“EMIGRATION! WHERE SHALL I GO TO?”

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2081, 6 January 1870, Page 2

“EMIGRATION! WHERE SHALL I GO TO?”

“An Australian Colonist ” has published a pamphlet with the above title, and in it he manifests a thoroughly practical knowledge of the Australian Colonies, and of the advantages offered by each to the emigrant Here are his word-paintings .of five of theiii :—All the Australian Colonies are known to me, and I have a good word to say for them all. If Queensland be hot, it is wonderfully fertile. If mosquitoes, do bother you there, you have a magnificent range of country to dodge them in. If you have large capital, you can take up a run the size of Yorkshire ; or, with a smaller one, can become a lord of the wastes and a whipper-in of fat cattle. If South Australia be copjrer, she,is corn as well. The finest of wheat and the richest of fruit are there produced. Hot you would be in the summer, but the winter has the most delicious climate that the globe can show. If not possessing the material resources of her neighbors, she can exhibit moral phases before which European civilisation might blush. New South Wales, first in the roll of colonial settlements, has much to be proud of besides her superior antiquity. Though her streets.ai’e a little behind the day, they turn out a splendid show of carriages. Though the ‘‘ Brickflelder ” is a sore foe to breath and patience, the hills are Montpeliers without miasma. Though the interior be occasionally very hot and dry, it grows the finest wool, it yields unequalled grapes or oranges, and throws out bunches 01 copper, nuggets of gold, and darlings of diamonds. Dear Tasmania, the Isle of Beauty, had the misfortune to be tenanted by a lot of bad characters for a long time, and so got a bad name. And yet, odd as it may be, this old dust-hole of Britain has a larger percentage of children attending Sunday schools than any place in the world j and I heard a good authority say that it showed the highest rate of subscribing charity. For the present it is under a cloud, the neighbor across the Straits has just opened such a fine shop, with lots of goods, that its trade is running away. Worse than that, the young men have been running away to larger and better pastures. But those who seek a quiet, happy home, in the climate most congenial to Britons, without the summer’s scorch or winter’s frost, may do worse than nestle in a soft Tasmanian valley. Victoria, however, is the queen of the Australias. She presents but one-fourth the space of her nearest neighbors, but has by far the largest proportion of good land. She has the gold of New South Wales, the wool of Queensland, the grain of Adelaide. Her gold is the purest, her wool the finest, her wheat the most most plentiful. In climate, while warmer than Tasmania, being able to revel in grapes and apricots, she is much cooler than all ahe other colonies near. Her plains feed more sheep to the acre, her valleys produce more grain to the acre, her lulls more gold to the load. For picturesque beauty, though wanting in the sublimity of the Alps and the grandeur of America, she has few rivals. Her wooded heights, her gentle vales, her sunny streams, her laughing glades, can please the vqlgar pye, and rouse the poet's soul.—jlbor New Zealand! not a word about her and her resources.