ME HOLLO WAY'S FAREWELL.

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1838, 19 November 1874, Page 6 (Supplement)

ME HOLLO WAY'S FAREWELL.

(From the Southern Cross.)

To the Editor : Sir,—As I shall be leaving the colony in a few days for England, will you kindly allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to tender my hearty and cordial thanks to the inhabitants of the Colony in general, and to the General and Provincial Governments in particular, by whom everywhere I have been accorded such a hearty welcome, and provided with every facility for carrying out the great object for which I came out to JNew Zealand. That object was to ascertain from personal observation the advantages held out by the Colony as a suitable field for immigration from England, or settlement of some of the hundreds of the toiling masses of my fellow-countrymen, who are underpaid and underfed, and who are really anxious to improve their circumstances by removing to more suitable fields of labour where their services will meet with a fair and proper remuneration. Perhaps few individuals have had such means placed within their reach for acquiring a general knowledge of the Colony as myself. lam indebted to the Governments for these favours. I have been under their direction and control. All my movements have been directed by either the General or the Provincial authorities; but while they have provided the means they have not sought to unduly influence my mind in favour of any particular part of New Zealand, but have left me to draw my own conclusion from my own observations. Now that my tour is accomplished, I take this opportunity of publicly acknowledging, through the Press, that I have formed a very high opinion of New Zealand, taken as a whole, as a most suitable field for the settlement of the sober and industrious farm labourers of my own country. New Zealand wants no colouring, no puffing up. Its genial climate, its fertile soil, its salu- | brious air, its large mineral resources, its magnificent scenery, and its civil and religious institutions, are alone sufficient to recommend it as a most desirable locality in which to settle down. As my mission is not so much to impart information as to collect it, I think it wise to reserve my report upon New Zealand till I reach England. I shall there meet my constituents face to face. I shall endeavor not to betray the confidence they have reposed in me as their delegate. I shall represent to them simply—but faithfully and honestly, and forcibly—the opinious I have myself, as a practical man, j formed as to the inducements and advan- , tages held out by this Colony of New Zealand as a suitable field for settlement of men of the right class —the sober, the industrious, and the persevering, Without trespassing further on your space, I desire only to add that I shall ever look back with feelings of very great pleasure to the nine months I have spent in New Zealand.

0. HOLLO^AY.