Mr Duncan, Canterbury’s Immigration Agent at Home, appears to have fallen foul of an agent for Canada. Both were in a Scotch town on the same errand—the search for “head,”—and in order to convince a public meeting he was addressing of the superior attractions to the emigrant offered by New Zealand in general and Canterbury m particular, Mr Duncan boasted that his Province had produced oats weighing 501bs to the bushel, and that this grain beat Canada and California at the Vienna Bxhibition ; to which the Canadian retorted that this “trumpeter of New Zealand” forgot to mention the length of the passage to the latter place ; the liability of death from disease mso long a voyage; that a New Zealand emigrant ship had lately thirty or forty deaths on board; and that taxation in Canada was LI per head, against Ll2 in New Zealand, '
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Evening Star, Issue 3550, 9 July 1874, Page 3
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144Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 3550, 9 July 1874, Page 3
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