Mr Birch in Scotland.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 197, 19 August 1873, Page 7

Mr Birch in Scotland.

The Guardian has been furnished with the following extract .from a home paper, from wliicli it will be seen that Mr Birch is doing the best he can to make New Zealand known in Scotland :—" Inverurie.-—• Lecture.—On Tuesday evening Mr Birch delivered an address ill the /Town Halt here, on the subject of emigration to Dr Stables, 8.N., in the chair. It would really appear from all the lecturer said that New Zealand presented to the enterprising emigrant a lield which'few otln i* countriescan equal and none surpass. With a climate temperate and genial as a Scottish summer, I ait without its vicissitudes; beautiful scenery, provisions cheap and gooi'j work sure with an~average wage of Bs. a day of eight hours, and more than all, j " ke.i't neebounv and British laws; the ; lecturer's only wonder was, that any man, I Who was at all wishful to better his condition, could resist the inducements held |ouL by the New Zealand Government. He especially urged Vctunji men to so out : |if married and blessed with children, so ] much the better j if not, to marry biforo they started, and he tibial thenl not Id nldho I mow?)): Scotchmen, he said, were particuII r y wanted in that Colony ; their reliance jon self, their natural-independence, and Is.ilil education inado success a certainty. Tlia only-bugbear, was the sea, and the lcc Iturer, who has traveled in every country and clime, assured his audience that the | voyage was altogether pleisant and comfortable, and possessed not a tithe of the j d mgers of the shorter but. stormier passage 1 (to America. ..The address Was listened to '., with marked attention, and at its conclusion | Mr Birch was accorded a vei'y.hearty vota i Of .thanks.''