A NEW COLONIST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 998, 31 August 1882, Page 3

A NEW COLONIST.

Referring to the removal of Mr Arkwright from Derbyshire to this colony, the Home News says : —New Zealand has so many inducements to offer settlers that it is a wonder more people ol the better or opulent classes do not emigrate there. It is universally admitted that its climate much resembles the best weather in these islands, that the soil is fertile, and the scenery lovely. One English gentleman, however, has the wisdom to benefit bp the many advantages offered by this new country. Mr Francis Arkwright, who was M.P. for East Derbyshire in the last Parliament, has, it is said, purchased an estate in Nsw Zealand, and intends to take up his permanent residence in that colony. The Arkwrights are an enterprising race. The founder of the family was the well-knowa inventor of the spinning jenny. Of humble origin—the son, in fact, of a barber in Derbyshire—Richard Arkwright had the natural gilts of * mechanical inventor, and his early years were passed in strenuous, but long time fruitless, efforts to apply machinery to the process of weaving. The success which ultimatsly crowned his efforts and the great fortune which followed them are matters of history. Chief among the sights of the beautiful vale of the Derwent is Willesley Castle, tbs family seat of the Arkwrights. Close by, worked by water-power, is the cotton mill of Cromford, the first mill ever built in this country, the forerunner of that important branch *f English commercial industry. The village of Cromford has sprung up by the mill, and there is something patriarchal in the beneficent rule of the Arkwrights in these parts, where they are greatly respected and sstsemed. No doubt Mr Francis Arkwright will win for himself the same position in his new home.

Strangled to Death. —Some children, it is reported by the London Standard, went to gather heather in Aberdeenshire, near a wood. Naturally, having been sent for the purpose of collecting ground growth, one of them climbed into a tree. He’ caught on a broken branch by the back of his jacket, and hung about six feet from the ground. His companions, two of whom where his brothers, made, it appears some attempt to disentangle the child, who was only seven yeats old ; but not succeeding they calmly desisted, and when their business in the wood was concluded, went their peaceful ways. It occurred to none of these kindly Scottish youths to mention the little incident of the tree, and when the father passed that way ou his way home from work some hour or two later he found his poor little Absolom hanging downwards strangled by the neck-bnttou of his jacket.