IMMIGRATION. (FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.)

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1874 Session I, D-05b

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1874. NEW ZEALAND.

IMMIGRATION. (FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.)

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by command of Sis Excellency.

No. 1. The Hon. J. Vogel to the Ageot-Genebal. (Telegram.) Wellington, 27th July, 1874. "Halcione," "Hindostan," " Cartsburn," " Waikato," "Hereford," "Monarch," "Caroline," "Sussex," "Carrick," "Winchester," "Peeress," " Miltiades," '; Bahn." Send all nominated emigrants you approve, though number exceed limits. Vogel. ITeatherston, London.

No. 2. The Deputy Sttpeeintendent, Otago, to Hon. Colonial Seceetaet. Province of Otago, New Zealand, Sie, — Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 12th August, 1874. I have the honor to forward for the information of the Government, copies of letters received from Mr. James Adam, Provincial Immigration Agent for this Province, with reference to emigration from Britain. i I have, &c, T. S. Botd, The Hon. Colonial Secretary, "Wellington. Deputy Superintendent.

Enclosure 1 in No. 2. Mr. J. Adam to the Peovincial Secbetaey, Otago. Sib,— Edinburgh, 25th April, 1874. I have the honor to acquaint you that a great many persons have been seeing me in reference to emigration, both in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. I am sorry to say that a great part of my time has been employed in rejecting those who received schedules from sub-agents in various parts of Britain. A more unsuitable class of emigrants for a new country it is difficult to imagine, and yet these are the very persons who crowd forward in the greatest numbers. During the last three days I rejected 113 applicants of this class. The May and June ships have now a full complement of emigrants. It would have been well if a second ship could have been despatched in June, as it is the term ; but P. Henderson and Co. have been unable to get an extra vessel for that month, although requested to do so by our Agent. I am sorry to find that a sub-agent in Ireland has turned over to the Agent-General all the rejected applicants of this office. I have written to Dr. Eeatherston to see if this cannot be rectified, but have got no answer. The principle is bad on which sub-agents are paid ; it is a mere question of numbers with some of them, and entails a most rigid supervision. I have had an advertisement in the principal papers in Edinburgh for 500 women, which has been responded to as well as I expected; for even in this country domestic servants are not easily got—they all want to be shop-girls now-a-days.

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I have prepared a pamphlet relative to emigrant life, which is at present in the printer's hands, and will be out next week probably. 1 have cast it pretty much in the form of an answer to the questions most prominently put to me. I have, &c, The Provincial Secretary, Dunedin. J. Adam.

Enclosure 2 in No. 2. Mr. J. Adah to the Pbovinciai, Seceetaet, Otago. Sib,— 3, Hope Street, Edinburgh, 4th May, 1874. Since writing you in April, I have had a great many applications from domestic servants and needlewomen. I published the letter of Mr. Anderson (manager of the clothing factory), which he sent me last month, authorizing me to send two hundred needlewomen, and which has been responded to to such an extent that I was kept in my office to 10 o'clock last night. The June ships will have a number of most respectable young women, whose testimonials are excellent. The " Mairi Bhan " sails in two days. I have, &c, James Adam. G-eorge Turnbull, Esq., Provincial Secretary, Dunedin.

No. 3. Mr. P. A. Kbtjll to the Undeb Secbetaby for Immigbation. Sib,— Wellington, 12th August, 1874. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th July, enclosing copy of a letter from the Agent-General, dated London, 30th"May, referring to the free passage to NewZealand of a relation to Mr. Barck, a G-erman clergyman. If I correctly read the letter dated 22nd May, 1874, from Mr. Neyroud, the brother-in-law of Mr. Barck referred to, he informs me that Dr. Featherston declined to grant him a free passage, alleging as his reason that men in his position are not an eligible class of immigrants for New Zealand. On this Mr. Neyroud, being assisted by some of his friends, decided to come out to New Zealand notwithstanding, and to pay his own passage. Mr. Neyroud has addressed to me a very interesting memorandum upon the subject of German emigration, which being written in the French language, I enclose in the original; and 1 have no doubt it will prove that whatever the Agent-General may think about the suitability for New Zealand of this class of immigrants, the writer will nevertheless prove a very valuable acquisition. I have, &c, The Under Secretary for Immigration, Fe. Aug. Kettll, Wellington. Consul for the German Empire.

Enclosure in No. 3. APEBgTJ sur l'Emigration allemande des 1870, aux Etats-TJnis, au Bresil, et en Algerie. C'est toujours aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique que la majorite de l'emigration allemande a continue de se diriger. Toutefois la grande crise financiere et commerciale qui y sevit depuis deux annees est venue mettre un frein a cette migration : les nouvelles desastreuses, que la presse allemande a soin de relever, sont confirmees par le desenchantement de ceux qui reviennent dans la mere-patrie, aussi bien que par les lettres de ceux moins fortunes, qui, ayant epuise leurs ressources, n'ont pu les suivre. Un essai de colonisation allemande tentee l'annee derniere au Bresil par un attache a la Cour de Don Pedro, dont il avait obtenu des concessions importantes, fut moins heureux encore. Une mortalite effrayante ne tarda pas a decimer les 1,500 allemands, ceux qui avaient repondu a ces offres seduisantes, et un petit nombre vient d'arriver derechef en Allemagne dans le plus complet denument. On saitd'autrepart qu'un sort analogue fut le partage d'emigrants anglais, qui, plu3 heureux cependant, puvent etre repatries l'annee derniere aux frais du gouvernement par les soins du Consul d'Angleterre a Rio. — (Times.) L'emigration d'Alsace-Lorraine de 1872 se dirigea en partie sur I'Algerie. Cette colonie, gouvernee par une administration militaire, et inquietee periodiquement par les Arabes, n'ofl'rait pas en outre un sol et un climat appropries a une colonisation allemande. Les 4,000 a 5,000 Alsaciens-Lorrains ne trouverent a, leur arrivee, malgre les annonces et les reclames, rien de pret, ni habitations, ni terres, aussi un bon nombre d'entr'eux, cedant au decouragement, et aux avis d'agents interesses, partirent pour les rives du Eio Parana, ou, a defaut des terrains fertiles qui leur avaient etc promis, ils ne rencontrerent que des marais pestilentiels. Le Consul-General d'Espagne a, Alger vient de transmettre a son gouvernement un rapport circonstancie signiiieatif sur la situation precaire actuelle et l'avenir des colons algeriens, surtout de ceux d'origine allemande. La Nouvelle-Zelande au point de vue d'une immigration allemande. II parait inconcevable qu'au milieu de ces migrations continues et importantes, les colonies anglaises de l'hemisphere austral n'aient pas attire davantage l'attention des colons allemands. La Nouvelle-Zelande, en particulier, reunit toutes les conditions de reussite possibles: climat salubre, salaires eleves, avec les prix des subsistances moins chers qu'eu Allemagne meme. La cause principale de cette exception est l'ignorance dans laquelle en Allemagne on se trouve a l'egard de

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tout ce qui concerne ce pays. Dans les classes instruitea meme, on entend encore parler de la Nouvelle-Zelande comme peuplee de cannibales, et d'un pays d'ou Ton ne revient jamais. Mr. F. de Hochstetter, Professeur de l'lnstitut de Vienne, qui, en 1858, fit partie de l'expedition de la fregate autrichienne,Jla "Novara," et qui sejourna alors 9 mois dans les iles neu-zelandaises, publia en 1861 le resultat de ses travaux sur ces iles dans un magnifique volume edit a Stuttgart, mais cette edition de luxe et plutot scientifique, n'etait pas destinee a etre lue par le public. Des lors, a notre connaissance, il n'a rieu paru en Allemagne sur la Nouvelle-Zelande, tandis que d'autres contrees interessees a Immigration, comme le Canada, ont par une publicite opportune reussi a attirer sur leur sol recemment une partie de l'emigration allemande. Le gouvernement allemand, d'autrepart, ne voyant pas aujourd'hui de bon ceil une' emigration qui menagait pour certains territoires de degenerer en depeuplement, est loin de la favoriser. Mais l'Allemagne possede en fort excedant, un element dont elle peut se passer pour la defense ou les conquetes, tandis que oet element se trouve en minorite dans la Nouvelle-Zelande, a laquelle il serait d'un interet vital pour ses conquetes pacifiques. Nous voulons parler de la population feminine, dont, en Allemagne,la statistique montreun excedant d'environ 500,000. (Stat. 1870, avant la guerrefco.-allemde.) A cette emigration la le gouvernement ne mettrait certainement pas d'obstacle, puisque les legislateurs et philanthropes allemands se preoccupent des voies et moyens de procurer a la femme une occupation convenable, ce qui est difficile a resoudre dans l'emancipation. Apres les deceptions que l'emigrant allemand a eues ces dernieres annees, il convient de l'eclairer sur le champ assure que lui offre la Nouvelle-Zelande, par la publication de brochures concises avec cartes. Celle que MM. Shaw, Savill, & Co. publient en Angleterre pourra it servir de type. L'incertitude de l'avenir dans une contree lointaine etant en outre le principal obstacle a une bonne emigration, il convient de rassurer prcablement le public emigrant, par l'entremise de l'agent officiel du gouvernement, qui a son tour se mettrait en rapport avec les pasteurs de districts. Ceuxci ont frequemment occasion de donner des conseils a les paroissiens dans la gene par suite d'un surcroit de famille qui ferait leur richesse dans l'autre hemisphere. Us s'acquitteraient de ces fonctions a titre offieieux et philanthropique, et par leur canal un contingent d'emigrants travailleurs serait acquis chaque annee a la colonie la plus recommandable. Mai, 1874. A Pioneee foe New Zealand. [Teanslatiost.] Memorandum upon German Emigration during 1870 to the United States, Brazil, and Algeria. The great bulk of German emigration has always been directed to the United States of America. But the great financial and commercial crisis which has come about in that country during the last two years has resulted in placing a check upon that emigration ; disastrous news, which the German press takes care to circulate, has been confirmed by the disenchantment of those who have returned to their native country, as well as by the letters of those less fortunate, who, having exhausted their resources, are not able to follow them. An attempt at German colonization made last year in Brazil by an attache to the Court of Don Pedro, from whom he had obtained important concessions, was still less fortunate: a frightful mortality very soon decimated the 1,500 Germans who had responded to the seductive offers, and a small number have just returned to Germany perfectly destitute. We know further that the same thing happened in the case of English emigrants, who were more fortunate however in being able to be sent home again through the care of the English Consul at Rio. The emigration from Alsace-Lorraine in 1872 was directed partly to Algeria. This colony, governed by a military administration and disturbed periodically by the Arabs, did not offer either a soil or climate suitable for a German colony. The 4,000 or 5,000 Alsaee-Lorraines upon their arrival found nothing prepared, notwithstanding the announcements and proclamations —neither dwellings nor land ; so that a great number of them, giving way to discouragement, and acting upon the advice of interested agents, left for the shores of the Eio Parana, where instead of the fertile country they had been promised, they found nothing but pestilential marshes. The Consul-General for Spain at Algiers has lately transmitted to his Government a significant and circumstantial report upon the present precarious situation and the future of the Algerian colonists, particularly with regard to those of German origin. New Zealand, from a German Emigration point of view. It appears inconceivable that, in the midst of these continuous and important emigrations, the English colonies of the southern hemisphere have not attracted more attention from German colonists. New Zealand, in particular, combines all possible conditions of success: healthy climate, high wages, with the cost of living less than in Germany itself. The principal cause of this disregard is the ignorance which exists in Germany of everything relating to the country. Even amongst the educated classes, one only hears of New Zealand as being peopled by cannibals, and a country from which no one ever returns. Mr. I\ de Hochstetter, Professor of the Institute of Vienna, who in 1858 took part in the expedition of the Austrian frigate " Novara," and who passed some nine months in New Zealand, published in 18G1 the experiences of his travels upon the islands in a magnificent volume edited at Stuttgart; but this scientific and costly work was not of a character to be read by the public. Beyond this book nothing has appeared in Germany to our knowledge respecting New Zealand ; whilst other countries interested in emigration, like Canada, have by a timely publicity succeeded lately in drawing to their shores a part of the German emigration. The German Government, on the other hand, not at present favourably regarding an emigration which threatens depopulation to some districts, is very far from favouring it. But Germany possesses a very large element of which she cannot avail herself for defence or conquest; whilst that element is in the minority in New Zealand, to which country it would be of vital importance for its pacific conquests.

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We mean female population, of which, in Germany, the statistics show an excess of about 500,000 (Statistics 1870, before the Franco-Prussian war). To an emigration of this class the Government would certainly oppose no obstacle, since German legislators and philanthropists occupy themselves with ways and means of finding suitable occupation for women, whom they wish to place in an independent position. After the disappointments which the German emigrant has had during the past few years, he should, by means of brief pamphlets with maps, receive enlightenment as to the certain field offered him in New Zealand. Those which Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co. have published in England may be taken as a model. The uncertainty of the future of a distant country being at the outset the principal obstacle to an extensive emigration, it is expedient first to reassure the emigrating public by the medium of a Government agent, who in his turn would communicate with the pastors of the districts. These have frequently occasion to give advice to their parishioners in the difficulties attendant upon a large family, which should be a source of prosperity to them in the other hemisphere. They would perform this duty by right of their office and from philanthropic motives ; and by their means a contingent of labouring emigrants might be obtained every year for the colony most recommended by them. May, 1874. A Pioneer foe New Zealand.

No. 4. Mr. C. E. Hatjohton to Mr. P. A. Kotll. Sie, —■ Immigration Office, "Wellington, 15th August, 1874. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, with its enclosure, respecting German emigration, and to inform you that they will be laid before the Hon. the Minister for Immigration. I have, &c, F. A. Krull, Esq., C. E. Hatjghton. Consul for the German Empire, "Wellington. By Authority: George Didsbubt, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB74. Price 3d.]