MR VESEV STEWART'S SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4174, 5 July 1875, Page 5

MR VESEV STEWART'S SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

The following is a copy of a letter addressed ■by Mr Stewart from Belfast, May 4th; to.Mr Dargaville, of Auckland, and wh'ch appears in the Cross:—

My dear Dargaville—l have postponed writing to you from month to month, waiting till I could send you final intelligence of our departure . We have been most terribly humbugged about our ship, and though we arranged to have ief t Belfast on last Pi iday, yet our >hip is not even yet chartered by the Agent-General. The consequence is, we have thirty-seven f.imilks all sold out of house and home, liv'ng upon their little capital, which is decreasing each week. We have about ninety single girls going out in the sa-i.e ship. They have given up their situations, and it is hard to say if we can keep them together. Bad as was the system ot" red tape adopted at Westminster Chambers, it is far worse now. I get all the blame for this delay, of course, from my special settkrs. You are aware we go hence ia two ships from Carrickfergus Roads. In my ship is the special settlement party ; we have thirty-seven families and about ninety single girls. In the supplementary ship, to start »t the siine time, we will .numberabout five hundred souls. This supplementary ship is intended for labourers and the ordinary emigrant class. In the special ship the berths will be all enclosed, and will not bring any single men. I fear we shall not get away before Ist June ; so you need not expect us before Ist September. Two families of our party are already in Auckland, and eleven families follow in September : and will thus (ill the black with fifty families. I was disappointed in getting more land, or I could have brought out another fifty. Ido think Mr Vogel is guilty of a short-sighted poliiy in this respect. Soma of mv friends here wish to give me a public dinner before leaving, .and to invite Vogd and Dr Featherstiai, with the Lord Mayor in the chair. We have two parsons on board, and I have got £50 a year from the Colonial and Continental Church Society, and £50 a year from the Socitty for the Propagation of the Gcspel; so our parson ha 3 a good independent start. I have also got a promise of £100 towards building our church from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and a free grant of valuable books for our library. We are bringing over, undtr Mrs G. V". Stewart's auspices, some very fine girls and some suitable as nursery governesses. Of course, they understand they go to the colony to work, and they will also make good wives. I send you a Belfast Newsletter. They are all in a sad state at such an exodus; but this movement of mine has done, more for emigration to New Zealand than fifty agents. It has drawn public opinion so much through the press to parties who would never have heard of the country. The authorities in London threw out the challenge that I cocld not carry out the scheme; and, in justice to you and my other friends, I was determined to carry it out.—Yours truly, G. V. Stewart.

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