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and Canje water schemes, have rendered his name 

 imperishable. In nearly all these instances the first out- 

 lay is so heavy that Government loans are peremptorily 

 needed to enable the work to be undertaken, and the 

 greatest care is necessary to expend the money with 

 economy, or insufficient revenue from the outlay and 

 consequent loss to the general exchequer may arise. It 

 is just as great a mistake to expend money upon im- 

 possible education schemes or colony roads, which no 

 man of independent judgment ever expected the 

 authorities could recover, as to spend it for a laudable 

 object, but in a lavish and extravagant manner, upon 

 ventures like the Canals Polder, where works of an 

 exceedingly solid character, but undue cost, will serve as 

 monuments to remind the general taxpayer of how he 

 was bled to gratify the vanity of an official, or to benefit 

 some special section of the community, at the cost of the 

 public revenue. 



To concentrate our population in the most favoured 

 spots, and to extend the radius of civilisation with the 

 utmost caution, is the duty of our rulers : to induce 

 settlement instead of migration to and from foreign 

 lands ; and to encourage local industry andthriftbyprudent 

 adjustment of tariff and internal taxation. All these objects 

 will be attained if we open out our adopted country in 

 a way that shall bring us in touch with the outward 

 world of commerce and knowledge, and lead them to 

 regard us once more, and deservedly, as the El Dorado 

 that Sir Walter Raleigh once called our land. 



