EMIGRATION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1522, 5 November 1873, Page 3

EMIGRATION.

The competition for emigrants (says the Home News) seems likely to continue. With things as they exist just now, the harvest almost through, and the gathering in of the other crops being necessary at no very distant date, with manufactures • and other industries as brisk as ever, with long dayi and plenty of work, it is hardly probable that the number of immigrants leaving England during the next three or four months will be up to the average. By-and-by the season of emigration will come round again, and ample provision seems to be in progress in order to meet the occasion. The absolutely povertyitricken have hitherto been chiefly looked to as the means of supplying the necessary emigration to the Australian colonies, and from this source, there is little doubt, the chief supply must for some time be derived. How poor many of the wouldbe emigrants are may be gathered from the fact that hundreds of otherwise suitable perions are unable to take advantage of the privileges offered to them, in consequence of their inability to raise the twenty shillings required for their ship kit of cooking utensils, &c. Whilst, however, the very poor must still be tempted to seek for the good that awaits them beyond the leas, there are others who would be really valuable to the colonies whom it would be well to inform, and the present would seem to be the time for conveying the requisite instruction. These people are to be found among the money-saving workers—the mechanic and the labourer, who join building societies and open accounts with savings banks, the small ahopkeeper and farmer, who have managed by hard work and strict economy to lay by a few hundreds of pounds, the young plan who has inherited a similar amount, but who sees no opening for its profitable investment so as to conduce to his ultimate success and settlement in life,—these people might all be taught, by indirect means, the good that awaits them in Australia. Once let them possess the information, and they would rapidly avail themselves of the advantages offered. Without desiring to depreciate the emigration of the very poor, it may at any rate be contended that the man who has placed himself in a position not only to pay his own passage, but to land with money in his pocket, has as many of the elements of a good colonist within him as his poorer neighbor, other things being of course equal. This phase of the emigration question has been too much overlooked, and its absolute importance must be the excuse for returning to it over and over J again,