EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 4

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

The “European Mail says:—“Just now New Zealand seems to be in great favour amongst intending emigrants, and if Sir Francis Dillon Bell were only empowered to carry out a system of free or assisted emigration, we have no doubt that very many valuable additions would be made to the colony. Especially amongst the Agricultural elements is there a desire to begin life afresh in New Zealand. Recently Messrs. Miles Brothers, the agents of the Union Fire and Marine Insurance of New' Zealand in London, have been advertising for farmers and farm laborours to settle on the Te Aroha block of land, which was selected by the Lincolnshire delegates, Messrs Grant & Foster, and who have made terms with the Colonial Government for forming an English settlement there. The first party, as our readers are well aware, arrived in the colony last year. Messrs. Miles Brothers ere comissioned to send out another party of 150, and the applications have been far in excess for the number required. They will not all go in the same vessel but a goodly number we hear, will sail by the Easter-hill on March 25. Those who have mfney to invest are offered land, on eajy terms •of payment, at £2 to £3 per acre, while bona fide labourers and workmen will have a cottage and three acres of land provided for them, at a rent of £6 per annum, with the option •of purchase at a nominal price. We do not, however, see that this is any very great draw, since there are several parts of Scotland where a laborer pays -only from £1 to £2 a year for his cottage, and the sameamount for each acre of land. But judging from the letter which Air Grant has received .from Mr Cox, who took out the first •party, it is evident they are well pleased with Te Aroha and their prospects, and if it be true that the rich swamp land which abounds in the district can be turned into “ splendid agricultural land, without any very great expenditure on the part of the settler,” we may shortly expect to hear very encouraging accounts indeed of •the progress of the settlement, which we understand is only 42 miles by road and 70 by water from Grahamstown. In the fact that Messrs. Grant and Foster have decided to settle in the Colony themselves, the emigrants may see proof of the accuracy of the favorable reports which they have made on their return home. Mr Grant, we hear, has bought in all 17,500 acres of land at Te Aroha, besides exchanging his farm of 2000 acres in Lincolnshire with Mr Tooth, an old Australian, for an estate of 10,500 acres in Canterbury, with 12,000 sheep.”