AN IRISH VIEW OF NEW ZEALAND PROSPECTS

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 325, 13 June 1874, Page 2

AN IRISH VIEW OF NEW ZEALAND PROSPECTS

The Tyrone Independent of the 26tb Eebrutry, in a leadinj article states :— " We are of those who recognise the grea national importance of emigration, and look with feelings o pride and the deepest interact upon thote distant depen dencics of Great Britain just now issuing into vigorous life and which more than ever prove that this indomitable enter prising spirit of our forefathers which, under Providence has raised our country to the fiist among the nations of the earbli, is still to be found in their descendants, and that whri the tune comes, should it erer come, they will be found ready, able, and willing to take a prominent part in thq world's history. Of oil the oolonies of Great Britain we feel the aflfipction lor New Zealand : she is the mos| distant, and she is the joungest, but she is also the fairest] she has linn serious internal difficulties in the shape of troublesome disputes with the natives to contend with, but she bus come gallantly out of th» struggle ; md now, were she only to ask fuir play, we ventuie to predict that, with her boundless resources, h<r immense mineral wealth. and her unequalled climate, she \» ill soon rival and pass her older sisteis. New Zealand's great and cning want v, more people — umre bone and muscle to carry on the great woike commenced by her Government — more people to assist in the oidn.nrj agncnltural operations of the country, now almost at a standstill for want of labourers, and more people to go upon and occupy those large tracts «f magnificent land now being open<d up for settlement. Unfortunately for New Zenlund, the gentleman who now represents lier interest as her Agent-General seeno remarkable only for his supineness and innctivity, nnd instead of fostering emigration, bo fnr ns the North of Ireland is concerned (and *c challenge any part of the empire to produce a finer class of men or women thnn are to be found in the North of Ireland) lie seems positively to place obstruction in the nay of those anxious to proceed to New Zealand. A mmber of our readers aie aware that a gentleman of some standing in this country entered into negotiations with the New Zealand G-overnment through Mr Furnell, i»ho was then acting for them as their agent in the North of Ireland, to secure a large block of land for the purpose of forming at Auckland, Ne d Zealand, a special settlement of friends and neighbours from the North of Ireland. The Agent-General was. appealed to, in the first instance, but gave no encouragement) to the scheme. Mr Farnell then took the matter up on his own responsibility, and carried it through successfully. * * * * We -nish the scheme «Tery success, and trust that this rather high-handed, not to say autocratic conduct, will in no way imperil what at one time bid: fair to be of great benefit, both to the colony itself and to those taking part in the undertaking."