The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-30

New Zealand has gold mines but of the encng char
acter of those in South Africa Western Australia British
Columbia and consequently the class population that has
been cngatng from Great Britain OF late has not
been attracted there The colony relies principally its
agricultural and for that the prom
ising England possesses for Canada is large in
dusrally under United States domination The exports
relative to population not only but ncreas-
ing at still marvellous rate, having than doubled
in the fifteen gain in numbers of but nethrd
The shipments OF articles of produce have multiplied
nearly skiold OF butter from just 100000 pounds in
1886 to in and of chilled from 100000
hundedweight less than 100000. In wool the i'm
provement has been less remarkable but still important
namely, from sooooooo 47oooooo pounds, while the
quantity Of cereals shipped docs anything
of consequence
No Australian colony show anything like such prog
is doubtful indeed il there another country the
world that touch it relatively One of it
difficult to discoverthe people anxious crowd
into the big and whereas Melbourne alone contains
than per OF the entire popation of Victoria
there town in New Zealand with anything like per
cent while the four principal widely separated and
each center of large district do include among them
much quarter OF the total Were population
to approximate to that OF the mother country these
islands in the Pacific would contain between and
of people though course could only happen
by impulse industry other than agriculture such as
there likelihood of. But there for ten
fold increase and the of it manuactur-
ing industries would be certain spring up flourish
twenyold expansion would still leave the territory
overcrowded.
No movement in this direction take place with
out affecting the Australian continent we'll which being
three ourhs the size of Europe has limitabe possibilities
as regards provision for population When the tremendous
expansion of the North American continent especially OF
the United States during the last century into ac
count we form idea of what may happen in the
southern Pacific during the just entered upon
On the other hand neither the population requirements
OF Great Britain grow for indefinite period at the
rate hitherto and the day be very far dis
tant when there will need to be great oupouring The first
spell OF serious industrial depression will be to turn
the of muudes beyond the and recent ex
periences it scarcely South Africa upon which their gaze
will aght No country is likely under circumstances
to attractive New Zealand which were it only
able to secure moderate but regular annual influx would
short time become serious rival the principal ex
porters Of agricultural products, Mr. Henry Demares
Lloyd's recent book on New Zealand is entitled Newest
England He describes the country visit to study
IT. as no Utopia and ideal evolution OF social reformer
but the result OF practical experimentation by practical men
hardheaded middeclas Engishmen freed by their dis
lance from England and America from ammes of in
herited institutions and planning and building up new ones
simply according to their needs and following their own CON
illusions