GOOD-BYE TO ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 5

GOOD-BYE TO ENGLAND.

HEAVY STREAM OF EMIGRANTS. By t'clesra-uLi—Psess Association-CopyriEht (Rec. May 1, 10.15 p.m.) London, May 1. Three thousand five hundred emigrants aro sailing for Canada. A special Australasian express with the largest party of emigrants on record left yesterday. Emigration to Australia, according to the London correspondent of the Syd ; ney "Daily Telegraph," is . becoming a question of transport. Tho people, ho continues, are here, Australia has work and opportunity for them, and appears ready to make them welcome. What we want now are the ships; to carry them. Tho position is not discouraging; bat still it is highly vexatious. For some years all those hero who have worked to interest the British peoplo in Australia struggled against the worst lcinds of obstacles. They talked Australia to a British public, which was amazingly ignorant and indifferent about our southern country, and they, did their work in the face of powerful opposition from a great section of the Australian people. And now, having awakened the dull furicsity of tho Mother Country, and' having seen the Australian opposition almost flicker out, they aro faced with tho fact t'hat thev cannot bridge the waters between the land that wants "the people and the people who want to go. It is disappointing in the extreme. . . . We now have some thousands of people who have been attracted by specific offers advanced by the Commonwealth and the Agents-General, unable to get shipping accommodation. Large numbers of these will bo lost even after they have been definitely acceptcd, and if the present position continues thousands of eligibles will be turned aside. Two courses are open. Either the States should provide shipping accommodation, and send out tho people promptly after they are approved, or else the present advertising campaign should be slackened. The latter step is one which no sane Australian can contemplate. It would bo disastrous to the whole credit of the Commonwealth, and would affect us far beyond the question of immigration.