Nuhou, Volume I, Number 19, 29 April 1873 — Remarks of Mr, Green, at St. George's Society Supper. [ARTICLE]

Remarks of Mr, Green, at St. George's Society Supper.

As Mr. W. L. Green touchcd upon topics of espeeial public intereBt, we desire to give a sepcrate, and some\vhat fuller report of his remarks. Mr. Green eaid in reply to a eail for his views, or a sentiment: It gives me grcat pleasure to meet eo manj of my eountrymen here to-niglit—there is only one drawbaek—that is, that there are not lialf enough of us. I mean that tbere are not enough Eritishers on the islands. Weare thrown here togcthcr on a group in the mlddle of thc Paeifie Ocean«, and we no doubt all feel the importanee of anulual aysiBtance and support. When wc kok towards oue. eide of this oeean, we find the Australian Colonies and Kew Zealand with a i 1 w popula.tion.. of 1,900,000 of our feliow eountrymen, whilst hero wo namher, *ay a palti*y 1,000 or lcss. That is not enough to do any good. I wish there were 20,000 of us here, We liad a]mt>st hettor get a great numl)er more, or let the few there are leave. There ha« heen a great deal eaid and written about immigration, and hringing Chmese and Japanese, and |x\>ple of other nationalities. Popiilation i6 wanted. Can we not induco more of ouv own eountrymen to eome? lt is truc we are toAhe great United State6, and we may perliaps hope for population ffiom that (juavter. P»ut the Amcricans are not a colonbing people—at- lea6t, not outside of tiieir own llow van we espeet them to he, with a great continent of their own that wantB ti'ling up? 1 mler gcntlcmcn, \ ;i'ii to*night lov u Neutiment, l ee.v iu rep!y—lct u-_ havc more Ihi "