A FOREIGNER AND VICTORIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5290, 9 March 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

A FOREIGNER AND VICTORIA.

| As'ah iiidicaUqh, oL the' state ;of .'.conti-. iieiitiff.hnqwledge’to.iichiug: the colony of Victoria, the following translations of extracts from;'aflutter.in Nrenohy; recently, Addressed by a Swiss gentleman', to; Mr. blichiejare riyt without interest;—“ Monsieur;—ln 'consequence of a request addressed fiby’me -to : the; English.. Minister for the Colonies,’hoJias/iri'ans'Wer, done mo,.the, hpiipr to recommend mq to, put. myself in cb’mniiuicatibnjwith you for the purpose ,of ipy ‘ obtaining)..information touching, jthe, colq.hybf in particular, I therefore have to beg that; you will be so good as to take into consideration the following questions I have the honor to submit to you : —lst. The social State of Australia; does it promise sufficient guarantees against the : spirit of Socialism, of which at the present day we have to complain of iir America ? The; jbeople, are they sufficiently civilised to entertain a respect for „property '? 2. How is the climate I!, Ts.it,., as/they say, equal to that of the south of, Italy? ■ The country, is it wooded, and.fit for the cultivation of the vine'and pf fruit trees ? 3. The raising of cattle i;ris it a profitable business, and what is the ordinary price of a cow? The manufacture 1 of 1 butter and cheese ; is it I ‘carried oh'after dur best systems ? Have they bees, arid artificial forage, and do they grow tuberous plants, and at what price cam a fanner's country house be built? Have they agricultural instruments,and wbuldit bp botterto getthem there or take them from Europe ? 4. Are comfortable lodgings to be had there at a reasonable price?” A long string of other questions follow, from which it would appear that the writer is a gentleman of capital contemplating emigration to Victoria, taking with him a number of vine-dressers arid other laborers. Ho concludes by‘requesting an answer in French or German. We learn that the Agent-General, doubtless recognising him as an unusually desirable addition to the colony, lias sent him a very full answer in French, and also copies of Mr. Hayter’s Statistics, and the German version of the Land Act of 1869.—Exchange.