FROM AN IMMIGRANT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1637, 30 May 1887, Page 3

FROM AN IMMIGRANT.

•' Watko Editor qf the Star. Sofc— Just from the land of onr anoaa* ton. i^wofea by the fertility of thaßoil ta 'Vbcmsiibjr, fed thither, alio, by its ]Melaiisqd& dttutioa. and the glorious Yje#iof t&e most ayixm|«trical monntain wmT'-thtne^i obtaiMdt I' determined to make tha»"Jlaod ; my temporary home —^triltfieninng for > tuiUßfe grazing firm. diimayed At my undertaking, L *nd gfttad^diiftppointod with my pros'•Seefc*. The.- poverty of those grazing the r4tatrifit if£io palpably apparent. Are " tbm no ■tngimyn in. the diatriot, tb«at you tttpfaj your* under dimpled babes to

hflM-cattW? Oh 1 ; thfo very " pity of it." Here I find a man of robust habit, assisted by two boys (one a tender infant) and two Kirls, so young- and so unfit for any other work than that at a tender mother's apron-string, tending a small herd of cows, from which, I am told, the maintenance of the family is derived. Sir, I collapse and return to England. The inducements for settling are not sufficient -in the face of this sample of wretched poverty of a stock-owner. Were it a common working man, I should think nothing of it, but I am told the man is a Battler of long standing. If I stay I may become' just such auother settler of long Standing. I grieve, bat still I return home. — I am, &c, New Chum.