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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 December 1869, Page 2

Benevolent Institution. —The following is tho fo,vtpightly report of the institution Admitted", •£ boys ; discharged, 1 girl. Inmates, 3 old men, 4 tvomen, ‘.ft boys, and 27 girls ; total, 02. JJeiionnna-

tion—Church of England, ‘2B ; Presbyterians, 21 ; Homan Catholics, 9; ealeyana, 1 ; other denominations, •'). Out-door relief, 4 old men, 39 women, and 101 children ; total, 144. Denomination —Church of England, 49, Presbyterians, 1)9 ; Roman Catholics, 12; Wisleyans, 9; other denominations, 5. The weekly sum d.shurscd was Ll3 3s.

The Flax Commission'. — It fins been stated that communications addressed to the (Jouunissioiior, if superscribed, Public Sei vice. Flax Commission. ’ will be transmitted through the post-office free of ebaree.

Blunders oe the Sim hits. — It is pretty well known iliat, some time ago, the proprietors of l[nmhu</, in order to tcsi- the efficacy'of “spiritism,” oll’ered a reward of LSO to any sprit medium able to read and describe a .sentence inclosed in a sealed envelope, and deposited in the l. niou Bank. Tins dial cage, published in every number of Jin mini / since, was by many regarded as the nearest approach to a joke made by that witty' journal ; but at length, not without surprise, the public lieanl that the challenge had been seriously accepted that two avowed spiritists bad uiid"rtaken to pcifoim the feat. We understand that the performance actually came oil yesterday, at the Union Bank, in the presence of several gentlemen, ind idb’g Mr Carlayuc, the bank manager, who o', cour.-e, took excellent care to have everyth ng done decently' and in order. But alas ! it scorns the media spirits were at fault. They may have called spirits from the vasty deep, but if so, the said spirits didn't e. .me ; or, if there came any response—the spirits rcplydng were still fai out at sea as to tli i nature of the sealed sentence. In short, the spirits told the media nothing—and they' told it to the audience. We bofievc the sentence itself will bo published in the next number of Handm;/. At least an announcement to that dlcct appeared in our contemporary s latest issue. — A ;/e.

Yalue oe Immigration.—At ti banquet to which the doctors of the Lincoln district (in Canterbury) entertain.d their representatives in the Provincial Council, the health of Mr Fitzgerald was proposed in most eulogistic terms, and that gentleman, after humorously' thanking them for their kindness, said * that coming once more amongst his old friends, a most in the cnaracte:°of a stranger, lie was on his arrival iu the Province, struck with the appearance of wealth, and of the creation of wealth iu all directions —an appearance nc believed, by no other Province iu New Zealand, save, perhaps Otago, which he had not seen for a number of years. Hicy' a ere creating wealth at such a rate in Canterbury, that iu a short time they' eouldu t hoip feeling it, and he believed also that a short time would suffice to elevate the Province to that position from which it ought nee cr to have retreated. He adverted to the present high rate of taxation (namely’, from L 4 to L 5 per head of the population) and advocated a genera! system of emigration, by means of which they' could get the people of England here to participate in existing burthens. A colony devoid of iimnigra'iou was devoid of cauital. Lot them immigrate as fast as they' would, capital would follow even quicker. Let them bear iu mind that they canm here to be a great nation, not a number of insignificant parishes as the Provinces were now. —(Cheers.) —A. feeling had arisen in Australia some time ago, and in New Zealand also, that the introduction of immigrants would lower the scale of wages. In his opinion, it would have exactly the opposite result. Create less, and they would have less money' to pay in wages ; create more, and the more money would they have to pay in wages. When he first came to the Province wages were 3s fid a day. Then a flow of immigration took place, and wages got up to Ss and I()s per day. It would be so again. There was no solution to the Native war except by increasing the European population. Ho was curtain that the sure way of putting down rebellion was to render all resistance to the law absolutely hopeless. —(Hear, hear.) —And this could only be clleetcd by a general scheme of immigration.