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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4579, 23 November 1875, Page 2

Writing to the Under-Secretary for Immigration from Wootton, England, under date August 16, 1875, Mr. Holloway says Of course you are aware that I am engaged hy the Government to lecture upon emigration to New Zealand. I am visiting the various counties, and by lectures and other means doing all I can to promote emigration to the colony of New Zealand. We are not receiving so many applications just now, in consequence of the harvest and of the abundance of work there is just now ; but from all I can hear and learn, as soon as the harvest is secured we shall bo receiving a great number of applications for New Zealand. The numerous encouraging letters coming Home to England by every mail to persona having friends in the colony, and who speak in the highest terms with regard to the prosperity of the colony, are exerting a great influence upon the minds of those they have left behind in England, and will

undoubtedly influence many more to emigrate to that 1 good laud. Of course there are some few disappointed individuals in New. Zealand as well as other countries, and occasionally we receive a letter from some of these ne’er-to-do-well gentlemen, giving a very gloomy prospect of the colony to intending emigrants, and doing all they can to hinder emigration to the colony. We have had a Mr. McPherson, who styles himself president of the Working Men’s Association in Canterbury, over here lecturing in different places against emigration to New Zealand. Of course his name is well known to you ; and X need not say that his meetings here have been of a very uproarious character, as you will see from a report ot one of his meetings which was sent to a Mr. J. G. S. Grant, in Dunedin. This Mr. Grant has seen fit to publish a letter in the Banbury Guardian, in which he corroborates Mr. McPherson’s statements in a very great degree with regard to the prospects of the colony, giving a very woeful description of the manner in which the emigrants are treated at the barracks ; he attempts to show that the emigrants get demoralised out there ; and he also denounces the existing Government in no very measured terms, as you will see from two papers which I have forwarded to you by this mail, one of which contains his letter corroborating McPherson’s statements ; also another letter which he wrote to the Scotch papers, entitled “ A Voice of Warning to New Zealand.” You will see in his letter that he speaks very ungentlemanly with regard to my own visit to New Zealand, to which I have replied in the other paper I have enclosed. Of course these men do a large amount ot harm to the cause of emigration, simply because they get so many to believe them instead of paying attention to the many encouraging accounts which are constantly reaching England from sober, industrious, persevering individuals. I just mention these facts to show that we have something to battle with here in advocating the cause of emigration ; but we have no cause for fear in the long run. There are too many of the right class in the colony who are doing well, and whoso testimony to the prosperity of the colony will counteract the injury and harm which the above gentlemen seeks to do to the colony.”