Belgian Immigrants.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4516, 19 November 1884, Page 2

Belgian Immigrants.

(To the Editor.)

Sin,—ln this morning's "Herald's" report of' ■: the reception of M. dellarven by the Chamber Kg oJ Commerce.it is put in his mouth; rofenfinffW i wine culture, that although the- Belgians themselves were not experienced in it. skilled .> : French and German workmen could be intro 1 > duccil for the purpose. Whjvhas M. de Hasvfln - forgotten thelarge wine cultivation going onlor ht least 200 or 300 yenrs -on the borders or coast 9 pi tlip Meuse for not loss than 30 to 40 miles', , where the Belgians grew a light andflneßttr- % gundy, which is, perhaps, superior to the other . wines of which Germany is so much boasting J Why apeak about introducing ■ hop-growers' | from Germany when liofctam is growing the ■■■'.•■: finest hops in several provinces—when we can ' a soo the quotations o£ Alo3t and Popminfsne hops in every, mercantile Antwerp paper J_ I .'; applaud the suggestion of-Mr- Aickini that M. m de Hurven ought to examine the North of this, is colony carefully bofore coming to aay con-.i: plusion.- I suppose the abovo'mistakes are; to :- bo put down to a'reporter misunderstj*ndjng< ■■,:.■:• I keep atiU partly the papers of the «mi«irau6n sohemo projected by tho late Hon. J, William' " j son and myself some years ago, and which pro- . joot was' only interrupted by his untimely' H death; and they aro at the disposal of I£<.de.; m Harvenj . I wish tho beet success to Jitde : Harven's undortakinfr, and his success will tea the realisation of the wishes for which I h&ye . been working for Uio Inst ten or twelve yeara.-^ - ■ Yonrs, eto., O. DIEAtJ. ,; J s AuoUand, No«smberl9,"lßß(. • " '--■>' . . • ■ ' '- ■';■; '• -'iJ