MR. VOGEL'S IMMIGRATION PROJECTS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 840, 13 October 1870, Page 3

MR. VOGEL'S IMMIGRATION PROJECTS.

[MELBOURNE TEI/EGBA.PH.J Mr Vogel, the Treasurer of New Zealand, and the author of the National Immigration scheme about to be tested there, sees, we may hope, the Canadian papers, because Lanada has recently been the scene of National Emigration schemes, Bid the Press gives some curious particulars of the result. Mr Vogel expects the twenty or thirty thousand people he is to introduce per annum will take twelve months' employment on the railways at 30s per week, and then settle down into industrious producers. He will have, we are afraid, to get a veiy different class of men from the individuals England has generously shipped to Canada. The Toronto Globe describes the immigration sheds as being thronged with " lazy characters," who will not accept a job at a reasonable rate of remuneration, but prefer to spend their time in loafing, Our contemporary doubts very much whether Government immigrants are the right men to develop the resources of a Colony, and is positive that they will lower the juoraJ. tone of the community. Canada, indeed, appears to want what Victoria wants —namely, active and enterprising men, giued with a facility cf resource; men of wiU'ug hands, temperate habits, pad brave hearts, coming here to found homes rather tljan make fortunes. And these are the men England is no way inclined to part with. They are fish which ,come not within the meshes of any Government charity net, no matter with what care it may be spread. The immigrants Mr Vogel is sure to get, and whom Mr Verdon would get if he became a iisher of men, are the failures of the community, of whom Canada has sickened already. And Mr Vogel, and others than Mr Vogel —the whole Vogel family —may learn from Canada that an idle, dirty, and loafing man, is not made industrious and capable of supporting himself by simply transporting him across an ocean. The truest colonists the world has ever seen were the Pilgrim Fathers, who went to settle the laud, to make the barren places rejoice and the wilderness to blossom, and we neither driven from home by poor-house guardians, nor allured by a gold fever. The nearer the 1 Colony can get to that type of settlers the better -—the less it will want witb Government agents, and the mure settlers it will be prepared to take.