IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3390, 2 January 1874, Page 2

IMMIGRATION.

A correspondent of large information on all social matters in England, on whom we (]}fount Ido, Chronicle) can thoroughly roly, writes us ‘ ‘ That what deters active measures of emigration, by the Government, out of England, is not,-1 fancy, the mere cost of shipment, but rather the sense of the re* sponsibility of suddenly introducing to New Zealand, or any Colony, large bodies of men without a certain assurance that they will not starve when landed, or that they will be absorbed in profitable employment. On this account it remains mainly with the' Colonies to show the manner in which emigrants will be provided for. I don’t think that the Colonies have, by any means, laid themselves out enough to make the way of emigrants clear to them. Naturally the mode of occupation varies Sometimes it is that of paid labor—sometimes unoccupied land is offered for cultivation. The colonies perhaps more clearly say what they don’t want than what they do : they don’t want clerks and their class—they don’t want paupers or men with pauper habits. Could you point out what you do want in a more concrete form than is generally done ? Could periodical estimates be roughly drawn up and issued of the probable demand for labor, as labor, whether in country or in towns ? Could you with any distinctness, assign localities where good cultivable land could be taken up ; stating, by way of guidance to the blind, what season they should arrive, and how they should set about making, themselves on immediate

livelihood—immediate, that, is, as soon as the season could permit crops to be reaped ? In short, what deters emigration moat, as regards possible emigrants, is the hazy view open to them on landing from the emigrant ships. We see in the papers from time to time, I think, more frequently reports of shipments to Queensland.; but, at the same time, authentic books cast the greatest doubts as to the advantages of Queensland, both- as to climate, which is tropical, aud as to the feeding capabilities of the land. Successful emigration would be doubly blessed— first, in establishing the emigrants themselves ; secondly, in increasing the demand for Home commodities. I should not expect any large number in- any one year; better moderate importations, carefully taken off. There is no fear of too many leaving England. According as they go, wages will rise, and it will be more advantageous to remain behind.”