BUENOS AYRES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5342, 11 May 1878, Page 3

BUENOS AYRES.

(SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO PEESS AGENCY.) Buenos Ayres, Jan. 30. The event of the day has been the death of Adolfo Alsima, Minister of War. He was one of the moat capable men in the Republic, and his services in organising a system of frontier defence against the encroachments of the cattle stealing Indian can hardly be over-estimated. The prospects of the Argentine Republic are most flattering. The great drawback of the country hitherto has been revolutions. The last two, however, have been so promptly suffocated by the Government that it has quite taken the spirit out of the most turbulent of the factions. The Mitre revolution was a most formidable one, but it was finished in 40 days. Tho 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 immigratioh is fully recognised here. Tho city is healthy. ■ The drainage works were begun bn too elaborated scale, and are unfortunately stopped for want of funds. They are on a scale of magnificence suitable for cities like London and Paris; but quite beyond tho means of Buenos Ayres. Of course they will bo pushed through in course of time; but meanwhile we are in great fear of a repetition of tho terrible yellow fever of isro.' " ■/"' V During the month of December last the .National Labor Office found employment for 1255 immigrants, 706 of them as farmers, 278 for city work, 319 as sheep farmers, and:the

remainder were sent to different! colonies and 'plantations on the Parana Kiver;~and in the ; interior.’ "Most of the immigrants are Italians, and next come Spanish, IVi nob,;.Germans, Swiss,Trish, and English. There are three English newspapers in this city. The Standard, devoted to the Irish sheep-farming interest, is thoroughly Irish ; the Herald is edited by an American; and is a very conservative and oiutious paper ; the Southern Cross, which is edited-by_ an Irish priest, is what might be expected, in consequence. The city is intersected by tramways in every direction, and all parts are thoroughly accessible. The, President is deservedly very popular. ' The English community hereisphilo-Turkish, but the native Argentines from the Euasias