" NEW AUSTRALIA."

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 203, 30 December 1893, Page 2

" NEW AUSTRALIA."

Tub exodus from the other Australasian colonies to the " New Australia," in Paraguay, still continues, and the good ship " Royal Tar " is reaping a golden harvest in freight and passage money. But it would appear that however attractive this new land of promise may appear " on paper," there are little drawbacks to be experienced on arrival, and before the pilgrims can I settle down comfortably to the consamption of the milk and honey some of them, at all events, expect to find without the trouble of working for at all, they must first purchase the cows and hive the bees. It would appear that at least eight of the members of the association have discovered this unpleasant circumstance, and have " turned tail " and fled to the British Minister at Beunos Ayres for consolation and protection. It is a remarkable fact that many people who shake the dust of British soil off their feet, from alleged dislike to the system of Government and all that pertains to a really free people, and fly to the protecting shade afforded by a foreign flag, are generally the first to claim their rights as British citizens the very moment they think their insular prejudices are in danger. The eight men who, after a remarkably brief stay in the new settlement, went whining to the coast are evidently of that kidney. Discontented in Australia, the land they departed from, they carried their idiosyncracies with with them, and, therefore, after the manner of their kind, made themselves a nuisance to their fellows, who in their turn sent them about their business, thus ridding the settlement of persons whose presence could only be a hindrance and a cause of internal disturbance. Of course an attempt was made to discourage other members of the association from continuing ou their voyage, but these "true hearts.,"

when they heard the telegram read, sent by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, thanked the Government for their kindly intentions, but said they knew the malcontents, and elected to go on their adventurous way.