Paraguayan settlements. In 1893, William Lane, an Australian social reformer of the labor movement, led members of a group called the New Australia Cooperative Settlement Association to establish a settlement in Paraguay, in South America. The settlement was based on socialist ideals. But the settlers met many difficulties and quarreled among themselves. Lane disagreed with Gilbert Casey, who led a second group of settlers in 1894. Lane founded another settlement, which he called Cosme. The Australian poet Mary Gilmore edited the Cosme Evening Notes. The settlements lasted for some time but lost their socialist character.
