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able-bodied men, with wives and families dependent upon them, and house rent to pay, were compelled to toil from early morn till late at night in the counties of Dorset and Somerset for 7s. a week ? and yet people in better conditions of life had not scrupled to charge those ill-paid labourers with improvidence. What, improvident with 7s. or even 10s. a week ? Why, the economical powers of these men's wives must have been taxed to the very utmost to know how to lay this small pittance out to the best advantage, so as to be able to keep body and soul together. Other similar statements might be advanced to prove that the condition of the labourers was a most degraded one. They were to a great extent dependent on the charity of others, and if misfortune or affliction overtook them, they had nothing to look forward to but the workhouse, and eventually rest in a pauper's grave. But all this was now about to be changed. The clouds and darkness which had hitherto overspread and blighted their prospects were about to be dispersed, and already a gleam of light was seen in the distant horizon, which was gradually increasing in brightness, and giving promise of a more brilliant and glorious day —a day when the enslaved should be emancipated, when the chains and fetters of despotism by which he had been bound down to a life of misery and wretchedness should be snapped asunder, and when the farm labourers of Old England should once more stand forth iu all the dignity of true manhood, a happy and contented people. The dust of ages was being swept away from the minds of the labouring class ; they were gaining knowledge and increasing in intelligence. A spirit of restlessness was among them; they were impressed with a sense of their wrongs, a knowledge of their power, and a laudable ambition to improve their position and that of those dependent upon them. All these changes would not, however, be effected by the aristocracy nor by the clergy, the great landed proprietors, or the farmers. (Loud cheers.) No, all these classes, with the exception of a few nobleminded men, possessed too much of the spirit of the priest and the Levite in days of old, who, when they saw a fellow-creature iu distress, needing sympathy and assistance, passed by on the other side, forgetting that he possessed in his bosom all the elements of humanity just as much as the great, the noble, and the mighty. (Cheers.) Help and deliverance generally arose from a quarter where least expected. When the Almighty had a great work to be done, He raised up suitable instruments for accomplishing it, and he believed that their noble President, Joseph Arch, was raised up by Divine Providence to be the deliverer of the farm labourers, as Moses was to be the deliverer of the Israelites. (Cheers.) Joseph Arch was trained up in the school of poverty and privation, and, possessing good natural abilities, which he improved by self-culture, he was pre-eminently qualified to be the leader of this great movement. He alluded to the first meeting held at Wellesbourne, and traced the history of the movement from that time to the present, and remarked that defence, and not defiance, was their motto, and that the more their Union was opposed the stronger it became. He also pointed out that in consequence of the farmers locking out the Union men, they were compelled to resort to emigration, and hence it was that Mr. Arch went to Canada, and he to New Zealand. A graphic description of his voyage to the latter country was then given. He left Wootton, his native home, on Saturday morning, the 13th December, 1873, and proceeded by rail,-accompanied by a large number of immigrants, to Plymouth, from which place they set sail on the 23rd of the same month, and arrived in New Zealand 52 days afterwards. With the exception of sickness on board, they had a very pleasant voyage, not experiencing a single gale. On their arrival they were put iu quarantine, and a few days afterwards he was introduced to the Superintendent of Otago, who received him most courteously, and gave him a cordial welcome to the province. He made him acquainted with the object of his visit, and he deeply sympathized with the underpaid and ill-fed labourers of the old country, and offered to render him all the assistance in his power. (Cheers.) He gave a description of the scenery of this part of the colony (the Province of Otago), which he said was most picturesque. Near the city of Dunedin is 700 acres of land, which a wise Government had laid out as a recreation ground for the inhabitants of the city. At Dunedin he was most courteously received by the Government officials, and provided with a first-class railway pass over all the railways in the Province of Otago, and a gentleman was appointed to act as his guide. Dunedin was quite a modern city, and about twentysix years ago there was scarcely a house to bo seen there. Now, however, this city contained about 25,000 inhabitants, and it had good streets, splendid shops, banks, churches, manufactories, post and telegraph offices, railway station, hospital, asylum, Sunday and week-day schools, museum, botanical gardens, a public library, university, Ac, but no union workhouse. (Cheers.) As he paced the streets, he thought that everything betokened prosperity. The people were well dressed and respectable, and the children with their rosy cheeks looked the very picture of health. There is a marked difference between the labouring men there and here at home. They did not look down at their toes so much, their heads were erect, and their whole bearing impressed him with the idea that " Jack is as good as his master." (Hear, hear.) Everything betokened happiness, comfort, and respectability. In other parts of New Zealand he was equally as well received and as courteously treated. An account of the discovery, position, extent, settlement^government, population, climate, and scenery was next given. With regard to the Government, Mr. JTolloway explained that it consisted of two Houses—a Parliament under a Governor-in-Chief —an Upper House called the Legislative Council, consisting of forty-five members nominated by the Governor for life; aud a Lower House, called the House of Eepresentatives, consisting of seventy-eight members. Thirty of these represented the North Island, forty-four the South Island, and there were four Maoris to represent the Natives. The members of this House were chosen by the people every five years, and each owner of a freehold worth £50, or tenant, householder in the country at £5 per year rent, and in the town at £10 per year rent, providing he was twenty-one years of age, was qualified to vote. In addition to this, each province had its own separate local government, known as the Provincial Council, and presided over by a Superintendent. The education of the young was well provided for, and all public institutions were admirably managed. With regard to agriculture, the colony possessed immense tracts of fine undulating country, with vast plains containing thousands of acres of fine fertile soil, which, when brought under proper cultivation, was equally productive with the average of land in our own country. He had been informed that an acre of land would produce about 50 bushels of wheat and barley, and between 60 and 70 bushels of oats. The land of New Zealand was generally fighter than that of Eng2—D. 6. \