The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

AN EMIGRANT'S EXPERIENCE IN
NEW ZEALAND.

The following extract from a letter lately received
from a cabinet-maker, formerly employed in one of
the large establishments of Sheffield throws some
light on the commercial prospects of New Zealand,
and I m the strange depreciation that has fallen on
property of all kinds in that colony. The writer had
at first settled in Auckland, where he built himself a
lr,use, but trade fallin4 off, he moved to Wanganui.
Writinv from the latter place he says :

I am little better off than I. was the day! landed, and at
present see little chance of bettering myself. I may not be

here long; this place is voing dawn so fast. I hear bettir-
news from Auckland, hut it will take a long time to get
round after the struggle of tire past few years Thcre are a
many people out at work there vet. Trait Ines been dead for
a long time, ant great distress lull lawn felt amongst nearly
all classes My brother, in his last letter, wrote are that he
had been at an auction sale in Auckland, of new furniture,
and saw things sold there for the price of materials.
Chests of drawers that men used to be paid £3
for making were sold for 30s. and everything else
in portion. People who had got'a little beforehand, and
get a loam of their own up, have sweated the money, lost
their houses, :old gone generally to smash. A neighbour •4
mine bought a section Of land for 5:.7.0 each, put up a four. .
roomed house, fenced it in, and sunk a will—altagaher at
the lowest estiniate it would cost £2so—put it up to auction,
and it was sold for £3O. I built myself a house which cost
tue nearly some odd—and I am getting now
2s tkl, per week for it. I have spent near 1;15 this year past
on it, and got about £lO for rent. My brother let it for 55. ;
the people said they would stay ill would reduce the rent to
45., and put them a verandah up in front—considerate of
them, wasn't it? Well, I did it, and they left before the ark
was half paid for. It is anything but pleasiutt to have real
property in Auckland at present.

At the Marylebone imhee-court, on Saturday.
constable incidentally stated that since the issue of sir
Richard Maple's edict against the CalllllC race in Londoo, he
bad captured ci fewer than 270 dods. iiis hunts weie
covered with black marss caused by the bites of riciom,
animals and the auhaequent cauterizat' . The magistrate
remarked upon the dangerous nature Of such an occupation.
and c 7: ntod the officer a sum sufficient for the purchase of
a pair ot glove.s stout enough to resist future Attacks.
In three counties of Kentucky, United States,
officers attempting to execute processes of the nude in cases
ot violation of the tax law have been captured. robbed, and
finally threatened with death as the pepalty et any future
alb, opt exceet e the laws. The guilty parties .tre disti Or.
of spirits Mid workers in tobacco.
The King of Prussia, challenged as it were by MI
address of the Rector of the I Diversity of Ki to express
himself on the quest 1011 if peace vc War, said the could
not see throughout Europe any cause for the si:,,urbance
ef
peace.
One day 19.4 week a young lady venture., to try her
swimming you ers in a very rough sett at Lowest. ft ; she was
soon carried out of her depth, and could not turn. tier
screams were heard, and ill a moment a slender girl threw
off her jacket and hat, rustiest fearlessly throug the heavy
waves, and swam to her rescue, bringing the y,o, og lady in,
to the admiration of all beholders. This noble t was done
by the daughter of Mr. Cook, the proprietor of !le bathing
machines is front of the fiattery-green. Wild it t, the second
[isle this brave girl has risked her owu life to save that of
another.
On the lot day of January of this year tic number
of paupers in receipt of relief, in-door or odt-door, it)
England and Wales „including lunatics and vo•aanta %yap
more than 1,000,000. In the year ending NI, eh 25, 1867,
nearly £7,000,000 was expended for the relief •4 ,lie poor, or
more than half a million in excess of the suns pent I luring
the previous year. The rate per head on the population tor
the relief of the poor was tin. rid for the year :.nling March
25, loos.
The Independence Beige reports the following fatal
occurrence .—At the Camp of lkverloo the soil ittel on duty
on Saturday last, seeing three men approach: him, cried
out •. csiti rice," and received no answer. Ile Eved eta us-
itls the late sl a killed the

tame of seventy-five paces, and with the
serjeant and eorporal, who w•-re going their r •undo. The
third soldier ran and reported what had occur, it. In u few
minutes it was f01111(1 that the Alldni rifle •• did ,;onders.'
The bishops and clergy of the " Red I .;ver Settle-
ment." in British North America, unite In ;11 appeal tin
charitable persons ev.:ry where for aid to Inc suffering
inhabitants of the region ; they say that not .1 ;QSlltl
if
grain will be harvested ; that the potato crop failed ;that
the buffalo hunters have returned without in. .t, and that
there i 6 110 seed in the ...unary for another yea • Crop.
The area of land wider cultivation in he Anfiti a-
'WWI colonies, according to the last return.. is 2,500,019
acres, and the live stock consists of 600,u00 Ina es, 1,000,000
cattle, U. 5.500,000 sheep, awl 400,000 pigs, Ms ; a total of
more than 43,000,1510 head of stock.
" There is, or wa.s a short time hail; among the
matadors at Madrid and one of the 1110, fearleas. au
Englishman, awl runmur hail it that not lin• . ago he e
ii
lied our Queen's colours"—Army and Nary I. etre.
By one of the last acts of parliament p:el, execu-
tions against railway 1,01111/allies are restricts' :o the tat of
September, WO, from the Ist of September in -'.
; A correspondent of The Times fears th as it is in
. contemplation to import American hay in Im quantities,
such acturse may lead to fearful consequene; in again de-
! vastating this country at present only recove,ng from the