DESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1082, 19 March 1880, Page 3

DESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.

If the emigration agents at Home confined their efforts to the direction Mr Clay don is. reported to be doing, there would be very few complaints about an undesirable class of emigrants being sent out. In a letter recently received in Ashburton that gentleman writes:—

I am glad to say that my efforts to introduce a useful class of settlers for you are not altogether in vain. Several parties of middle class capitalists are already on their way to New Zealand, and on the 3rd of next month the New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Caroline leaves with another considerable party. In Somersetshire, where I hope to be next week, another party is forming, and numerous isolated cases of intending emigrants are continually coming before me. One Scottish capitalist writes me that he is going out to New Zealand with some high-bred sheep and cattle. Another is enamoured with my picture of the fruitgrowing possibilities of the Nelson district, and contemplates a repetition of the vineland in New Jersey there. A third is a half-pay officer, with £SOO a year, and seven boys and girls. He wants occupation, and a prospect for his family. A fourth is a capitalist; wants 7 per cent, instead of 3i per cent, as here. I have scores of such applicants, and many of them are on the wing. I trust that no efforts will be spared by your Government and people to make this work in every wav satisfactory.