HOME NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4119, 10 May 1876, Page 4

HOME NEWS.

To the Editor. Sib, —In the columns of your contemporary the * Times,’ of the Bth inst., there is news from Home of interest to the unemployed in Dunedin. The indefatigable ebam pion of emigration, Mr Adams, is still on the wing. His efforts to clear the mist of emigration muddle seem to be treated with contempt at Home, except among the ignorant I doubt the inducements held forth, such as free- grants of land, &c., are now considered a green cheese affair. Mr Adams has been lecturing on monster turnips grown on his farm at Tokomairiro. 1 wonder if he has sent any specimens to the

Philadelphia Exhibition. They would surprise the Yanks, An emigration agitateor of the name of Holloway is also doing a stroke in England. He is down on the loafers, and has, he says, found the right sort at last. He seems to be a very serious man, and indulges freely in the Quaker sentiment. However, he must be lucky. I think the Superintendent ought to commission him to send out a few engineer?, as the employers are crying out for fresh hands: the old ones only loaf about the streets, and the best men have gone up country clodhopping. I may be allowed to ask one question. Was the Government workshop at Kensington erected merely as an ornament, the same as the one at Port Chalmers. It appears from the ‘ Home News ’ that four locomotives are being constructed at the Avonside Engine Works, Bristol, for the New Zealand Government. To have made them here would have given employment to all the surplus mechanics in the iron trade at present unemployed in Dunedin. A deal of imported machinery beside might have been profitably executed in Dunedin, where locomotives are being constructed at the present time. It is a discredit to the General Go • ▼eminent, and no encouragement to Colonial industry, to keep artisans out of employment by sending work out of the Colony.— 1 am, &c., Interested. Dunedin, May 9.