PROJECTED CANADIAN IMMIGRATION TO AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 895, 26 September 1866, Page 4

PROJECTED CANADIAN IMMIGRATION TO AUCKLAND.

. Population- of the right sort—o-f men who b will go upon the laud granted them by the ) province and bring it into cultivation^this ; it is which will rapidly advance the province i of Auckland in wealth and prosperity.and, i by a natural consequence, in political inde- • peiidence. We cannot have top many imini- > grants,; from, Canada brought into this s country. : ' AVe need fear no repetition of the ) results which followed the introduction of s tlie Waikato immigrants, should even twice 3 the number of Canadians be brought to our ? shores in the same space of time, for these ; latter arc of the right stamp, good and useful i colonists, willing to work, and too proud to J leiiu upon or even accept Government sup- { port. ■ ■■ ' ■■■ '••■?■ ■' ■ ' fc It is with no littlo pleasure Ave have ■> received intelligence from Canada by the late i, mail announcing that our esteemed fellowr citizen, Dr. S. Stratford, who left here 3 for England in medical charge of a porb tion of her Majesty's troops, _ is now s actively engaged in Canada as an immjgra- - tion agent of the Provincial Government of 1 Auckland. Dr. Stratford's ten or eleven ;, years' residence amongst us will enable him a to give a faithful picture of what such men f as those he is now in communication with a may achieve in a country such as this, while i his still longer residence previously to that s period in Canada "VYest, will giye weight to s his representations. IJe can point with f pride to the successes of those i of'Kova Scotians which havei,grown up under e his own eye at Waipu, at "Wangarei, at ■, Omaha, at Kauriohore, and .elsewhere, where t men With every difficulty to struggle against, i- with scanty means, but with stout hearts - and willing hands have hewn, first food and Mter, then plenty, and now competence i from the vesb ' amongst whom failure, b] if not aWogetW n rare t. indeed. They possessed the TrJJS £2''•' ,„ 3 colonists are -made —-the .." •denying, jiatient, indomitable upirit which j carries forward to success the pioneers, of 5 colonisation in a country yet to be reclaimed • from a state of nature by the hand of man, j Had the Waikato regiments been composed • of Canadian bushmen, and the Waita-to im- ; migrants been drawn, noli from the Cage or

from the manufacturing townsof the mother country, but from the backwoods of Canada or feoin Nova Scotia, how different would have now been the position of the immigrants themselves, how far more prosperous the Province. To such men the province of Auckland offers a glorious field of promise. None so thoroughly appreciate her magnificent climate as do they. To none do her lands yield more certain increase, for none cotoe better and inured, to tlie life and occupation of a settler than themselves. In this lies, doubtless, much of their success; and that Government,, which can have the skilled and the unskilled colonist for the same cost, a bonus of 40 acres of land, is blameable indeed, when it passes over the advantages of drawing immigration from the Canadaa, and takes from the hands of incompetent immigration agents at home so many from the very classes which are least suited to make good settlers. In the present instance We observe that the Government have set apart for special ment by these expected immigrants from Canada, oneofthefinesit.districtsinth.eUorth, the Victoria Valley. "We triist, however, that the efforts of Dr. Stratford will not be confined to procuring settlers for thai district alone, but that several, such settlements will be established, not only north, but south of this city. JSFo better use could be made of a large percentage of the confiscated lands, than the giving them away, under the 40acre system, to men from the Canadas. Granting land to them means the settle* inent and cultivation of such land, the supply of com, beef, and labour to the province, and a certain increase to our proviru cial revenue. In the powers which the j Assembly will be called upan to grant during the present session, to enable the Superintendent to work out, the colonisation of the confiscated lands, provision will, We understand, be inade to enable him to fix what price may appear suitable for these lands, or even to give them away, if by such means the work of colonisation can be promoted. Heretofore the Act prescribes that they shall not be sold for less than twenty shillings per acre. The following is the Copy of a hand-bill issued by I)r. Stratford, in Canada West, and which we received from a gentleman at Montreal :— ITEW ZEALAND. One of the most temperate and beautiful climates hi the world, considerable part of it being located in the Southern hemisphere, in a latitude co-incident with that of the Island of jyiadeira, with a similar insular position; vieing in beauty and fertility with Southern Italy. It is declared by the Statistician General of the army to be the most healthy place in which British, troops are stationed, exceeding by nearly fifty per cent, the British. Isles themselves. Several persons having expressed a desire to go to that country are hereby informed that they may receive an order for a free grant of land, on application to the emigration agent for the province of Auckland, the undersigned. An extract from the Grovernment Land Regulations of the province of Auckland, Netf Zealand, will show the proportions of land which each individual will be entitled, to select through that order. Section C6.—Such orders shall be granted according to the following scale: for every person eighteen year* of age or upwards, forty acres; for every person upwards of five years and under eighteen, twenty acres. Provided always, that in any caae where a child under eighteen years shall accompany a parent, the order shall be granted to the parent and not to the child; and in any case in which a servant Shall be brought out at the expense of the mastJr, the allowance shall be inade to the master and not to th servant. It is the. especial desire of the Auckland Government to form a Canadian settlement in that country, believing that the experience of the backwoodsman will form a sure and certain basis for their prosperity, and prove a useful example ;to the Heinigrant from Europe already settled in that province. With these ideas they have set apart the Victoria Valley, near Mongonui harbour (without doubt one of the finest locations jin that beautiful country) for their special use, on promise of actual settlement. Information as to ,the nature of the country, the character of the climate, and the means of shipment, may be had on application, personally or by letter, from S. J. Stratford, Government Agent for the Province of Auckland, New Zealand. If by post, direct to S. J. Stratford, Post-office, Markhain Village, Canada West.