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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 278, 24 November 1874, Page 2

Says the Auckland Herald:—- Thirty families of immigrants, our telegrams inform us, are to be sent to the Kuratm a, in the Nelson province, as the nucleus of a special settlement. These immigrants are to be guaranteed 8s a day for three days in the week for six months. Each family is to have 55 acres of land at an annual rental of 2s an acre for 14 years, when it becomes (For continuation see fourth page.) ,

freehold* -Verily, many a struggling colonist who has paid his passage out to Nelson, together with that of hia wife and family, woald only be too glad to bave one-half of the advantages conferred on him which are offered to tbe stranger. It really becomeß a serious consideration, and not in any light to be looked npon aa a joke, whether it wonld not be advisable for old colonists to take passage home to come out again as immigrants, with a free passage, 24s a- week guaranteed for six months per man, with 55 acres of land at a rental of 2s per acre, and to become freehold in fourteen years. Encourage- . ment may possibly be carried a little too far in tbia direction, when the money for such a thing is drawn from the settled population of the provinces. It places a new arrival in a far more enviable and prosperous position than those, who have been fighting -many years for a bit of freehold where the owner might sit nnder the proverbial fig-tree. A good story, and a trtie one, of an effectual cure in\Waogahui has just leaked out. It appear* that sometime ago a yonng lady took. ill, aod sent for the doctor, who pronounced her case a serious one, and told her he wonld send ber some pills, which ehe mnst take wifhj the jOtmoat regularity. ; Acoord-ingly,-tb.s _#_K_ulapius dispatched his disciple with the pills. The messenger, however, %at- fond of a game pf billiards, and conld not resist the t^mptatipn of- going into one of the billiard -roeipa and playing a game. When __> fiorphcd, he found to his chagrin, that jOto pills had 'disappeared from tbe place in which he bad put tbeca. It would never do to go back and get another box, as that wonld. necessitate a confession ofthe delay, so be bit npon a plan that turned oat to tho_aatie(actl<__ of all parties concerned. He went to his mother, got some bread, and rolled, it into pills, giving theae ■tipier ;is\\i£ _jdur . "He then tj>ok them; to hia master's patieqt, pleased to bave got out of the difficulty for the time. • When the doctor next .visited his |alient be aeked Whether the pills b^^one ,ahy;.gobd, T snd was . at once assured that she had never taken aoy medicine that bad done. her so much good, and that she felt " ever st much better."" We have not learnt what were tbe thoughts of the young manufacturer of the pills, bat it will not be difficult tb guess. A complaint is made by an Amerioan contemporary, whicb is not altogether peeolisr to that conntry. The practice of educating boys for the professions, which are already overstocksd, or for the' mercantile business, in which statistics show that ninety.five in a hundred fail of success, is fearfully on the increase in this eonntry (says our eon temporary). Americans are annually becoming more and more averse to manual labor, and to get a living by one's wits, even at the cost of independence and self-respect, and a fearful wear and tear of conscience, iB the ambition, of alarge proportion of our yonng men. Tbe result is that the mechanical professions are becoming a monopoly of foreigners, and tbe ownership of the floest farms, even in New England, is passing from Americans to Irishmen and Germans. Fifty years ago a father was not ashamed to put bis son to the plough or to a mechanical trade, ;but now they are "too feeble? for bodily labor. Oae has a pain in.his side, another a slight cougb, another "a very delicate cdbstttution," another is nervous ; and so poor Bobby or Billy or Tommy is sent off to the oity to measure tape, weigh coffee, or draw molasses. It seems never to occur to their foolish parents that moderate mann ual labor in the pqre aad bracing air of the country is jnst wbafc • tbese pony, wasp-waisted lads need, and that to send them to tbe crowded and unhealthy city is to send tbem to tbeir graves. Let them follow the plough, swing tbe sledge, or shove tbe foreplane, and their pinched cbests wili be expanded, their sunken cheeke plumped ont, and the lungs, now i* cabineJ, cribbed, and confined," will bave room to play. Their nerves will be invigorated with their muscles, and when they shall have cast off tbeir jackets, instead of being thin, paie, vapid coxcombs, they have spread oot to the size and configuration of men. The advice is substantial, bot is not relished in the quarters for whicb it is intended.