At all the larger towns the miserable rustics have crowded in from the rural districts and fight like wild beasts as long as their strength lasts, for the possession of every scrap of food or even ofl'al and carrion, and when their strength is gone they drop down and die of starvation. Accordingly, who should be appealed to in this extrem ity, but England, the world's almoner ? The worst of it is that England has a good many hungry people nearer at hand than the Val ley of'the Nile. MEW ZEALAND FOR ENGLAND'S LABOURERS. But wo have no business to have hungry or starving pooplc here if the letters of the "Daily News" correspondent in your colony are to be relied on. He gives the most mar vellously glowing accounts of the chauces for the labouring man which are offered by New Zealand, and his remarks, copied from one paper to another throughout the length and breadth of these islands cannot fail to have their effect during the com ing emigration season. Small tenant farmers are especially interested in these matters just now, for farming is not very remunerative, and. nuinhers of men are leaving their land in disgust, and looking out for view opeuiugs. A man came to me the other day to ask advice about going to New Zealand. He was an enormons broad-shouldered Yorkshire tyke, who had been struggling for some years with a strong clay farm, and at the best times had never done more than make ends meet. He brought with him two great hulking sons, as big and burly and joviaMookiug as him self, and at his request I went to his lodgings to see his three daughters, five strapping girls, who will make grand wives for some of your thriving bush settlers. " You see, Mr Greenstone" he said (but in the broadest North country dialect) "we can turn o.ur hands to anything. We can b,U\ld ou,r own houses, brick, stone or wood, aye, and we can make the bricks, quarry the stone, and fell and square the timber. We can siuk a shaft and mine our own coal. We can plough reap, harrow, or do any other mortal thing in tanning. In fact we are good all-round men for anything that tuni3 up, and we mean money, sir. 