IMMIGRATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 434, 5 October 1869, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

TO TIIB EDITOR OF TIIE STAR. Pitt, — I have only just come down from the country, and happening to lay hold of a Press, I was astonished at some remarks in it, which appeared to me, knowing the real state of .affairs, to. savour very much of what Yankees would call "an elongated piece of veracity." The writer therein states that we want labour (I deny it), and that, unless we have it, many of the crops will have to rot o;i the grciiud. Now, I will guarantee that, if the rartka so situated will only find " utu," they will find labour in galore. Who are the parties whom emigration .will eerve ? 2S T ot the working man, certainly, for by it he will only get a reduction in the price of his labour, already at a very low ebb; but the moneyed man will by it be enabled to get more interest for his money by getting lalour cheap. The squatter will also get

labour cheaper, and more moutli3 to eat his mutton. But what is really now the situation of the working man ? If he gat work at ali, which is doubtful, he will get 15s per week, find what i 3 he to do with a wife and five children? They will not have, them on n station at all, and how is he to support them? Again, can a new chum get work at all when old hands cannot ? And if they cunnot, will they starve ? Is the editor of the Press a sufficient philanthropist to support those who cannot get work ? 1 much doubt it. However, we bliall see, and when I have time to think the mait'r fairly over, you thall hear from mea^ain; but I must s;»y 1 never real, in my opinion, such a foolish (I could use a stronger term) idea thsm that contained in the lcad.ng article of the Press alluded 10. Your obedient servant, A WOKKENG MAN.