The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1874.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 15, 17 June 1874, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1874.

If the Loudon correspondent of the Auckland “ Star” is a reliable judge on such matters, the news which is given on his authority “ that the im- “ migrants per Loch Awe, which sailed “ from London on April 6th for Auck- “ land, are the finest class which have “left England lately,” must.be regarded by every one in the colony with considerable satisfaction. Of course we cannot help the feeling that under the circumstances we might prefer that the Loch Awe should have been bound to Canterbury, but still we can heartily congratulate the northern province on the expected addition of a good many of the right sort of immigrants. With the recollection of what Mr Jollie said in the Provincial Council on the night in which he made his financial statement, it would appear that we may reasonably expect to receive here in the course of a few months a number of a similar class of working men and women. The statements made by Mr Duncan, in his letter to the Provincial Council, show the frightful amount of poverty consequent on the large “ lock out” of agricultural laborers which has taken place lately in England, and it is almost inconceivable that the majority of those laborers, who have thought at all on the subject, should not be too glad to exchange their present state of want for one of plenty, the only proviso being that they will have to work. To those who have been accustomed to daily manual labour from their youth up, work presents no terror, and it is only the discontented and idle who will find their case in the new country as hard as in the old. We cannot expect that out of all the immigrants Mr Duncan may select there will not be a proportion of the latter class, but we think bis choice will probably be as good as that of anyone we could have sent home from here. The amount of extra money that he very judiciously requested the Provincial Grovernment to allow him to expend was very small, and the Grovernment were so certain of the fact that the House would authorise the expenditure that they immediately sent back a reply in the affirmative. Let us trust that it may be attended by good results, and that before long we may be able to announce the arrival of some of “ the finest class of “ immigrants.”