mighty hard to reason down; but which
should be talked out. When the Legisla-
ture meets there is plenty of work for it
/ to do in this line, and it is to be hoped
that such work may be done. The future
of the Hawaiian race is very misty and,
as year after year slips by, the darkness
seems to deepen, rather than to become
lighter. 1t will ever get darker and darker
unless some practical lines are laid down,
unless, from the highest to the lowest of
/ the native race, the necessity of facing the
future is understood, unless all awaken
from a sort of fools paradise. "After us
the deluge" seems a fitting comment on
! the actions of both legislatures and
many individuals. A country which is
looking well after its future, is pretty GER
tain to be getting along fairly well in the
present. Let us take this lesson from the
pamphlet on New South Wales.
NOTES..
! LETTER from San Francisco says the new
| steamer company means business. An Agent has
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