IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4117, 8 May 1876, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

The following letter, from Mr 0. Holloway, was received by Mr Haughton by the San Francisco mail:—

“Wootton, March 6, 1876.

“We have only two ships going out between this and April. One of these will leave Glasgow (Scotland), and the other will leave London on the 12th April, so that the number of immigrants we are getting now is very limited. We receive various conflicting accounts at Home just now with regard to the prospects there are for emigrants in the Colony. lam aware that several formerly came out who never ought to have left the shores of Old England : they did not believe in work, and thought to loaf about in the Colony the same as they did at Home ; and when they fonnd they had to work oat there, instead of living upon the charity of others, they were disappointed—hence the unfavorable reports they send home. While men of the right stamp coming out, who have a little push and energy about them, and who were sober, industrious, and economical, and who went out determined to rise and make their way in life, these men send home firstclass accounts of the Colony, and attribute the failure of others either to their idle loafing or intemperate habits. “ I am pleased to find from dispatches received in London that the Government is E leased with the class of emigrants we have een sending out lately, and that they are satisfied with the efforts which Mr Kennaway and myself have been making to secure the right class of emigrants. The course we have been pursuing is the only proper course to be adopted to secure the class of emigrants you want in the Colony. I am constantly engaged in the various counties, lecturing and otherwise imparting information among the very class you want in the Colony; and I believe you have the right man in Mr Kennaway in the office in London, who spares neither labor or pains to secure only emigrants who are thoroughly eligible. “ They are now granting free passages to South Australia, charging nothing for ship or outfit, and paying the railway fare of emigrants to place of embarkation. Queensland is still taking out emigrants free. Not quite so much is being done with regard to emigration to Canada just now.”