EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1822, 23 December 1879, Page 3

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

A correspondent informs the “Times” that a remarkable movement is in progress in Lincolnshire. Over 500 farmers and landowners, who occupy or own in the aggregate considerably more than 100,000 acres, have signed a requisition to two gentlemen, requesting them to "proceed to New . Zealand in order that, after personal inspection, they may report upon the colony as a field for emigration for farmers possessed of means and capitalists, with special reference to such as have had experience of farming in Lincolnshire. The gentlemen whose services have thus been requested are Mr Grant, of Healing, near Grimsby, and Mr Foster, from the neighbourhood of Lonth. Both are . practical farmers. They sail in the steamship Norfolk, for Melbourne, and propose to spend ■ several months in Now Zealand, returning to England in tho course of next summer. Should their report be favorable, there will probably be a considerable exodus of emigrants of a superior class to New Zealand, especially • from Lincolnshire.

The “Daily News” observes that at tho Manchester Conference the miners resolved to make the grants in aid of emigration to Australia and New Zealand twice as largo as those to miners going to America, and there is no doubt of the capability of our own colonies to give employment to those who are able to turn their hands to the more elementary occupations of industry. Last year 1500 “clerks and agents,” 10,000 “ gentlemen and professional men ” went out from this country as emigrants, and it may be doubted whether those of these classes who did not carry out capital are likely either to develop the colonies or to benefit themselves. For all who can do the work which most wants doing there is a certainty of reward in the many still young countries occupied by our race.