EMIGRATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 42, 18 May 1853, Page 2

EMIGRATION.

An abstract of a letter from the Rev. Leo H. St George, Sudwell, Salisbury, Wilts; England ; to Geo. St. George, Surgeon of this place, Oct. 12th 1852. " With regard to the New Z aland Company, I brlitie tb y an trying to resume operations sguin, tbe matier is before Parliament and nothing can "he known definitely (ill Parliament meet*, wbioh will not he till next month. ; _ Every LoJy one meets with now it perfectly New Zealand mad, nothing else i« talked of, and numbers of gentlemen* »un» are on the way out or getting ready to go. Several families at the fashionable wa'eiing>placei, are tending out their too* a* pioneer*, and await report to folio*. Thousand!, and thousand* are gone and ar« going to the Colonies, bo much so, tbat tbe fa - men and landlord* are beginning to fear the scarcely of labour, Ireland now aendi none to harvest, all her people are gone or going to America, Australia, &c. Sta. Labourer* were with tbe greatest difficulty obtained to get In the barreit thii year. Mj wife* friends, onoo against New Zealand an now all for it, to that obstacle is gone, and thus, hyeandbye oat we come. Whoever live* 20 year* longer will tee both Auilalia, and New Zealand what 'do one at tlila moment ha* tbe Irast conception of. The Great Britain Steam Ship ha* now become a passage ship to Australia.— The road through the Isthmui of Panama i* now parti* used, bat ia tbe course of another year or ao, iiVrlll be the highway to Australia, via New Zealand.— Yes indetd New Zealand is alt tbe rage in England, iverybody i* taking about it. If yjtt live a few yean longer in New Z. -aland, you will scarcely remember what it wa* when yon lint landed, being one of the ori. ginal settler* -yon may depend it will bo • very wonderful phce."