IMMIGRATION FROM THE CAPE. To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2712, 27 March 1866, Page 6

IMMIGRATION FROM THE CAPE. To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

SiX, — "Would you, through the medium of your valuable paper, do me the favour of inserting a few remarks relative to the laying on of the barque 'Frederick Bassil/ with passengers, from Cape Town to Auckland, N.Z., and the time and trouble taken in the matter by a Mr. Cartwright, an old New JZoaland colonist, and a passenger by the above vessel. Mr. Oartwright, who has been residing in the Cape colony for the last six years, and has been gradually becoming poorer each year, through the great depression existing in all trade commerce, &c, &c, throughout the colony, resolved to dispose of his place and return to this country. To accomplish this object he endeavoured to get a vessel laid on direct, but there appeared to be no inducement whatever, all the shipowners refusing to send a vessel without a sufficient number of passengers offering. Mr. Cartwright, who rested neither night nor day, soon overcame all difficulties. He found numbers of his friends and neighbours ready and willing to go, providing they could be conveyed at a reasonable rate, and be fed according to the Government scale of provisions, Pc Pass, Spence, and Co., of Cape Town, offered the ' Frederick Bassil,' then on the patent slip undergoing repairs, and agreed to use despatch and render her ready for sea as quickly as possible. This put fresh life into the enterprising proposer of the scheme, and he spared no pains to further the wishes of so many suffering colonists. ' . I, as one of the passengers, feel much indebted to Mr. Cartwright ; and I mast say, I think, he well deserves the thanks of the whole of the passengers. I cannot conclude without expressing my sentiments as regards the captain, whom we were indeed most fortunate in sailing with. He was one of the kindest and most amiable of men ; he is a good navigator, and for seamanship he i$ unrivalled. I believe that he did his best in every way to render everybody comfortable, which he succeded thoroughly in doing, without I believe causing the slightest ill ■ feeling ntiongst any of the passengers towards hh»*i or causing any one of them a moment's regr <jt for having sailed with him. I wish him every success and prosperity, and hope and trust lie may have many more prosperous voyaees a«d give all his future passengers as much satisfaction as lie has undoubtedly done those of the fcaraue ' Frederick Bassil.' OjTE OP THE PaSSENGBBS. Auckland, March 23, 1866.