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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1241, 6 January 1883, Page 2

Commenting on Mr Sheehan’s reply to the statement of Mr Arthur Mills, the “ Timaro Herald ” says “We do not suppose Mills will care a pin for him or his letter ; but it will be a very bad thing for New Zealand if such an indecent effusion should get into print at Home. The public will naturally conclude from it that a community who make Ministers of men capable of such a production must themselves be literally the lowest of the low. It seems that the Bishop of Waiapu, who travelled with Mr Mills on his visits to the Lakes, now denies the accuracy of Mr Sheehan’s account of the journey. We are not at all su-prised to hear it. We never believed a word of Mr Sheehan's story, and we venture to predict that on enquiry his letter will turn out to be as devoid of truth as it is irrelevant, contradictory and discreditable in all respects.” Sir Julius Vogel has addressed a letter to the “ Melbourne Age” advocating assisted immigration for Victoria. He says : “ A German savant estimated that the value of each adult emigrant to the United States was £2OO. I recollect a discussion of this estimate at the Statistical Society one evening. The opinion prevailed that it waa not an excessive one. Indeed, who would rear, feed, and educate a human being to twentyone years of age for much lees ? Can you want a more profitable business than paying £l3 to bring out what is worth on landing £2OO. There is a strong feeling in this colony in favor of stimulating manufacturing industry and production. Whatever difference of opinion there may be as to the mode of doing this, no one can, I think, fail to see how greatly a country is strengthened by productiveness of all descriptions. Now, I would ask you, can you offer any more efficient aid to manufacturing industries than that of increasing the circle requiring supplies ’ A great deal too much is made of the contingency that the immigrants one colony imports may proceed to another. It is almost as great an undertaking for an immi- \ grant to seek another colony as for him to ' leave the old country for the first colony of his choice.”