THE STEWART'S ISLAND SETTLERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3931, 30 September 1875, Page 3

THE STEWART'S ISLAND SETTLERS.

To the Editor. : loading Air Adam’s “ Twr-nre-five Years’ of Emigrant Life in [!>•,. Soulh in' New Zealand, I was .var-prise ito nml the, fopo-.vi.,--statements, vie,.; -‘-The Government lafo'iv invited Shetland and ( rkm-y li »m-n settle in Stewart’s Island. Small gmufo of bird were to be given, ami boats and iiues pro. vidc-d, will previsions for ,-ix moothE; but these kind > ito its on the part, of the- Provincial Government to foster fishing enlctpri»o have not been msponded to with cnc-ivy, ami, s« fairs real ilfoi-t is concerned, they wfoe nor likQv ro do anything while the ptovi.sh.O'.i h-Hod Afctr two months none -if tk.|,i had olomed an acre, or maqfod <a j.omio, or caught a fish end yet tho water is teeming will,dish. 1 new heard of indolence displaying it oU in a more unwoilhy and obic‘c-tn,m { ..pit; uiamtcr than has been dgr,e by tnesc emiguun lidimurn -it Povl William.'' 1

Now, as far qa Oiknc-y and Smtland mlmrmen me concerned, fads speak fm themselves for those men are miquestionubly of i,ruit \<tllU*» i iiC IIICU RED. hy coiiscut, ihc Lied- toilova {« the world, and they are ad mi. rauly ski It td ndiormon, so us to he able iu iom a yearly “has vo4 of the sorC from those tivmemlmi* waters v,;hi.-h -urn-times „tn w the boid.-m of the FSciia (.ciman Iter-eu v.bh w iccks. Thy women are provvibi ,ip,- imiastriouH, and, in addition to dome -.lie .-did firm work, canyon an industry of feir own, the production of antdn wuolh-n -oods, mute peculiar to Shore isles. The li’e U J the commumty ib temperate, fi-nyal, and hardy; and the ynrpliu population forms one of the lust suoplies of immigrants.—l am, &c-, 1 x . V r, , , Wm. Dunedin, September 27.