"NEW AUSTRALIA."

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1152, 30 March 1894, Page 35

"NEW AUSTRALIA."

London, March 26. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette declares that the NewAustralian settlement in Paraguay is a complete fiasco.

The ship Blairmore, which arrived at Newcastle from Buenos Ayres on the 20th iust v brought very unpleasant intelligence from Paraguay. The vessel left Buenos Ayres on 31st January, and Captain Caw was frequently interviewed by men from the new settlement begging a passage back to any part of Australia. Pour men offered JclO each, but Captain Caw declined to take them. The Buenos Ayres journal brought by Captain Caw publishes a letter signed C. 11. Manning, 15th December, 1893, giving a vivid account of the hardship endured by the settlers, 83 of whom had left in a„ body, penniless, in order to interview the Government of the country with the view of getting away altogether. The writer implores the editor of the Review of the River Plate to telegraph to the authorities in Australia to warn people not to come to Paraguay. Another letter appears in another issue of the same paper in defence of the settlement, accusing the seceders of drunkenness and promoting discontent. It also states that when they went away they were provided with plenty of food, and also with lOOdol. each for single men, lOOdol. for married men, and lOOdol. for each child. The editor of the journal regards the whole scheme as chimerical and founded upon principles at present far ahead of the progress attained by mankind. —Newcastle correspondent Sydney Morning Herald.