EMIGRATION SCHOOLS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2826, 15 April 1882, Page 2

EMIGRATION SCHOOLS.

The necessity for special’ previous i (raining in those who are to seek their fortunes in.the, cplonies Js. ., fibiently insisted upon. Anyonb . r is' ! r ‘ : ;,supposed to:be fitted?for ygried 1 ’ struggle of life in a new; country—old. r or young, with or without handicraft ot trade. It is because so many start from England with this idea that most ofour colonies are inundated with idler’s • and -n freckless fold who have no particular’? knowledge, and who, while they may* ■’ be fairly educated, can turn theft 15 ” .hands to nothing . practical.. Iff , one . of the . brightest i novels , . of. .the’.' last decade, by name- “ Mamoine,’’, we are introduced to a; squires | spn who is bitten with the rage; for, exploring in Central Africa. < With:; him the passionate craviog--fof'BucceßßP* in his one hobby was so - great that ho.’ was at endless prepare himself for his work;. He eschewed the .shelter -' of his father’s house, and roughed it’ in ; ' the .open anywhere,he served’ ,an apprenticeship to all the various artisighs . on the estate, and learnt to shoe a bprae, to weld a bar, use a jack rplane, :as:, .well as- cook food or make his:own - bed-..;;. Something of the kind was-attempted..; by the immortal Mr Micawber, who fed his offspring out of pannikins and took them into the;’ London highways ! to' - accustom them to - driving cattle. A more recent discipline in the same school is a retired officer, who, being about ’ (o' Tstfirtf his fsdfl,s:in? /Manitoba, trained thena-first to all! kinds .of, agricultural pursuits in a' good farming country. They ! were thus scbboled in every detail of husbandry, and directly they’ arrived, in their’ new ‘hbihea jliby were ready 1 to pPrfprm allthe 'duties of r the, emigrant farmer .‘y-" jSome'Neilvs.^^