Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1358, 25 June 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1872.

We have recently received a copy of a pamphlet published in Taranaki, from the pen of the indefatigable Mr. C. Hursthouse, on the subject of the further peopling of this Colony. This subject has of late acquired more than its ordinary importance from the immigration policy of the Government, and the efforts ma'le by the Agent-General in Europe to despatch people of alien races to our shores.

The ground taken by Mr Hursthouse, and the line of argument adopted by him, closely approximates to that which we have taken and pursued in the.se columns. Our efforts to aid and en courage emigration should, like charity. be<nn at home. We do not consider it o wise, or hardly just to the multitudes of eligible and worthy candidates in our own land, that our agents should seek abroad for immigrants before every available means has been tried to find them there.

It happens unfortunately that one of the most suitable classes of immigrants and at the same time a class that would be most glad to accept the aid offered by the Colony, if it was known as shown by Mr Hursthouse, a class the most difficult to reach in the way ordinarily adopted by emigration agents. w It is ea'-y enough to make any new emigration scheme known to town and city working men, but not so easy to do so to their rural fellows." Yet it is the rural working man that will make the best colonist. He is not only a* a rule more robust and healthy,

but he is also more able to adapt Mm self to new and varying circumstances* than the workman of a town or city, because there is not that sameness in his employment, resulting from the minute subdivision oi labor, that obtains in their case. In other words, while the scope of a town workman's skill is generally confined to a limited branch of a particular trade, that of a country tradesman is often extended and diffused over several cognate employments. A village carpenter can frequently work as a painter and glazier ; a vil'age smith as tinman and plumber; and so of the rest— qualities invaluable to a colonist. The circumstances of this class are often such as to warrant the expectation that many of them would gladly avail themselves of the chance of bettering their condition by emigration if its fair probabilities were only plainly placed before them. This class of people are not, however, great readers of books or newspapers, and so it happens that the means that are well adapted to reach the workman of the town fail to reach him of the rural districts. Other methods must be taken to reach him if it is wished to inform him of the inducements offered by the Colony to obtain an increase of population. The method proposed by Mr Hursthouse is one that we have often advo cated—a system of itinerant lecturing in order to obtain the class of immigrants required. We can, therefore, cordially join with him in expressing the belief that there is "no way of making known and popularizing any good emigration field in England half so quick and fruitful as that of really good, energetic, free public public lecturing." Mr Hursthouse himself proved it to be so many years ago when acting ; in this capacity under the old New ; Zealand Company, and he now offers his services in the same field to the Government as a lecturer under the Agent-General in England. We feel sure that the plan proposed wtmld prove eminently successful, and we trust that the Government will be able to see their way to the acceptance of his offer.