obtaining professional positions, and who wait on, hoping for something
to turn up, go out while there is yet time, to the great countries
waiting to welcome you to a man's work and a man's place in the world,
and don't rest content with an idle, useless, and dependent position
where you have no place or occupation. Do your plain duty honestly and
fearlessly. Treat the world well and it will treat you well.

I do not, of course, give this advice to all. There are men who will not
succeed in the Colonies any better than here. Some will fail anywhere. I
mean the idle and lazy, the untrustworthy, the drunkard, and the
incapable; these classes go to the bad quickest in the Colonies. There
is no place or shelter for them there, where only honest workers are
wanted or tolerated.

For the man who is prepared to put his hand to anything he finds to do,
and can be trusted, there is always employment and promotion waiting;
but for him who is too proud or too lazy to work, or who prefers to
fritter his time in dissipation and amusement, there is nothing but
failure and ruin ahead.

My advice does not apply either to those who have _good_ prospects,
professional or otherwise, in this country, and whose duties call them
to remain, but to the thousands of the middle and lower classes who are
not so circumstanced, and it must be remembered that the men who are
specially and constantly needed in the Colonies are those of the
labouring and farming classes, or who may intend to adopt that life and
are fitted for it by health and will. For the artisan and the
professional who can only work at their own trade or profession, the
openings naturally are not so plentiful, but there is abundance of
employment for them until openings occur, if they choose to occupy their