Mr Adam in Scotland.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 261, 29 September 1874, Page 3

Mr Adam in Scotland.

,We hotite by the JPeqpfe’j J&Urnql of June 6th, that Mr James- Adam, the Emigration Agent jn Scotland-fpE iaa been lecturing at Alfetdatid Inverurie.' Of the Alford lecture it'was reported :—“Perhaps the moat interesting partrpf tfie lecture iWP $> reference i to: the by which Mr • Adam proposed to turn,five hundred Alford ploughmen into as many [Otago] farmers in five years. At first sight his statement has an exaggerated look about it; but it was presented in such a feasible and sensible-like manner-that doubts as to its truthfulness seemed to be removed. Mr Adam put it in this way: Suppose 600 ploughmen emigrated next term, and landed in the Colony of Otago in 80>days. Government provides them with house and food till they find work. Ploughmen will be engaged in a day or two at £55 a year and good substantial food, getting mutton twice or thrice a day. At the end of the first year the ploughman can have saved £46, and |sing on in this way, at the end of four years he will have about £2OO to begin with. He can apply to the Government for about £6O acres of land, which is paid for by instalments spread oyer ten years. The £2OO of saved wages can be laid out, in fencing and breaking up new land, which any man with a pair of horses can do at the rate of an acre a day, and. when the land has lain a yearfallow, the new farmer is all ready to sow hia cpopa, and be numbered among the farmers of Otago. During the last three years 700 new farmers have been added to the list of the Otago farmers, and-Mr Adams ventured to affirm that 500 of them were servants five years ago.” In his lecture at Inverurie, spea&ing of the prosperity of Otago, the lecturer said it was not dependent on one industry.' There were 4,ooo,ooo'.‘sheep, bringing into the country £BOO,OOO annually • from the sale of wool. The mineral resources (chiefly dug out of the mountains) were equal to one ton of gold every seventeen days! Agriculture was represented by 3700 farmers, who tilled their own land, one of them paying annually£Booo in wages.” A large poster distributed by Mr Adam sets forth in big letters “ Free Emigration to Otago, New Zealand.” Much being said about the representations on which immigrants have been induced to come to the country, we give the contents of the poster A lecture will be delivered in the Public Hall, Alford, on Monday first, at half-past 7 p.m., by Mr James Adam, farmer for the past 26 years in New Zealand.” The poster then seta forth under the head of “ wanted,” ploughmen, £SO to £6O per annum and board; good agricultural labourers, Bs. per day ; blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, &c., 12a. to 14s. per day of eight hours; domestic servants and dairy-women, £3O 4;'o £35 per annum; cooks, at £4O; 300 needlewomen wanted, 18s. to 255. per week-of eight hours per day. Mr Adam,.wishes to engage a working grieve for a farm of 500 acres, wages £BO per annum ; and six ploughmen. ' Persons wishing for any further information on the subject may call upon Mr and Mrs Adam, at the Haughton Arms Hotel, Alford, from nine o’clock a.m. to nine p.m. on Tuesday first, June 2.* ■ 'Vn-

The Armadale Express reports the following occurrence at the Court of Quarter Sessions in that town ; —“ The Court adjourned for an hour On re-opening at 2 p.m., his Honor Judge Meymot said he v» ished to make a remark. He, had invited several ladies to a seat on the bench that day, and he had done so because he had considered them worthy of the honor. He had the pleasure of having known Madame Carandini for 24 years, and her daughters since they were children. He knew that they were ladies in every sense of the word. He knew no lady more entitled to the support of the public than Madame Carandini was, for the admirable way in which she has brought up her daughters.—Mr Docker thought he could, on behalf of every member of the court, express the great pleasure that had been felt in the court having been graced by the presence of these ladies.—His Honor expressed his pleasure in hearing Mr Docker’s remark, and said that the ladies were in every way worthy of it. ” What a pity, says the Melbourne Argils, the Carandini family cannot get themselves equally well advertised by one of the Supreme Court Judges of this colony. These peripatetic warblers never got beyond a County Chairman or the Superintendent of a secondclass Province while in New Zealand, so that the Australians have the advantage in this direction. Jhe sum spent in strong drink in 1872 in Great Britain was £120,000,000, or seventythree millions more than the total railway receipts. These are certainly very startling figures. The following telegram was sent from New York to various parts of the United States on April 28 “ Obadiah Bound, aged sixty, living at Richmond, Staten Island, went to a newspaper office here yesterday evening, and wanted the best reporter on the paper to take home with him last night and prepare a sensation for to-day’s reading. The reporter accompanied him home, and, after Bound had spent two houfs giving him a history of his life, he coolly exclaimed, ‘Mr Reporter, I shall be a corpse in a few minutes’; he then swallowed a very large dose of laudanum, and, to the horror of the reporter, was soon dead. Bound inherited 350,000 dollars a few years ago, and had run through it all in dissipation. The Arroyo Observer mehtiohs a party On the Shotxmr, who have cleared £IOOO in eight