FAMILY COLONIES DECRIED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1871, 19 June 1888, Page 3

FAMILY COLONIES DECRIED.

- — ■■ ♦ ; — . ■ In referring to a scheme for establishing a Family C >lony In Sou h Africa, "Truth" h»a ihe following remarks:-— " The idea is that the whole family, fit and unfit, babe acd grandam, Bhould go out together, with the perambulator, family Bible, family teapot, big gingham, and family .feedng bottle, and bring their united fami'y strength to bear upon ' savage nature In her rudest form.' If thero are any snakes m the place (always soma British colony whfch is not looking up), It is shrewdly calculated that the baby o»n strangle them In his crad'o, 1 whtie tho father ia f-oalplng ,the ij aboriglnea aod the mother ("la the intervals of making bread which ehe has not the remotest idea of making without 'baking powdor') Is felling tbe trees of the primeval forest. Moreover, lest by any chanca family morals or faith Bhoald get ous of gear m tho <vil& land, the emigrants are to taka with them their 'paster' to keep all straight. This U about the oruelleßt notion [.ever B'artod. There are very few people fitted to succeed as colonists, and a whole family never Is. The emigrants who succeed are young adventurous men and woman, who go out prepared to rough It and look about thorn, and learn the emigrant's business before they settle down."