NEW RUGBY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3005, 11 February 1881, Page 3

NEW RUGBY.

Mr Thomas Hughes has returned to give us his own impressions of tho new colony started under his auspices in Tennessee. He is naturally very sanguine, and counts upon New Rugby affording a useful outlet to classes that have hitherto found emigration impossible. According to his accounts, many settlers have gone out to undertake vaiious lines of life. A couple mean to try sheep-farming j another was resolved to test the capabilities of the colony in growing tea and coffee; a third, t( the son of a person eminent in the world of horses, who had the supervision of the Queen's stables, was going in for breeding horses." All alike were agreed that the soil was peculiarly favorable to the growth of vegetables and fruit, and already tomatoes, yams, potatoes, and Lima beans had been raised with great success. The colonists were mostly people of a superior stamp, gentlemen bolonging to the upper middle classes, who had found all avenues of employment overcrowded at home. That some of the first of these took out with them their home tastes was plainly shown by Mr Hughes in his explanation of the name given by Americans to the settlement. They had christened it •' the asylum." It appears that the newly-arrived batch of Englishmen, instead of tackling work seriously, began by laying out a lawn tennis ground. No doubt they also played ; and the 'cute Yankees, who do not care much for any game but the great game of moneymaking, thought tho new settlers had gone out of their minds, and called their home " the asylum."