The Plate Country.

Evening Star, Issue 6842, 4 March 1886, Page 4

The Plate Country.

Sir John Hall, wiiting from England to Mr W. A. Murray, of Piako, says : “I was sorry to find from your letter of October last, which has just reached me, that New Zealand is likely to lose you. I congratulate you, however, on having Biet with a purchaser for your property. It is a very fine one; but if debt is to be piled up on the Colony in the manner recently proposed, the value of almost every property will go in taxation. , . . Speaking generally, I

think the I’late country is a better place for a young man to get on in than New Zealand. Tiro land, on an average, is cheaper ami bettor, and it is only half the distance to Europe. On the other hand, it is a less pleasant country to live in. The climate is good, but subject to much greater extremes of temperature than New Zealand. There arc not many English or Scotch of the working class. The chief labor is performed by Ilalgocs and Italians. The language generally spoken is Spanish. Foreigners arc generally fairly treated by the Government if they take care not to interfere in polities. But the (’lovcrnmont arc a-< improvident in matters of finance as some New Zealand Governments have been, and much more dishonest. Tnc English settlers whom I met with did not speak of the country as their home, but looked forward to a return to the Mother Country when they had made enough money to live comfortably tlicro. My general conclusion is that if I were a young man having to make money to live on, 1 would go to the Argentine Republic. If I bad money enough to live on comfortably, I would go to or stop in New Zealand. Many thanks for your kind inquiries as to my health, which is considerably improved. I shall bo heartily glad to lie in New Zealand again, which I hope will be next year. lam tired of England.’’