The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2898, 14 May 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1888.

A special cable reports that the Local Government Board have granted assistance to the Board of Guardians of the Isle of Thanet for the purpose of enabling them to emigrate paupers to the Colonies. The Isle of Thanet is a poor district on the south-eastern coast of England, one of the many parts of the mother country in which poverty is painfully conspicuous. No doubt other Boards of Guardians will follow the example of the men of Thanet in obtaining aid from the Local Government Board, and a considerable impetus will be given thereby to pauper immigration. If the Colonies had only to find room for pauper immigrants from Thanet, there, would be little difficulty. The poor people of this Isle are seafaring men accustomed to boating and fishing, and would be likely to become speedily colonised, and to develop into a good stamp of colonist, The Colonies, homer, will probably have to relieve the poor housiji? of all parts of Great Britain, and this will mean the introduction of very many undesirable people. At present New Zealand is hardly likely to be affected by a pauper exodus from the mother country, partly because we arc supposed now to be in a somewhat bad way ourselves, and partly on account of distance. Gther neighboring colonies are likely to be less fortunate than we, and they must be prepared to receive a considerable influx of pauper labor. England has of late years made a great fuss over the Colonies, and feted distinguished colonists in an extraordinary degree. It is in the nature of things that such civilities should be paid for, and a portion of the price is evidently the duty of providing for the British pauper. The Colonies will have to take this new burden philosophically as they cannot put a poll-tax on pauper immigrants as they do on the Chinese. If their flesh aud blood choose to come' to them from England they will have to be taken in, and the best possible made of them.

The following notice of motion has been tabled by his Worship the Mayor: " That the sum of £3O be granted for a supply of water, the late fire plainly demonstrating the absolute necessity of an immediate supply of water for all parts of the Borough." Does Mr Kenall mean, we wonder, to argue that £BO will provide an immediate supply of water to all parts of the Borough, or is this amount to bg re-

gardcd as an instalment of some unknown and illimitable amount. We feel certain that the Borough Council would willingly vote five or ten times the sum Mr Renall asks for, if he would only submit his proposals in a proper form.