Words of Advice after Arrival.

Emigrants are recommended not to linger about the towns at which they may arrive, but to proceed with as little delay as possible, either to their friends, if they have any in the province, or to the localities where they are likely to meet with employment. To ascertain where their services are most in demand, they should consult the Government Immigration Agent at the port of arrival, who will assist them with information and advice that can be relied on. They should be cautious in trusting strangers, and particularly should avoid the bar-room idler, and the croaker in the street, whose note in every colony always is that "times are bad—no work for men—country not worth a cent." These idlers and croakers, together with office-seekers, are nuisances everywhere—in Australia, New Zealand, and also in young American states.

If seeking employment, immigrants should at once accept any fair offer of work, although the wages may be less than they anticipated. They should remember that until they get into the ways of the country they are of much less use to their employers than they will be afterwards.

If the emigrant wishes to farm, he should not invest all his capital in land, but reserve sufficient to stock and work it. Let him be careful of his cash capital, and not put it into investments hastily.

Small capitalists are recommended not to buy land before they have become acquainted with its character, and the kind of labour required in a new country; and further, if possible, to purchase or rent a farm with some improvements on it, rather than to go upon untouched land. This last advice more particularly refers to emigrants from Europe, whose previous training necessarily has not so well adapted them to the settlement of wild lands as persons brought up in America. Partially-cleared farms, with buildings erected on them, may be bought in some districts of British Columbia on easy terms of payment, owing to the disposition pioneers have to sell old settlements, and take up more extensive new ones. The price of such farms depends, as already said, much on their situation, ranging probably from 14 to 35 dollars (2l. 16s. to 7l. English) per acre, within from 5 to 50 miles of Victoria.

It is better for a small capitalist, possessing from 100l. to 1000l., to place his money, on first arrived, in the savings or other banks allowing interest; to take lodgings, and to work for wages for a year or more, in order to gain a knowledge of colonial life and modes of management; or he may rent a piece of land in or near the locality in which he expects to settle, raise a crop, and look round quietly for a suitable place for a home.

By pursuing the plan suggested the emigrant, at the end of a few years, will probably be far in advance of him who, on his arrival "went at it with a rush," as beginners are apt to do.