IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4188, 29 July 1876, Page 4

IMMIGRATION.

To the Editor. Sin,—On perusing your columns my attention was drawn to a letter that so tallied with my own case that I. cannot (with your permission) refrain from endorsing "A Victim's " remarks. i

Ralher more than eighteen months ago a •opy of Mr Adam's " Twenty-five Years in South New Zealand " fell into my hands. Unfortunately for me and mine I placed perfect credence in this piausibie work, and, like " Victim," left constant work and good wages, broke up my cosy, little home, arid bade farewell to friends and fatherland, fully prepared to put my shoulder to! the wheel and rough it. What was the.result? Only too, late I found out my folly. ; Only too late I found that this Eldorado existed only in the mind! of Mr Adam. I have .r. ~• "wwaggfid it" from Dunediiir |o Timarn, .nl ;*nd.a : friend of mine, has done so from : : Dunedjn-to.the West Coast*and Southlaiidj; »■• > j Mid, 3ike another of your correspondents; ' failed io discover, either; a scarcity of '-' ; -' libbters tor a job at my own trade ;,neithefr did I discover the place that tallies with his . list of wages and provisions. ' ■'■' ■'' If any are doubtful whether I have [gone 22T*.: w rougfcing'ift-* I .ca,a assure thenvthat I have been at pick and shovel work, lumping, chimney-sweejpijQgg and night-work—and my poor little wife at . vjr . she wash-tub. It is a hard matter to!keep y ~~- ~*&stfifitliJ ones arid makaiends meeiKat times, of V-Tamy "fey." Is there no

influential, man honest, enough to raise his T-'-T T °i°£ fWJJunst this merciless .wreckage, Earth's and tomes? WillTio one come for-. ward to check thief nefarfStts^system; fef am I, the only ill-used and victimised. —I am, " •*• -*'- port Chalmers, Tiily 'VS., ' J;' j

~-'J-'Xr, T'"3!-•';"?"•'• .To_the, .:;«'•■ J&B,~It is .a •: ; ' .; .afewijnore not stoppexP'afchome and ended their da\s in the jwprk- //•■■ l|ouse ? for-it is manifest he is one of .thbsfe'' -,.' • jgrumblers. who find; fault' Syith everything •si-, i.- &ad in paiiiculiir.'* "W,ith ourjener- •-•■'■ v . agent, Mr because ■•:;,»-•■, it has happened the price of provisions is a - • than that.rstated"'in his table '"'of "figures," caused' by.the large inilux of ..'"'' population froift a ll parts into this fertile mud clime. j ' <■-• Although the proposed banquet has' not <?■':. get assumed a tangible form, therp are y' r many citizens and settleijs who ''''l ,'■ consider'the- idea-'-to be a good one, and of ' the working classes numbers would enter heart and soul into the project if once arrangements were made. There are • thousands here who have blessed the day! when they left the Home -countiy? At Home the laborer toils from 6 to 6 in rain and slush on scanty meals. Summer and winter the . ... . ploughman rises at 5 and toils on untij dark, with only one hour's interval for his [brose. Compare this with the r eight hours' system here, where the working-man or ploughman, with good wages and substantial meals, can do as he pleases, besides the prospect of acquiring farm. With respect to the doleful letter of ''A Working Man's Wife," with twenty-four years' experience in the Colony, she is to be pitied in having no flesh meat but once a day. Surely something must be wrong; for if tho pair had been at all thrifty they ought to be ridiug in their carriage. Mr Adam, who landed hero about tho same time without a penny, has now a magnificent estate. Let the working classes show their appreciation of his mission in a tangible form by presenting him -with a service of plate, and the oitizens will organise a banquet. By doing bo they will refute the foul aspersions cast upon the Colony by a few ne'er-do-weels.— I am, &c, 0«> IDENTITY. « Dunedin, July 28.