MR. W. COURTNEY' EMIGRATION MISSION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7114, 12 July 1886, Page 2

MR. W. COURTNEY' EMIGRATION MISSION.

Tiie following letter wns received from Mr. Courtney by the last mail : — I had intended writing you a full report, but I put it off until the mail canio in, which it did late, and now I have been kept by peopla coming in, and by other reaaona from writing fully, so just say tho meetings 1 have had daring the last four weeks since I last wrote are as follows :—: — On the 11th May, at St. Phillips, Kensington, had a fair meeting. On 12th, at Kingston, on Thames, a full hall, and fair interest. On 9tb, at Merton, in Surrey, rather a email meeting. On 15th, at Eastbourne, a very influential meeting, with a lot of big guns present. On 19tb, at Bath, in Pavilion, with influential men on the platform and in the audience ; thesa two last will in time cause capital to come to Taranaki. On 29th, at Newbury, in Norfolk, small attendance ; but when the lights were turned down, and I showed tho bullock, a voice in the front seats asked, " did one of the Bayly's or Dingle's grow the bullock ?" It was a surprise to me, and showed there was a Taranaki man in the room, who turned out to be Southby, late of Patea. I was very pleased, as he said I had in every caso kept within the mark in my statements. On the 3rd May I spoke to a full room at Aldersgate-street; and on tho sth to a full room, but too poor a class of people, at Nottingdale, not far from Netting Hill. For chairmen, I have had a General, a Mayor, 3 Vicars, and other men of position. By this boat Mr. Barnetr, with wife and family of nine children, go ; Dr. Whitehead and his brother, who goes in for farming ; Mrs. Jonathan, a trained lady nurse, with three children ; Mr. Atkins and bis mother, who take up land ; Mr. Farmer and Messrs. [Attrill (2), who are open to go on farms ; Mr. Richardson, a baker, also able to paint, &c. The farming family that should have gone by the Doric go by tho Arawa, and Mr. White, a gentleman of means, leaves via Melbourne on 11th for Ne>v Plyn outh. The mail just in has oaly brought an order for oi\o cadet, who will start by boat leaving 3rd Jure. I could fill up any number of this class. W. COUBTNEY. Amongst tho papors laid on the table of the House is ono on " Emigration to New Zealand." It lias not yet come to hani (very few Parliamentary papers do) ; but we learn from the New Zealand Times that the correspondence is very amusing, especially that respecting Mr. Courtney. The 2't??w« says:— ''Mr. W. Courtney, of Taranaki, aanounces that lie, too, is going Home, and that if the Government will pay £1 for every £1 subscribed by tho people of Taranaki, he will give two lectures weekly in Groat , Britain for ton clear months, that ho ; will "get some of the very ablest men in England " to assist him by taking the chair at his meetings. "But," he adds, "I should receive to or three months' pay in advance towards getting photographs, and a good lantern, and I would take a central London office." The Government accepted these terms, with the limitation that the subsidy mast not oxceod £2CO. All seemed blissfull}' settled, when suddenly a dark cloud passed athwart the clear blue sky. la plain terms, tho Taranaki subscriptions wcro only partially forthcoming. Mr. Courtney writes :— "The amount raisod to date has been only £128. Settlers hero having sent me home once at their own expense feel Government might give the £250 without any further public aid, and I would now ask you to give it in J2 equal payments, 2 of which to be mado in December, and then monthly oh my having given 8 lectures during the month.!' But Mr. Balhnce "did not see it." He instructed the Under-Sec-rotary to reply :— " The Government cannot exceed tho promised subsidy. If £128 is all that has been contributed by your friends, a similar amount will bo paid by the Government." This seemed distinct enough. Mr. Courtney went Home, and the Government fondly hoped they had heard the last of his claim. They were Boon undeceived. The AgontGeucral, when first ho heard of Mr. Courtney's engagement, wrote that ho was glad to hear it, as Mr. Courtney's lectures were likely to bo popular. But oaly a few woeks later Sir Dillon Bell writes in a somewhat altered strain. Ho says :—": — " I was much surprised when I found, by the correspondence in your memorandum of the Ist December last, what the state of tho caso really was. Mr. Courtney had never told mo of his letter of the 24th October, informing you that tho amount raised among his friends to that date was only £128; but he assured j mo you had promised him that, notwithstanding any failure in the subscription, ho should receive £250 here, I now find that it was decided in Cabinet that tho Government contribution was not to exceed £1 for £1, and that if only £128 was raised, then no more was to bo paid by mo. But Mr. Courtney now tells me ho is entirely destitute of means, the £128 subscribed by his frienis having beon exhausted in his passage and other expenses, and his whole dcp9ndenco is?, in fact, upon tho money ho may receive from this office.' Clover My. Courtney ! An the Government would not r ive him in the fir6t instance any moro man they had promised, he calmly went Home and became 'destitute.' Now, he thought, thoy must holp ma whether they like it or not , lie was quite correct in his view. The Agent-General wrote reluctantlyadvisingßome further concessions, and staling that ho had himself advanced Mr. Courtney £20 and then £30 pending instructions, tho Government i\

first replied, sternly adhering to their former decision, "cannot exceed £1 for £1." But Mr. Courtney was aot daunted. He persisted in continuing " destitute ;" and poor Sir Dillon Bell three months later was obliged to cable, " Courtney destitute ; instruct whether shall continue paying," following this up with a letter stating that " Mr. W. Courtney was really destitute." On this the Government gave way. and consented to pay Mr. Courtney "£250, to include the cost of a return passage to the Colony." Exit Mr. Courtney.

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