Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 210, 3 September 1880, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1880.

„.(■, Messrs Grant and/FosTEu, the delegates sent' out by. the tenant farmers of Lincolnshire to visit and report upon Now Zealand as a field for immigrants of their class, appear to have formed a most favorable opinion of the colony 'and the , advantages it holds out to farmers of English experience with a small amount* of capital at their disposal. The concluding portion, of their report, in which they sum up in general terms the results of their observations, will be found on the fourth page, and from this it will be seen

that they strongly recommend the farmer who can scrape together from £1000 to £2000 to leave the old country and to make a home for himself in this part of the world ; if his fancy lies in the direction of raising live stock, to settle in the Waikato district, whose genial climate is specially favorable to an occupation of that kind, or, if he prefers agriculture, and has a family who would be useful to him on the farm, to try the more bracing South, not attempting too much in the way of acquiring a freehold at first, but renting land with a purchasing clause, and thus having hi 3 capital at command for the purchase of stock or the improvement of the land. There is a genuineness aud honesty about the tone of the report that must commend it to all who road it. The rose color with which writers on the colony and its capabilities are too prone to tint their comments is wanting, and those who may think of emigrating are seriously warned not to fall into the too common error that "by going to New Zealand they are stepping into a fortune." Against any idea of this kind a strong protest is raised, a d those who may think of leaving the home country for the colony are distinctly told that " steadiness and industry are necessary elements of success there as here," but the inducement is held out that in tbo new country these " are more suro of their reward." The report on the whole is a most sensible one, and is likely to have the effect of inducing many of the class that she most wants to make their homes in New Zealand, to their own advantage as well as to that of their adopted country.