The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 77, 9 April 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

For the cause that looks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistasofc For the future in the distance. And the geod that we oan do.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1885.

Thb Premier is, we believe, still negotiating with Mr Macandrew for a visit to Scotland with the object of promoting an exodus of crofters to New Zealand. The member for Port Chalmers manifests great reluctance to accept the mission, his diffidence being heightened by his inability to converse in Gaelic, a very important qualification in dealing with inhabitants of the Isles of Scotland. The Government, we understand, desire these immigrants chiefly for the purpose of developing the fishing industry. They intend to locate them on ten-acre grants of land in suitable places along the coast. They also hope to enlist the sympathies of those landlords who are so anxious to get rid of their cottars in forming fishing companies here, to be worked by thecrofters. Theabundantandneglected "harvest of the sea," which the Colonial Treasurer has dilated upon with so much enthusiasm in recent speeches, will, it is believed, be thus gathered, and will help to swell the food supply of the colony and supplement its exports. That a vast and inexhaustible store of wealth lies undeveloped in the sea depths we know from the abundance of fish along the coasts and the experience of other countries. The salmon exports from California last year 4 were valued at the colonies of Australasia taking worth. The produce of the Canadian fisheries exported in the year 1881 (the latest for which statistics areobtainable)amountedto^i,s73,s43-One-half of this total was made up of dry salted cod. England was an importer of fish from Canada and Newfoundland to the value of There is, therefore, an assured market beyond the seas for all we can produce, besides lurnishing our poorly-supplied local markets with a greater variety of fish. .We hope the efforts of the Government to establish these fishing settlements will be crowned with success, and now that the Premier is in the North, his attention 1

should be drawn to the many bays along our coast which arc well adapted for the location of crofter liuniigratatK