IMMIGRATI0N.

Dunstan Times, Issue 508, 12 January 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

IMMIGRATION.

Any person residing in Europe tlesirious of obtaining an assisted passage to the Province of Otago in vessels under contract to proceed to that Province, 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 bcotluiul acting under his direction, before embarkation, of the sum of dZ for each adult of twelve yeifs old and upwards hut where.the intending immigrant is unable to pay the 51 above mentioned the Agent-General, or the Agent of the Piovinco in Scotland, acting under his direction, will have power to commute the cash payment into the giving a promissory note for 71. per adult; preference will, however, always be given to those who can pay the largest portion in cash. The promissory notes wi;l 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 oil'the whole amount within twelve months after arrival. 2. Children between one and twelve years, half price. Babies under twelve months, free. 3. Assisted passages will he afforded only to persons of the laboring class. 4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless be or she shall have been approved by the Agent-General in Loudon, 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. G. 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 diameter, and who are between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. 8. In certain other cases, with a view to the introduction of skilled labor in connection with capital for the establishment of woollen, linen, paper, or other manufactures, free passages will be given, of the conditions of which the Agent General in Lon don will from time to time be advised. Regulations for the introduction of Immigrants into the Province oj Otago on the nomination oj persons resident therein. 1. Persons residing within the Pro vince may obtain orders for passages from the United Kingdom to Otago for their friends or 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, Arrowtown, Clyde, Cromwell, Alexandra, Nasehy, St. Batime's, Roxburgh. Lawrence, Hyde, Switzers, Macraes ; and the Collector of Customs at Oamaru, who will forward tho applications from time to time to the Provincial Immigration Office, at litinedin. Forms of application may be ohtaided from each of the above Officers. 2. in the event of any immigrant appliid for as aforesaid declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been desposed with the Government will he returned, so soon as the AgentGeneral of the Colony, or the British Agent of the Province, shall have apprised the Government thereof. In the event, however, of any immigrants applied for as aforesaide accepting the offer of a passage in a particuliar ship and failing to present the themselves at the time and place appointed for embarkation, tho money deposited as aforesaid shall be forfeited. 3. The Agent-General of the Colony or the Agent of the Province in Scotland, acting under his direction, as the case may be, shall have power to refuse passages to any persons nominated as aforesaid, in the event of the physical health or moral character of the person so nominated not being satisfactory to suchAgents,in whichcasethe money deposited shallbe returned.