Untitled

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1062, 2 July 1869, Page 2

Writing on the subject of emigration, the Sydney Morning Herald remarks : — " We have spent more in bringing people from home than England in sending soldiers. We have spent millions for emigrants, and thus' relieved the surplus population, and aided their settlement in a new country : the account ia thus balanced. If England is not in our .'debt, wo are not much her debtors. We should prefer to wait for action at home. Let thorn send their people. They have ships laid up in the harbours that would bring out all we could absorb. In the present state of our finances, an extensive outlay would be imprudent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a surplus of four millions. England, at the same time, has a starving population. Lot them apply the surplus money to aid the surplus people, and if they get rid of the first, they will not be troubled with the last! Four millions would give substantial relief, but we cannot afford to pay them." Australian Meat in England. — The advices which have come to hand by this mail to the Melbourne Meat Preserving Company confirm all the previous reports which have been received as to the demand for their meat. Orders come tb the company which it is impossible with their limited appliances to fulfil. The major Eortion of their preservations were sent ome by five ships, three of which had reached England and delivered their cargoes. The agent of the company writes to say that these meats have arrived in such a perfect state of preservation that they have almost already dissipated the prejudice which the English people held against preserved meats. Numerous applications had been made for shares in tlie London market. The company's works must proceed, as they have received orders for 67,000 61b. tins, to be sent in July, a request which it is impossible for them to coriiply with, because they are already behindhand with more than that number of tins, which they have received indents for and cannot supply.