IMMIGRATION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 498, 3 November 1871, Page 1 (Supplement)

IMMIGRATION.

(Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870. ) —o— Any person residing in Europe tie. siriouu of obtaining an assisted passage to the Province of Otago in vessels under contract to proceed to that Pro-.inco, may receive assistance as follows :

1. The Government will grant passages on payment to the Agent-Gene-ral of the Colony in London, or to the Agent of the Province in .'‘Gotland acting under his direction, before embarkation, of the sum of 61 for each adlib of twelve yea's old and upwards but where the intending immigrant is unable to p >y the 51 above mentioned the Aaent-General, or the Agent of the P ovinee in Scotland, acting under his direction, will have power to commute the cash,payment into the giving a promissory note for 11. per adult; preference will, however, always be given to those wliQ.can pay the largest portion in cash. The promissory notes wid be made payable on demand, but, unless the immigrant dispute the'debt or shall attempt to leave the Province payment will only be required by such instalments as may be requisite to pay off the whole amount within twelve months after arrival

o 2. Children between one and twelve years, half price. Babies under twelve months, free.

■3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to persons of the laboring class. 4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless he or she shall have been approved by the Agent-General in London, or by ‘the agent of the Province in Scotland acting under his direction;

5. No person above the age of fifty, unless a member of a large family, will be allowed assistance.

6. All persons receiving assistance must be of sound mind, good health, and good character.

7. Free passages will be provided for single, women accustomed to domestic service who can bring satisfactory proof of good character, and are between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. D

•8. In certain other cases, with a view to the introduction of skilled labor in connection witli capital for' the establishment of wool eu, linen, paper, or other manufactures, free passages will be given, of the conditions of which the Agent General in London will from time to rime be advised.

Regulations for the introduction of Immigrants into the Province of Otago on the nomination oj persons resident ther in.

1. Persons residing within the Pro vince may obtain orders for passages from the United Kingdom to Otago for their friends nr relatives on payment of 51 per statute adult; children over one year old, 21. 10s ; and under one year, free ; such payment to be made, accompanied by a written application, to the Provincial Treasurer, Dunedin ; the Receivers of Land Revenue at Invercargill, and of Gold Revenue at Queenstown, Arr >wtown, Clyde, Cromwell, Alexandra, Naseby, St. B ithan’s, Roxburgh, Lawrence, Hyde, Switzers, Macraes ; and the Collector of Customs at Oam irn, who will forward the a[>plications from lime to time to the Provincial Immigration ()ffice, at Dunedin. Forms of application may be obtained from each of the above Officers.

2 In the event of any immigrant applied for as aforesaid declining to emigrate, whatever monev may have been deposited with the Government will de returned, so soon as the AgentGeneral of the C deny, or the British Agent of the Province, shall have apprised the Goveminm-t thereof. In the event, however, of any immigrants apolied for as aforesaid accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and failing t-> present themselves at the time and place appointed for emit irkation, the money deposited as aforesaid sh •11 lie forfeited.

3 The Agent-General of the Colony or the Agent of the Province in Scotland, acting under his direction, asthe case may he, shal hive power to refuse passages to any persons nominated as aforesaid, in the event of the physic il health or mord character of the person so nominated not being satisfactory to such Agents, in which case the money deposited shall he returned.

A druggist in New Hampshire threatens the local paper with a suit for putting an “i” instead of an “a" in hi~ advertisement of grape pills r l lie fast young ladies of Saratoga s-'y thev have irrigated themselves, wen they partake of tlie waters. T e .■-team cars of New York Shite carried 51,5!>0,753 passengers 1 'st. year, and the horse eirs 214,591, 871. Only fifteen of the number were kiled. Pathetic —A Norwich authority tells a pathetic little story about a pigeon which became fastened by a long string hanging from its leg to a telegraph wire. Two or three cruel boys wanted to throw stones at it J but a kind gentleman, telling them not to hurt the poor bird, got a ladder and carefully unwound the string, and put the frightened, fluttering little creature tenderly into his bosom while he descended The next evening ho remarked that it had made a much nicer pie than he expected.