CROWDING TO MANITOBA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1064, 6 February 1883, Page 3

CROWDING TO MANITOBA.

The Western exodus does not decrease. It is calculated that the emigration to America is 63 per cenj higher than last year. The agricultural depression is the probable cause of this, both farmers and laborers being anxious to leave an extraordinary capricious climate, and a country sorely tried by foreign competition Such is the growth of our Home population that we can well afford this constant stream outwards, more particularly as the bulk of it is no longer swallowed up by the United States, it being directed to another portion of the British Empire. Manitoba and the new province*' of Far West of Canada are those which attract such crowds of new comers. The advantages they offer in the shape of a prolific virgin soil, obtainable on the easiest rate::, are sufficient to induce the ambitious and industrious to settle there. Nor are other facilities wanting. The construction of a railroad at the rapid rate of three miles a day shows that the local authorities are doing their best to provide for all the passenger traffic. But in one respect the emigrants are badly off As has bean pointed oat by General

Lowry, no provision has yet been made

for their religious welfare, and the new territory is still lamentably deficient in English churches and English clergymen. These cannot be started for want of funds.

Although ihe two great societies —that for Propagating the Gospel and that for promoting Christian Knowledge are prosperous, they have many calls upon them. The good work if it is undertaken —as assuredly it ought—must depend mainly upon private enterprise.