He says—"lt.is not possible that Mr Fellows could other iwisethan wilfully have assumed that the ;arrivals and departures spoken of in the newspaper extracts were all of Govern ment immigrants—the deduction he .makes from the extracts, and which he several times repeats, that one of every two immigrants introduced by the .Government leaves the Colony, is a false deduction, and it is difficult to see |how he could be ignorant that it was :so." On one more point Mr Vogel is and we have much plea |sure in reproducing his argument, be cause the idea which he combats is one which possesses many men whose knowledge and breadth of view are incomparably greater than that of Mr Fellows. It is this: The five thousand men employed throughout the Colony | upon public works might all be .thrown out of that employ to-morrow jwithout very seriously affecting the prosperity of the 'Colony;' So truly | ;wonderful has been the absorption of i labour in private undertakings that they

would be re-employed without,,the de* lay, of twenty-four hours". :&; good many of us suppose that the^grafi'd ""cat astrophe which Mr FeWws delights to picture -to --himself, Cartd ~svKich ' veVy many "more dreati,>iU: be rerfdcW" the', more terrible,, the pore"' terrific,* bjr "foups of, /unemployedJcast adrift^by this 'auddeiv;cessafcion,of I public* works. Forty immig^ants-have^aT-1 rived in the last'four year^and thel five thousand Government wbrjemen* are a mere fleabite, a poor trifle, In such a community as ..ours. The true. cause of alarm is not the additicn of five thousand pairs "of hands to the wages-earning portion of the population, hut the fact that profitable industrial undertakings cannot be carried on be cause of the want of labour, and that many useful works are being dwaife'd for want of men. !

Having read Mr Vogel's and Mr Fellows's letters with much care, we are persuaded that the Colony will nofc suffer in her interests by ; the discussion. On the contrary, it is plain that our re calcitrant Colonist desiring to curse this people lias in spite of himself blessed them altogether. More people will be induced to canvass the merits of New Zealand as a field for immigra tion after seeing the pro's and ccmi'sh, so prominently brought forward. Xj" \~

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