ENGLISH MIDDLECLASS EMIGRATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH MIDDLECLASS EMIGRATION.

To the Editor of the "Evenistg Mail." Sib,—Being on my way to England with a view to influence a better class of emigrant New Zealand-wards than usually finds its way there, I shall be glad if you will allow me space to solicit from those of your readers who have properties to dispose of a full description with price of the same. I wish to see British skill and capital brought to bear on your only half cultivated hills and valleys; and unless I am mistaken in my estimate of the present position of many of the English agriculturists, it will not be verv difficult to induce some of them to try their fortunes in the England of the Pacific. But the British farmer is a ponderous being to move, and it will be necessary to put before him a very clear course iu order to induce him to enter upon it. My case is simply this :—-In England, owing to the great advance in wages and the low price of corn, the small agricultural capitalist finds himself too heavily handicapped. His one or two thousand pounds capital is wholly insufficient to enable him to avail himself of those scientific aids, without which no English tenant farmer can possibly hold his own against the world's competition. What I propose suggesting to him therefore is this :-Take your practical skill in agriculture and your small capital to New Zealand, where you can buy good land for about your present rental, and where your capital, wholly inadequate at home, arill enaDle you te quietly work your way up to a good degree of social comfort and respectability. Id the carrying out of this purpose I shall, aa I before binted, require something definite

to put before these men, and hence my request. Communications may be addressed to me 1 "to care of P. W. Clayden, Ksq., 13, Tavistock Square, London." I remain Sir, yours faithfully, Arthur Clayden. On board the Chimborazo, off Adelaide, May 19th, ]879. P.S.— I should feel obliged if other New Zealand papers would copy this letter and post me their advertisement sheets.