BACK FROM AMERICA. HOW NEW ZEALANDERS HAVE FARED. Auckland, May 8.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 367, 11 May 1889, Page 3

BACK FROM AMERICA. HOW NEW ZEALANDERS HAVE FARED. Auckland, May 8.

A Wellington citizen, named Taylor, who returned from America by the Zealandia, in conversation with a Stak reporter yesterday gave some rather staithng information regaiding the condition ot working people in that great centre of population, more especially as ie atlected a large number ot JNew, Zealanders who went.there in the hope of bettering themselves. Mr Taylor went to Cahioinia to see whether he could do any business in the lumber trade, and he has loturned disappointed. He found that it was not v possible to do more than little or nothing owing to the farreaching influence of syndicates and trusts. Moreover, he &ays, there was very little doing. He saw two hundred New Zealanders, who had emigrated from this colony because of the dull time3, and every man of them wished himself safely back to the Britain of the South. Unfortunately, their luck had been so bad that few of the number could obtain the wherewithal by which to pay their passages. Two young fellows who held farms at Whangarei, and sold them to try their fortune in America, also came back by the Zealandia, only too pleased to be once more in New Zealand. Our informant mentioned another instance, in which a Canterbury gentleman who had been vainly endeavouring to court the Cloddess of Fortune under the Stars and Stripes for nine years, had returned to his Southern home. In Los Angelos, he says, there were four thousand unemployed people walking about the streets, and the Salvation Army were doing a most necessary relief work there. The Army had large tents erected, and were receiving donations and dispensing aid as far as pos&ible. They provided beds for three or tour hundred people every night, and gave tnem some food also. One New Zealander who left this colony with £6,000 had tried his luck in New York, Chicago, and Los Angelos, and is now stranded at the last-named place, without a cont. Mr Taylor came across seven painters who went from New Zealand during last year, an 1 not one of whom had been able to find work. In San Francisco, he says, men were walking about idle in thousands. He caw more poverty there than lie had ever seen in New Zealand, and met fully 200 New Zealanders who wished themselves back home. A Wellington man, who gave up a billet worth £200 a-year to go to America, was found walking about in a destitute condition, and another young man, very well connected in this colony, was living on charity. Mr Taylor says that almost the whole of the passengers by the Zealandia are New Zealanders. who have been disappointed, and that those who remain across the water are cursing the day when they left these shores. The working hours are ten per' day, and Sunday is no day of rest. ' In Los Angelos there is no Sunday observance. During Mr Taylors stay there, there was, he says, scarcely a day in which a suicide was not recorded. He advises New Zealand workmen, and j especially carpenters and painters, to remain where they are. Soft-goods men are also wise to remain here, for many of their fellows who went to America with saloon tickets would now be only too glad to scrape up enough money for a steerage return. Germans and Chinese (Mr Taylor says) seem to do a great deal of tho work, and the Europeans have a very bad time generally.

Ib is good to put a bother away over night. Ib all straightens out in the morning. When is a lamp in" a window HLe a tombstone?— When it is setup for a late husband.