IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2082, 7 January 1870, Page 2

IMMIGRATION.

To the Editor of the Evemnq Star. Sn:,—Your leader upon immigration is all very well taking your view of the case. But 30a labor under a wrong impression in thinking that the laboring classes generally arc adverse to immigrants coining here.

I believe nine-tenths of the working classes in this Province would rejoice to see them landing here at the rate of ten thousand per month, providing there was work for them, and all the “ economic science ”in the world would never prove, that a multitude of people coming here with nothing in their pocket, and the expectation of getting work is going to cause snch a prosperous state of things as you assert. You draw comparisons between this and other countries, America in particular, which are preposterous ; allow me to draw a comparison. In 1862, a project was started to cross the American continent by rail, and since that time it has become an accomplished fact, measuring something under 4,000 miles, all complete and in working order. In 1863 a line was surveyed from Dunedin to Port Chalmers for railway purposes and only measures something like nine miles, when it will be completed is something like the distance of the sun from the earth—its doubtful. But can you, sir, give us any idea when the -work is likely to commence, and oblige, Happy Jack. Dunedin, sth January, 1869.