HIGH-CLASS IMMIGRATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume xvx, Issue 228, 25 September 1880, Page 4

HIGH-CLASS IMMIGRATION.

A new experiment has been made in immigration, and we shall be curious to • see wbat success attends it. A distinguished, general officer. Sir John Bissef, -has started for the Cape of. Good Hope with a party of young men,! whom he proposes to initiate into the ways of the colony. ; The novices; like: their leader, belong to the upper classes, : and are mostly. r young men of good, family, who take 'with tbem to their; new home a fair amount of capital, in addition to a.good education, and a fair amount of muscle and pluck. They will have/ moreover, the advantage of ihe advice and experience of a veteran soldier, who has known the Cape almost li from childhood; , Sir John Bisset: "began life in the Commissariat Department, from- -which, for his personal gallantry during early Kaffir wars, he obtained a cqramission in .the Cape Mounted Rifles. ...In this he served, always with distinction, until, thirty years later, he became a major-general. During that long period lie must have learnt the whole country by heart;- An indefatigable and fearless sportsman, he has himself recorded his adventures after big game in an interesting and modest volume, whicii appeared a )few .yearfe' ago. He is of a genial and kindly nature, still extremely active in habits, and with practical common-sense. A man of this 5 kind, as he does, moreover, high military rank, is just the person .to command the respect and devotion of a number of English lads, and we may expect to find that his little party will, 1 within, a- short time, be well started as' colonists on their own account. , . -

J jki'GRATION FROM YORKSHIRE. I Although reports from the Aotipodjei are not encouraging, end there is reason to suppose tbat the grent wave jo depression has .reached them wbibl swamped us at home, there is increased eagerness among agriculturists to betake- themselves to new lands. Th« farmers of Lincolnshire, as we know some time sinoo despatched two delegates to New Zealand, who have re turned with much enoouragement fbi those who sent them. Now a similfei movement has been set on foot ie Yorkshire, where bad harvests havt produced much distress amorjg the emigrant class. A. large meeting was held at Wskefield last week io order to discuss the question, end tlje unanimous conclusion wastbat emigration was almost the only course left open to tbe Yorkshire farmer if hie wished to avoid the workhouse. English farmers have, ho doubt, substantial grievances just now. Tbe climateyhaf long foughtragaiost.them, tbeir: tenurt of land is not always equitable, anid tbey have suffered, heavily : from external competition, especially in stocß end grain. Tbe present crisis probably marks a period of transition, and withita a very few years we shall have. 1 great changes in< our agricultural- systenj, The land will be more devoted to fruit and market-gardens. Already a few sharp-witted faamers in tt>9-neighbor-hood of large towns have done ,weU if this way. There is a £rfeat opporjtunity, too, for the development ;-ojl dairy, produce and poultry raising. Ab -enterprising man near ij Nqrwjch 'mas) bave made a fortune by this j tinbe iii breeding turkeys for r ; the London market ; and tbere.are abundant openj ings for all those who effer to supply us with good butter, milk, and eggs, j