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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 225, 25 November 1874, Page 2

We (Evening Star) learn that tho Colonial Government have promptly resolved to cut short the travelling of Mr. Holloway, the agent of the English Agricultural Unions. He has been directed to be in Wellington in order to return to England by the Halcione. Prior to his departure from Auckland Mr. Holloway wrote a farewell letter to the Weekly News in which he says :—“ Now that my tour is accomplished, I take this opportunity of publicly acknowledging, through the Press, that I have formed a very high opinion of New Zealand, taken as a whole, as a most suitable field for the settlement of the sober and industrious farm laborers of my own country. New Zealand wants no colouring, no puffing up. Its genial climate, its fertile soil, its salubrious air, its large mineral resources, its magnificent scenery, and its civil and religious institutions, are alone sufficient to recommend it as a most desirable locality in which to settle down. As my mission is not so much to impart information as to collect it, I think it wise to reserve my report on New Zealand till I reach England. I shall there meet my constituents face to face. I shall endeavor not to betray the confidence they have reposed in me as their delegate. I shall represent to them simply—but faithfully and honestly, and forcibly—the opinions I have myself, as a practical man, formed as to the ments and advantages held out by tlmi

Colony of New Zealand as a suitable field for settlement of men of the right class—the sober, the industrious, and the persevering. Without trespassing further on your space, I desire only to add tliat I shall ever look back with feelings of very great pleasure to the nine months I have spent in New Zealand.—l am, &c. C. Holloway.