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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5096, 24 July 1877, Page 3

’ The Consul; in l London of the Sandwich Islands Government, Mr.' Manley Hopkins, writing in an English journal, speaks highly of those islands as a new field for emigration from the old country. He says “I have received aj despatch from the Foreign Minister at Honolulu, in which l am informed that he had ; returned from a careful examination on a Royal Commission of the island of Hawaii, the largest of that group, his duty being ■to report on the undeveloped* resources of that island. Mr., Carter proceeds to say : —‘ lam quite convinced that 10,000 European . families could ■ find happy and prosperous homes on that ! island, and that a very large' number of : East Indian or other field laborers could find profitable employment hr cultivating Coffee, sugar, and rice.’ In asking you to give currency' to, the foregoing I would add that, although emigration to ttie Sandwich; Islands may to many seem like journeying beyond the setting sun, the group can be reached in thirty days -from Liverpool'; "that . the Climate is healthy and beautiful; that 1 sugar'ahd rice of high class, can be produced almost indefinitely; that samples "of 1 Hawaiian cotton have been received here equal in quality to ‘ Sea Islands,’