PAUPER EMIGRATION' FROM: ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 223, 21 September 1888, Page 2

PAUPER EMIGRATION' FROM: ENGLAND.

|While the organisation represented by Mr Baton, the emigration, agent now in New Zealand, has not in it any element; of. dan., ger to these, colonies, but'rather the reverse, there" are movements..' going, on in England which, may result in the starting of a systematic export of paupers to such coloniea as are1 fatuous enough to l'eceive them. A few --months ago a deputation from the Coloniea tion As- ! Bociation ,! waited upon '■_„_A Lord,..,', Salis '- ■ bury, i and "urged a petition ' that the Govern men b ( should guarantee interest at, the riito of 3 per i cent, on the oapital to be subscribed to enable tho oystetiiatic emigration <o_ large numbers of the- poorer classes to the colonies.,. The Prime Minister, however, remirided the members that the colonies had for the .most' part..expressed their unwillingness to become.parties to the soheme of the Association, and ho dismissed the deputation without holding..;; oub .any, hope of / their wishes being acceded to. Yet .the;. County Government (England) Bill -A introduced, bj Lord Salisbury^ Government contained a eub-seotion empowering. Coubby Council! to: borrow money for tbo purpose of proriiobirig the Emigration df tho4& who are likely to become.paupers. When,, this, was diso^ssodiutheHouse'of.Comirioris^oirietitne ago, ib■='was very - naively admittedrby a, menibor that " there was muoh. more economy in sending pauper? pub te-the colonies than in Keeping .. them for ,a long period in workhousas: or wprklioqse sohodls," The upshot of tho dli-1 eussion seams to b*v«' bean that on amendment proposed by Mr Ritchie, President of the Local Ge^wnmenti. _ ,ea 'w> was earried,bo th!© fdjlowiuff isffed-s~'*Thi| the oei*nby qonnbila shall pe. empovowl to borrow* money for making ftdvaripaa" iwald ot the emigration of Inhabitehta of tho qounby, with a guarantee for repayineht frots' any looal au.tbprlty, iri the,' e ©tinty■;' or the "Governmentof any c010..^,!' /This may be found workable, .bub/the difficultly; of guarantee will probably prevent my ex.en*'

Siva emigration taking place. If those colonies that desire am influx of population could be satisfied that the immigrants were likely to prove useful colonists, it might bo worth, their while' to givo the required guarantee; but while the monetary engagement would be definite and binding, it would not be easy to make tho guarantee of. tho health and character of the immigrants equally so. Theso facts go to show, however, that thero is a powerful and persistent party in England who View the colonies as the proper receptacle for England's weaklings and failures, and when it is remembered that tho population of <_ reat Britain increases at the rate of a thousand per day it will be seen at once what proportions pauper emigration might assume wera it .started. ■.- 'y. Ay '-.