LETTER from MR. HULLOWAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 98, 12 April 1876, Page 4

LETTER from MR. HULLOWAY.

We (Wellington Argus) have been favored by the Under-Secretary for Immigration with the following letter, received by the last mail from Mr 0. Holloway:— Wootton, Feb. 9, 1876. Sm — Your letter of November 22nd is safe to band, as also the papers you were kind enough to forward. lam pleased to note that there is still a great demand for hands in the colony, at highly remunerative wages, and as the resources of the colony come to be opened up by railways and other public works I feel satisfied that the demand for good hands in the. colony will continue to be felt for many years to come. What I conceive to be the want of the colony now is for a steady stream of emigrants to flow in just; as the Colony will absorb them, so as not to overstock the market. The emigrants must, as we are doing now, be selected with great care, so that none but really eligible persons be sent out. Then, if this course continues to be pursued I feel persuaded that there need be no complaining on the part of thos3 persons in the colony. Friend Grant and Co. appears to have spared no pains in circulating the news of the meeting of so-called unemployed in Dunedin through the various papers in our country, but lam pleased to say that the influence they were intended to exert has. been in a great measure counteracted by the prompt measures taken by the Ageut-General at Home, by publishing the telegrams received in the House, at Wellington, together with the rate of wages paid in Dunedin, and the great fact that some 600 new arrivals were able to find ready employment in the province at the very time of the so-called meeting of unemployed at Dunedin. I have forwarded to you two papers by .this post, as well as some by the last maiU; You will see by these papers that I am giving lectures in every county in England. I am pleased to say that the3e .lectures are well attended, earnest attention is given to them, and the result is that by this means we are keeping New Zealand prominently before the attention of the British public* You will see by the Tonbridge paper that last week I was laboring in Kent. ;Our : meetjng in Ton* ridge will exert a great influence in its neighborhood. You will, see thai Mr Kennaway attended the meeting with me, and we had a 'very influential gentlemau of the town, T. Itard, Esq , in the chair. This week I am laboring in Wiltshire. Lsst night we bad a capital open-nir meeting at Bishopstone, near Salisbury. You will be surprised to hear that, notwithstanding the improved position in the condition of the laborers in Englaud, ' Btrong able-bodied laborers are' working in this country, for l ls and 12s per week. The average rate of wages is 12-3 for agricultural laborers in tbis county, and I was informed that at one village, named Broad Chalk, within two miles of Bishopßtone, the laborers are only getting 10i per week. Compare this state of things with the wages paid in' the -colony, and the advantages of the colony are at once apparent. Send me a Wellington paper monthly, so that I- may be kept. up to the mark as to how you are getting on. ■ Yours, &c , ; C. Holloway. C. E. Haughton, Esq.