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by the lavish gifts that nature here spreads before them. 

 There are amongst you those who are putting forward 

 their most earnest endeavours to promote and to foster 

 agricultural industries, such as the produ6lion of rice and 

 vegetable foods, and the utilisation of the vast stretches 

 of country awaiting their labours. May their efforts meet 

 with success. 



And then there are works of public utility and public 

 convenience long under consideration — long delayed 

 from varying causes. Some of these too seem within 

 measurable distance of commencement. It has recently 

 been made known that the project for the extension of 

 the existing East Coast Railway — aproje6l the birth of 

 which would probably antedate the natal day of many 

 an individual here — is at last to be taken in hand, and 

 very shortly we may see the aftual commencement of this 

 line, as well as of that most useful railroad which is to 

 conne6l Vreed-en-Hoop with Philadelphia on the West 

 Coast. And, this will all mean the letting loose of capital 

 amongst you, it will add to our internal trade, and I trust, 

 increase our revenues. 



There are other schemes commenced, or shortly to be 

 commenced, to facilitate travel in the interior; roads 

 have been approved and begun, and surveys of other and 

 even larger and more important works, are either being 

 carried out, or are to be carried out very shortly. 



The outside public in great centres of civilization and 

 finance, are nibbling at the prospefts which our land 

 holds out. Those who are in power in the Mother Coun- 

 try, are not forgetful of our existence — our wants and our 

 possibilities — and I cannot believe that i8g6 will pass 

 without some substantial advance being recorded, and, 



