Australia for Emigrunts.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 5, Issue 411, 11 July 1890, Page 4

Australia for Emigrunts.

A recent dispatch writ over the cal from Ixmdnn throw, some addit I lift:■ tOB the rel.it.ve menu of I ■ I mied State, and the rolnnim an no th o I r colon;.alion purposes. T' r d—jatcli. which haa attracted in .ch attention in America, ta aa f :ii »» "The ctatiment that only r.i.iut 100.000 square mile* of land Or settlement by emigrant* r* n him in tlie I toted State, haa come hk. a revelal ion to Knglishmen, most ot* cm hate been clinging to the belief that America was only half nettled aa w> ll a* only partially civilised. The atateineiit referred to haa just been i. fora a felect committee of tlie l! i . of Commons on colonisation, t< et 1m * with the annonnretuf nt that in Ai. tralia there are 500,000 square mih - ai d in Manitolta 4'iO.OOU suit- . . for < ilctiMini; purposes. There- . rd- -how that 'it.oe 1815 12.50«Mnmi p ; have left tin- I mted Kingdom, mid "f the«e s.inni,imni were of Itntiah ) Irish origin. Iwo thirds of these tio .rn.nts went to tlie I’m ted Stale*, wh -e population, if it increased in the same ratio aa in the past 100 year*, would l<c at the end of another I i tear* 1 .000.1MW.000. or about 500 p« r-uis per square mile of habitable j of the country. Since 1870 u • mist Jt.050,500 Drilisli people who 1.i. . emigrated there hate been not <1 ;ite I.imni.insi immigrants into this country. The total immigration has an mud t<> alsiut one-halt the excess of birth-over death*. Thi* array of tig ..es has convinced the committee Ilia; emigration from the Ilntish isles i- i > longer aa desirable as fonuerly, and the committee will recommend in their ri jiort tiiat stimulated and asn -te»l etm’ration le discontinued except to Australia." ri ese stall im nts are correct and incorrect, say* an American corres- )- .deni. The area of Government land still open to settlement and tit tor cultivation is very small, and the |.«nr land* are not worth having. Some very tuerpetic land grabbers lave pit lured in all the best tracts, w,. ch. however, they Will sell at more i hi the (iovernment price of 1 dollar -■> cents an sere. It can be truthfully .Hid. how, vi r. that the country east of the Mi*-i*sippi now needs no iinini- : .!ii’n. and the west would do just as .>•11 without any more. Thu being r • r i-i, Aii-traiia offers the best in-due,-menu to | ample who leave the Oid Country.