AFFAIRS IN BRAZIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1900, 4 June 1889, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN BRAZIL.

A former New Zealand settler, now in Brazil, writing to a friend in Auckland, gives a very dolorous account of the state of affairs there as a field of British emigration. He states that the country is on the brink of civil war, a large number of the inhabitants being dissatisfied with the rule of Don Pedro 11, and desirous of having a republican form of government. It is alleged that Paraguay and Bolivia are likely to come to blows, so he concludes things are not all inviting to any Britisher to settle in any of the cities of Brazil, or in any of the southern republics. An English Company has bought a huge block of land in the centre of the province of Paran, and are bound by contract to settle it with 10,000 Eurolean immigrants. This he regards as a cheerful outlook for the latter, judging from the concluding portion of his letter“ The New Zealanders, even the poorest of them,have no reason to turn their backs on New Zealand. I would prefer a dish of oatmeal mash in New Zealand to a plate of beans and maizemeal in Brazil. New Zealanders, stop where you are; no other place under God’s sun can offer you the same advantages you possess already. It is safer to possess little in New Zealand than to own much in Brazil, and better to be a working man there than a small landlord here. Only one who has had the misfortune to seek in other countries what he has left behind him at his reach can fully realise the old adage about going further and faring worse. I count myself among the latter class, and will yet try to come out and die in New Zealand.”—New Zealand Herald.