ADVICE TO NE'E-DRO-WELLS.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1749, 11 August 1874, Page 3

ADVICE TO NE'E-DRO-WELLS.

;J^» Editor of the New Zealand HandJSooP warns ne'er-do-wells from our shores in the v following terms :r-r~ ■

Let it not bethought that for all persons New Zealand is a suitable home. It is a land of plenty to the colonist who can do work such as the Colony requires, or who can employ others'to do such work for him. But it is no suitable home for those who cannot do work or cannot employ workers. The mere ability to read and write is ho sufficient justification for a voyage to New Zealand. Above all let those be warned to stay away who think the Colony a suitable place to repent of evil habits., The ne'er-do-well had better continue to aponge on his relations in' Gjeat Britain, thau to hope he will find sympathy for his failings and weaknesses: in a land of strangers ; strangers, moreover, who are quite sufficiently impressed with the" active and hard realities life, and who, being the architects of their own fortunes, have no sympathy to throw away on those who are deficient of self-reliance. This warning, is not altogether uncalled j for. It is astonishing how many people are sent to the Colonies to relieve their friends of their presence, no heed apparently, being given to the fact that these countries are not at all deficient in temp-: tation to evil habits, and that those who are inclined to such habits had muchbetter stay away. An instance not long since came under the writer's notice; A wealthy settler received a letter from an English gentleman of whom he had not before heard.. The writer explained that his acquaintance with a mutual friend induced him to write and introduce his son,; the bearer, who was visiting New Zealand for the purpose .of ■ettling there. He was sorry to say his son had not been successful in anything he had tried. He had to give Tip the army, and was so very weak and easily persuaded, that it was hopeless to put him- to anything in England. The writer' would, he said, be content, if the gentleman he was writing to would give his son a home and £100 a year till he could do something better. The young gentleman who presented this letter at once intimated that a loan of £10 would be acceptable. lie received it. The day was Saturday ; on the Monday following he called again for a further loan—the first £10 was gone. He was naturally denied, and the next intelligence of the young hopeful our settler received was an order for the payment of a considerable debt. Such prodigals are not suited to the Colony. It would be better to kill the fatted calf on their account, without any intervening absence.