THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5278, 23 February 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION.

(From the Home News.)

The steady increase in recent years of the flow of emigration to the Australian colonies is likely to be yet further aided by the knowlege that the Canadian labor ; market is overstocked. Very deplorable accounts are received of the condition of emigrants last arrived there. No employment is offered, and they are starving. - So great is the destitution; that charitable people have organised an emigrants’ home, where, at least, the new arrivals may find the shelter of a' roof during the bitter inclemencies of a Canadian winter. The glut is not only in the agricultural labor market, but there is no work for skilled mechanics and artisans. As the Canadian Government has taken steps to warn intending emigrants of the deplorable state of affairs, it is obvious that an additional impetus will thus be given to emigration elsewhere.' It seems not improbable that ere long the great tracts of rich country , in the Far West, to which Lord Dufferin referred in such glowing terms, must be opened up to new-comers, but this territory cannot be made immediately available to relieve the present great pressure in the old districts of the Dominion.