The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 6, 1906. IMMIGRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1667, 6 February 1906, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, FEB. 6, 1906. IMMIGRATION.

There is quite an outcry beiDg raised in the different oolonies on tbe subject of immigration. Australian Statos that oan neither find suitable land nor work for their own people are eager to be in the rush for new population, and in England I the authorities seem ra’her pleased than otherwise at able-bodied men beiog Bent out to the oolonies. Our cablegrams today show that Lord Stratbeona has made a generous offer towards assisting immi* I grants to Canada. In an interesting article on New Zealand’s needs, the New Zealand Herald goes back on to its favorite subject of idle Dative lands as follows : —After over sixty years of sett’emeut we have iu this coloDy ; considerably I less than a million people. . This would be satisfactory if a million people were ali the country could suppott at a high standard of comfort and prosperity. But as a matter of fact we should ali be muoh better off if there were five million industrious people in New Zealand, for the oountry could well support them, and everything that mokes a civilised community would be advanoed by their presence It is quite true that the colony could not suppoit five million if some political convulsion swept the entire

population of Australia as refugees to out shores, but we Bpeak of what it could do ii immigration were intelligently encouraged and ii systematic steps were taken to develop our natural resouroea as rapidly as is possible. Mr Deakin postulates that the States Governments must make land easily available, and that is the crux of the immigration question in all new countries, Every land-se tier becomes not only a direct and immediate producer of woalth, but tbe source of seoondary production, constantly iuorrasing and expanding. As it is sound State policy, to the advantage of every man, woman, and child in the country, that every idle acre should bo cultivated, that the land-eeeking immigrant should be assisted and welcomed as loDg as he can be set to woik upon virgin land. Australia has many hundred millions of acres which are suitable for settlement, particularly in connection with national irrigation sohemes of gigantio size. In area, New Zealand cannot compete with her Con-

I t'nentsl neighbors, but areas are not in I tbe competition as loDg as we have any I unoccupied lands to offer. We have the I Native Lands, and not only the Native Lands, but considerable amounts of Crown Lands which can be readily settled wbeD once the Native Lands that now smother I them are opened up. As far es the North I Island is concerned there is plenty of I room for double the present agricultural population if all suitable . lands were thxwj open to sett’ement upon fair

teims and if they were made available by roads and railways. And it is surely not (Btates the Noithern journal) uoreasonab eto ask the Government to do this; to | act energetically in the matter of the Native Lands, and to make our Northern settlement railways beforo wasting millions upon railways in the Southern Alps. , If this were done wo should have plenty of land to offer, not only to our own native born settlers, but to many thousands of immigrants, and we could compete successfully, for the time being, in the emigration fields of the United Kingdom, even against such giant rivals as the Dominion of Canada and the Common-

wealt of Ahustr&Ua.- While we have any vacant lands there is no good reason why we should not be stronuoue in our national

efforts to attraol settlors from England, I for tbero will bo no real sboit’go of I land for many generations. Many par s I of tho oolony, tbo North of Auokland 1 particularly, aro ovidootly boat suited for 1 oxteDsho cultivation, and as fruit growiug 1 booomcs systematised wo shall find I what is now eonsidorod thicd-olass laud carrying hoavior populations than much of what is now oonßidorod first olats. In aDy oaso, unproductive land is worse than usolefs, for it lengthens railways and roads without giving adequate roturn. Every settlor whom wo oan attraot helps to boar tho burdon of taxation, to make and maintain our roads, to support and oxiond our railways, to improvo our sohools, to provido employment for our artisans and labourers, and to give trade to our merchants. More than this, bo and his ohildion and his children’s childron mulco their homo with us and become part of us, thus strengthening tho soaoty gartison of British colonists who may somo day bavo to rooboo with five bundrod million Asiatics.

Tho Matawhoro ttook sales will bo bold 10-morrow.

Mr end Mrs Harry Bayloy left Auckland on Saturday night for tho old country via Syducy. The Gisborne Woo'.brokots’ Association ! hold their salo of wool, sheoptkins, hicjeßi, oto., to-day. An Adelaide cablegram states that thO Rev. Ohas. Butler, a passenger for New Zeeland by the s.s. Medic, died on the voyage, and was buried at sea. Twooty'five oases of ToDgsin bananas will be so'ct by Messrs Millar and Craig at 11 o’olock to-day; afso 50 dyzon-inason jars, large and email,. The steamer Karamoa took from j,he Gisborne Shoepfarmors' 'Freezing works ono of tho largest shipments taken from this p0rt—17,698 earoaßOS mutton, and 7,436 carcases lamb.

Tbo post and telephone offioe at Mata-* whero will close on Thursday afternoons, Btb and 15ih ins!., instead of 7th and 14th iast., owing to temporary alteration in etook salo day.

The second heat for the Schumacher Cup, presented to tbo Gisborne Club, was I rowed off yesterday afternoon ovor the Taruheru mile oourso. Contrary to expectations, the races were not of an exciting nature, both Swinnerton and Sharp winning their heatß rather easily. In the entries of the Poverty Bay Turf Club's meeting, published in yesterday’s I issue, three entries were omitted. Blank and Discoverer should be inoluded in the Telephone Handicap, and Discoverer in the Farewell Handicap. The Gisborne Sheepfarmers’.s s. Shirley Hseoll sailed for Napier last evening, with a oargo of grass seed. The vessel returns to-morrow with a cargo cf live stock. On Thursday the steamer sails tor East Coast ports. A post-offioa has been established and opened at Waitakaro. Mails despatched from chief post-office, Gisborne, on Tuursdays, reach post town Saturdays. Mails despatohed from Waitakaro Saturdays arrive at ohief offioe Tuesdays. Mr Francis MaoKenzic, editor of the Whangara Noithern Luminary, having ocoasion to visit a neighbour, wbo is a native interpreter, on business, was vioiously attacked by a large female setter and received a severe bite on the musolo of his left arm. The patient is now out of danger. The animal, a valuable sporting one, was shot,

The licence of ono of the principal hotels at Warren (New South Wales) expired iu October, but the faot was overlooked both by tbe licensee and tbo authorities, and the sale of liquor proceeded as usual. Some days ago the licensee remembered the omission and he immediately closed the bar, and the lawyers are now trying to find a way out of the difficulty. Large numbers of rabbits are being destroyed in some districts of New South V7eles through eating wheat. Having gorged themselves, the rabbits go to the nearest water for a drink, and this causes tho grain to swell to such an extent that death ensues. Iu the Cobar district tens of thousands of rabbits are dying owing to the soarcity of water.

In tbe election for th Takitimu Council on Friday Nopera Rangiuia headed the poll with 87 votes. Tho other 11 elected reoeived the followibg votes:—Henare Burn 86, Himiona Kfttipaßs, Paoroa Kohu 83, Kaipaka Kingi 80, Taaro Wherei 79, Paratene Tatae 79, Turanganui Rawiri Hinaki 76, Te Aorere Matabiki73, Wetina Rikiraogi 64, Hamiora Hei 47. There were eight other candidates, four of whom oach received a single vote,

The Gisborne Racing Club's meeting, to be held on Thursday and Friday nest, is being looked forward to with much interest, and given fine weather a highly successful meeting should take place. Good fields are promised in all ievents, and the presence of a number of outside competitors should add increased interest to the raoing. The charges for admission, whioh are advertised in another coluiim, are nominal. Bookmakers will not be allowed on the course. The Gisborne Rifles Band will be in attendance, and in order to allow townspeople to be present, tbe business premises close at noon on Thursday. The following are the latest new eon-, neotions with the Gisborne Telephone ExohaDge: 150, M. Mahony, private residence, Rutene road, Haiti; 202, A. B. Newman, " Marshlands,” Ormond (1 long and 1 short ring); 317, Dunedin Cash (W. J. M. Attwood), Gladstone road; 358, Common, Shelton and Co., drapery department, Peel street; 380, Morris and Morrison, drapers and clothiers, Gladstone road ; 361, F. Sparrow, DeLautour road, Haiti; 362, F. J. Single, Wainui road, Haiti. The following, are deleted: 150, M. Mahony, Kahutia street; 232, T. F. Rutledge, Ormond ; 317, Dunedin Cash Co-operative Co., Gladstone road ; 163, M. E. Beavis, butoher, Ormond road. It was Alva tenth penny that goaded tbe sluggish Dutchmen to their heroic war of independence, shipmoney that kindled the patriotism of the Huntingdon yeomanry, and the Taff Vale deo'sion that seot the English Trade Unionists to their political tents. This does not mean that they have as a great body any strong sympathy with Mr Hoir Hardie’s doctrines, although they have certainly a very strong sympathy with some of the proposals by whioh the Heir Hardies would draw them along the road towards this purely imaginary and utterly impossible goal. This is what makes Sooial’sm a ) serious factor in modern politics.—Auckland Herald. The body of an unknown man was found in Barnes’ paddock, near Prospect, Sydney, having been gored to death by a bull. Throe men were passing a paddock belonging to Mr James Barnes, when they noticed an infuriated bull pawiDg wildly at what appeared to be a buodle of rags and otter debris. Beiog afraid to approaoh, one of the men eo6 bis dog on to the animal, and thus it was driven away. The men then went to the spot and found a man, apparently a swagman, lying on the ground in an unconscious condition. They precured some watar, which they poured over him. The man gave one gasp and then died. He was terribly bruised about j the head, and he had a wound about two inches loDg on the right sidp, from wbioh | a portion of tbe liver was protruding, From the surroundings it appeared that tho man bad been sleeping in tbe paddock, and, seeing the bull come to attack him, had tried to esoape from ita fury. The Wellington Poet gets in tbe following up-to dale story : —Reports that drifted out here from Westland conveyed seme Bort of indication o! the enthusiasm with whioh Westland dropped its ordinary occupations and accompanied the Premier in thousands wherever he went in bis rc

oen6 tour. An incident reported from Nelson sheds some fresh light on this in terestiDg fact. A case came on at the Magistrate’s Court there, having been adjourned from 9th January, a West Coaßt bailiff not having served the summons. A forlnigbt had elapsed, and still the summons had not been served. Speculations as to whether the bailiff was | dead, or on holiday, or otherwise engaged i were indulged in, but nobody suspected the true reason why defendants were beiDg left in peaoe until counsel for the plaintiff mentioned that on the first adjournment the summons had been returned to Nelson with a memo, endorsed as follows j “ Bailiff touriDg oountry with Mr Seddon —unable to serve summons.”