MANITOBA.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1301, 30 October 1880, Page 3

MANITOBA.

A 'Times' correspondent writing from personal experience of Manitoba, says : — "The emigrant will have no difficulty in tramporting himself and his impedimenta at a cheap rate to the Red River, or Selkirk settlement, now called Winnipeg. If he goes without capital, but with the sole object of making, determined to make, and be satisfied with, a home and a living — and none other in his position ought to go— he need not trouble himself as to how he is to export his superfluous produce. What he cannot consume he must sell on the spot or exchange for groceries, clothing, implements, and such other wants let him not dream of a fortune in money. I speak of and to our agricultural labouring population, who can barely make a living at home, and who may wish to emigrate. Thriftless, prejudiced, and unhandy with their tools and in all the other accomplishments of the backwoodsman as so many of them are, they yet have a prospect before them— to be acquired, however, only by hard labour— that few of their class can aspire to at home. The large farmer, capitalist, and land speculator had better go and reconnoitre the land for himself. The field is large and sufficiently tempting to the man with capacity for such work. I need only refer him to the letters of your own correspondent, and other accounts in your columns, of what has recently been done in the way of farming and land speculation. Large and small farmers alike must, however, bear in mind that they will be heavily weighted as against the producer in this country on all imported necessaries, such as groceries, clothing, implements, Ac.

The Agkicultubal Show at Cablisle. —Although it is impossible to give exact results as to the financial aspects of the late agricultural show at Carlisle, it is still possible, assuming the expenditure to have been upon a scale similar to that of recent years, to give approximate results. During the five days the show was open to the public, 91,741 persons passed the turnstiles, their entrance money amounting to £6744 Ids 6d, while an additional £34 was taken from the 272 visitors to the implement yard on the previous Saturday. The other receipts were as follows: — Season tickets, £700; grand stand and dairy, £450 ; and catalogue sales, £650 — bringing up the total receipts to about £8600. Should the expenditure not exceed that incurred in connection with the shows at Bristol, Liverpool, or Birmingham, the loss to the society will not be more than about £950. It may be of interest to add that on the occasion of the Carlisle Show twenty-five years ago the loss sustained by the society was £860. Then the yard was visited by 37,583 persons, the sum paid by them being £3686. Out of the forty shows held previous to tV.i* year the society has only made a profit on nine, the total gain on these having been £27,093, while on the remainder a totul loss of £73,093 the«e dhows having thus been £46,000, or, with this year's shov, about £47,080.

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