SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS. (Per Press Agency.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1886, 13 May 1878, Page 2

SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS. (Per Press Agency.)

Buenos Aykfs, Junauary 30. The event of the day hero h.is been the death of Adolpho Alsina, Miuistor of War. lie was one of the most capable men in the Republic, and his services in organising a system of frontier defence against the encroachmonts of the cattle-ste.ilinix Indian can hardly be over-estimated. The prospects of the Argentine R-piihltc arc most flattering^ The great drawback of the country hitherto hna been revolutions ; the last two, however, have been so promptly suffocated by the Government, that it has quite taken away the spirit of the most turbulent of the factions. The Mitro Revolution was a most formidable one, but it was finished in 40 days. The Irish sheep-farmers are rapidly becoming a large, important, and wealthy community. The Government is behaving in the most liberal manner to all immigrants. They have land given them and are housed, and looked after on their arrival. The importance of immigration is fully recognised here. The city is healthy. The drainage works were begun on too elaborate a scale, and are unfortunately stopped for want of funds. They are on a scale of magnificence suitable for cities like London and I'aris, but quite beyond the means of Buenos Ayrct. Of course they will be pushed through in course of time, but meanwhile we are in great fear of a repetition of the terrible yellow fever of 1870. During the month of December last, the national labor market found employment for 1755 immigrants, 70G of them as farmers, 278 for city works, 319 as aheepfarmers, and the remainder to different Colonies and plantations on the Paiama River, and iv the interior. Most of the immigrants are Italuns ; next come Spanish, French, Germans, Swiss, Irish, and English. There are three English newspapers in this city— the " Standard," devoted to the Irish sheep farming interests, is thoroughly Irish, the " llerald " is edited by an American, and is a very

Conservative and cautious paper ; the " Southern Cros«," edited by an Irhh priest, is what might be expected in consequence. The city is interacted by tramways in tvery direction, and nil parts of it are thoroughly accessible. The President is deservedly very popul.ir. The English community here in philo-Turkish, but the native Argentines aro in favor of the Rusiians.