THE TE AROHA SETTLERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1475, 15 December 1881, Page 3

THE TE AROHA SETTLERS.

Tite party of special settlers brought out by Mr E. Y. Cox arrived in Auckland on Monday by the Arawata from Melbourne. They. were entertained at a soiree by the Auckland Young Men's Christian Association .on Monday evening, and at the sub^uent meeting, Mr Cox, in thanking the chairman for the kindly welcome extended to the party, is reported to have said :— -He was well pleased while aboard ship to receive the communication fiom the secretary of the institution announcing the interest that was taken in the new settlement. He might say that their present number was only an instalment of the settlement. The piimary object Mas to establish a Christian community. A number of friends were coming out in a sailing ship— the Wellington. He had, with a view to avoid any possible complaint hereafter that results did not come up to expectations, conceded to the wish of several who desired to join, that they might do so, but they would be at liberty to withdraw if events did not answer their wishes. These included some heads of families, some young working men, laborers, and mechanics. They had heard of depression in New Zealand, but they saw no sign of it. There was nothing like the squalor and misery that were to be seen in the towns of England. After several other gentlemen had spoken, Mr J. T. Johns, a well-known former resident of Hamilton, who lias come out with the party, said that alter twenty-one years' residence in New Zealand, he went to England for a holiday. JUe often walked through London with an aching heart that so many thousands of human beings could not obtain the necessaries of life. ~ When he fell in with Mr Cox he had much pleasure in giving him the benefit of what experience he (Mr Johns) possessed. He believed that the result would be satisfactory to both parties. He could assure the meeting he felt an enthusiasm in the Christian work before him, and in the prosperity of the settlement Four of the party, Messrs Cox, Johns, Cavell (Mr Cox's manager), and Knight, arrived in Hamilton yesterday, and will proceed to the Aroha to-day.