A HOME IN AUSTRALIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1091, 5 April 1883, Page 3

A HOME IN AUSTRALIA.

Under thia heading The Times prints an extract, which is worth reproducing, from a letter received by an Englis*- gentleman from a friend residing in Melbourne. Tt is explained that the colonial correspondent " has no interest to ex ggerate, aa he has retired from business, and employs no labour except that of domestic servanta." These particulars may not be sufficient to reveal his identity in the colony, but his remarks indicate bow keen is his attachment to the land of his adoption. He writes :•—'' Point out the folly of permitting the pick of English artisans to go to America where they help a foreign power, when England haß in Australia a land in every way equal to America, where every emigrant from England ia actually only the transfer of what is useless in one to where ib is mo-t useful and reproductive in another, because every man, woman and child landed in Australia is just another customer for Engli.h manufactures. Here there are hundreds of thousands of miles where the foot of a white man rievrr t.'od, rich fertile tracts of country that never paw a sheep or animal save kangaroos, land can be selected for 20s an acre near railways, and payment deferred for 20 years or more; wages—laborers on railways 7s to 8s a day, mechanics 10s to 15s up to 20s a day —all 8 hours. I have seen sheep sold for fid each, skinned of course ; beef 2d per lb; mutton, choioa jo.nts, id to 1£ I per lb ; flaur about Id per lb. Lsab year ve hid a drought, an! prices are higher. Look at. the frightful poverty in England. The multitudes in crowded die*, oarning miserable wages, seeing no sun, the very lfe wovke 1 out of them. Here, within 40 dayi' sail per Orient line, is the fairest ltnd un ler U-J.i'a sunj wlnre men will wo-k only 8 hours a day , where work begs "he worker, and wa»-s are high, and living cheap. Hundreds of cities could be planted ia Australia. We want meD, those very men who area trouble and a s mrce of danger to your overcrowded cities." A letter from Mr R B, Bridge, of Milden, E* ex, a rendent in Victoria for 30 years, has »l*o besm published, fully corrobora'ing the aSo?e statements, and offering soma very sensible advice to intending emigrants. He 'u particularly emphatic in warning them not to loiter about the cries, but to proceed as quickly as possible into the interior, where belter chances await thorn.