The caso was not tho same as if the colonists had no other people whom they could bring here, or if labor could not be got elsewhere than from China. There were millions of our own people who would flock to these shores, and fill the country with labor if required. He (Mr Shoehan) would object to an alien raco coming to Now Zealand and taking up land. He would not deprive Chinamen of their living. There wore largo tracts of country and other fields of enterprise suited to Chinamen whore Eng-lishmeu did not thrive, although Chinamen could live there at ease. Queensland for instance. But New Zealand was so peculiarly suited to the British people that it should bo colonised by those who had the best right to come there. But the actual question had not yet arisen in this colony. He wo\ild en deavor to impress the working men who heard him with a firm faith in the high destiny of tho country of their adoption. Mr Swanson, M.H.R., said, that -as a working man himself, ho asked every working man present to be his own friend, to need no patronage, to have some money in tho bank, to join a benefit society, to insure his life, to do anything that would secure him against a rainy day when he could not work, Tho working man was sometimes told to be content, with his lot, and a great deal of such advice was lavished upon him. For his own part ho had always acted upon the maxim that the man who was poor and content with his poverty deserved contempt rather than praise. Lot them try to improve themselves in every way, to improve their position, to improve the condition of those who looked to them for support. No man should over, if he could help it, allow it to bo said of him that ho left to his family the bottom end of an empty meal barrel to live on after he was taken from them. _________________

CRICKET.
