SUBSTANTIAL INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 287, 4 December 1874, Page 4

SUBSTANTIAL INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.

The New Zealand Herald says, referring, to Mexican immigrants :-— "We imeginef iiihat. we in New Zealand are liberal in our -offers of inducements to immigrants,. So we are — perhaps too liberal-— iiuik we cannot be, compared in the same breath with Mexico. In fact, if anybody will emigrate to Mexico, ibejiQan have anything they wish to sat- for, from bread and butter for twelve /months to their local selfgovernment. The Mexican Congress has passed * new law to encourage immigration, and baa appropriated 500,000doii to assist immigrants this year. They are to be carried at the expense of the Bepublio from the place of their residence abroad to tbe point of their destination ; provisions will be furnished them during their voyage j they will receive 9Odol. for their rapport during the first year, and if .they are dissatisfied at the end of tbe second year the Jtepubliq will pay their tray back to their . native country. When fifty families or more settle in one Colony, they may- constitute a municipal corporation, elect their own officials, and adopt ordinances for their local government not inconsistent with the State or Federal laws. Their laod^ are to be free from taxes (except municipal taxes) for five years, and all ineirjtroviflions, tools, and material for houses, shall be imported free >of duty, and ahy'Veeflel .bringing more than ten immigrants sbalfcje Tfree from tonnage,, lighthoasef^fnclS^agev and pilotage duties, 1 irjDQjigranxa are declared citizens froro the moment of their artivalj ani^iey eDJoy all the political and *civiU rights ..of native citisens. Pfjblic lands will be set apart for them, an^l each man who desires to till the soil wjU::not receive. less than 1 10 acres, nor more than 1100 acres, which be can^euitivato without charge for tea yeara, and at the expiration of ibat period may purchase, either paying tbe full price down, or one-tenth annually for ten years more. Sites suitable for towns will be surveyed, and a lot will be offered to every immigrant, who, however, is not restricted to land now Wild, but may settle in any of tbe towns, cities; or agricultural or mining districts The law implies that the immigrant may follow any mechanical or laboring occupation, and we presume it intends to give tha same liberty to professions; but these are not mentioned."