The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 54, 4 March 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1874.

We yesterday published extracts from a communication by Mr Holloway, tbe representative of the Agricultural Laborer's UnioD, to the Otago Guardian. Mr. Holloway is at present making a tour of the Otago province, and from thence he means to work his way northwards, and to visit all the provinces of the Middle Island, so that we may expect him in Nglaon in the course of a month or two. The impression that he takes nway with him of this province is likely to influence in no small degree the immigration scheme adopted by the Provincial Council. He means to come here, and he certainly will report upon the attractions or otherwise of Nelson aB a field for immigration. We therefore trust that tbe authorities will place every facility iD his way for seeing (he province, and making himself generally acquainted with our institutions.. He has already expressed himself as " favorably impressed " with Otago, and we may depend upon it that the Superintendent and Executive will not leave a stone unturned to secure, bis influence among those he represents at home in favor of that province. In Canterbury we may safely give the authorities credit for doing the same, so that in both these provinces we shall have powerful rivals in the emigration market. However, we need not fear either of them if only we take care to make Mr Holloway thoroughly acquainted with the advantages that we can offer to those who are disposed to cast in their lot with us. He is evidently a shrewd observer and there is little that escapes his notice. In Dunedin he has already visited the timber yards and local manufactories, and has come to the conclusion that *' Dunedin is a go-ahead place." Wo, too,can show him timber-yardß and manufactories, not so large perhaps, or so numerous as those he has visited in the South, but sufficiently extensive for our present requirements, and containing the latest improvements in machinery. He takes an interest in all public institutions, euch as asylums, hospitals, &c. We have no need to be ashamed of what we have done in this direction. He visits the Government schools, and to these he pays particular attention, for " our people," he says, " think a great deal of education now, and they would not care to emigrate to any colony where it was neglected." On our educational system we justly pride ourselves, and on this particular point we cnn hold our own against any of the^her provinces. We have no doubt whatever that Mr Holloway will be quite as well pleased with our schools as with those in Dunedin, where he was " struck with the healthy appearance of the children, and with the good order and discipline that prevailed." Mr Holloway lays great strees on the climate, which, if it be all that has been represented, will go far towards causing " a stream of immigration to flow to this colony that will place it amoDgst the foremost and most wealthy nations of the earth." Now the climate of Nelson ia universally allowed to be the finest in the whole of New Zealand, bo that Nature has provided us with one powerful argument that should have great weight with our expected visitor. It only remains for us to show him the country that we are about to open up in the ttuller, our goldfields and other districts such bs Golden Bay and the valley of tbe Motueka, and to give him every information with regard to our minerals. We sincerely trußt that . the Superintendent and Executive -'mlt be fully alive to the importance of Mr Holloway'd visit, and take as good care to

impress him favorably, with Nelson as will have been done by the Governments of Otago and. Canterbury in the interests of their respective provinces.