(From the Belfast News Letter, January 14, 1874.)

The following newspaper articles and extracts are published in order to show that my exertions in the cause of emigration were fully reeognised in the north of Ireland :—

In another column will be found a letter from Mr. H. W. Farnall, who is well known here as a New Zealand emigration agent, giving extracts from a speech of Sir James Fergusson, the ex Governor of New Zealand. Sir James Fergusson is, no doubt, to a certain extent an impartial witness, and what he says speaks highly in favor of that isle of the Pacific, and of the energy of its handful of settlers. Our opposition to emigration, as far as Ireland is concerned, is well known. We have repeated over and over again, and we repeat once more, that Ireland is capable of profitably employing twice the population that we have at present: but in default of keeping our people here, it is a melancholy pleasure directing them to our own colonies when, as in the case of New Zealand, according to Sir James Fergusson, the much talked of "working man" must be in a position to satisfy his most exacting friends One is inclined to take rather a romantic interest in New Zealand. It is the most distant and the youngest, with the exception of Fiji, of all our Colonial possessions. It has gone through more vicisitudes and had more tricks played with it than perhaps all the other Colonias put together We cannot forget how the late Liberal Administration met the earnest appeal of the New Zealand colonists in their sore need with cold neglect, nor can we forget how it was pointed out to them that they acted as a drag: on the State coach wheels of this great Empire, and that the Empire would be better without them. It is not due to Mr. Gladstone and his party, but rather to the sound wisdom that prevailed amongst the local rulers, that New Zealand at that time, did not fall away from allegiance to the mother country. Had it done so. not only would one of the brightest jewels have fallen out of Britain's diadem, but in falling out the setting of the others would certainly have been loosened. These facts, and the pluck with which the colonists numerically few, have entered upon a great policy of emigration concurrently with the formation of railroads and other public works throughout the length and breadth of the two islands, throw a romantic and patriotic halo over that distant dependency that cannot but be felt and appreciated by the people of the United Kingdom. New Zealand has certainly been fortunate in having men like Mr. Farnall to act as her representatives at home. The full significance of the importance of the settlement about being formed under the auspices of Mr. George V. Stewart, in New Zealand, has yet to be realised. It not only means the departure of a class of men from our shores that we can ill afford to lose, but it also means, if the prospects held out to those who accompany Mr. Stewart are fully realised by them, a steady emigration in future years to a colony that, up till now, has received but an infinitessimal quota of the enormous number that are annually leaving us. It is certainly time that something was done by those at home who are supposed to be responsible, unless they wish to see the country drained not only of the bulk but of the best part of its population,