IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2683, 22 September 1871, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

The Provincial Government, in determining to avail itself of the provisions of the Immigration Act of 1870, adopted the following minute; — 1. That the General Government be rennested to provide, in terms of the Immigration and Public Works Act, for the transport to this Province of such immigrants from Europe as may obtain pa-sage orders issued upon the application of friends in the Province, or as may be selected by the agents of provincial Government in Europe, in accordance with instructions sent from hence. 2 That the assistance of the AgentGeneral for the Colony be requested in the promotion of a special settlement or special settlements on Stewart’s Island, consisting of families from the Shetlands, Orkneys, and north of Scotland, or from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, who might be induced, by low rates of passage and free grants of land, with the condition of _ years’ residence, to combine under the auspices of home, associations or companies in the formation of such settlements. . 3. That the assistance of the AgentGeneral of the Colony in Europe he requested in promoting special settlements in this province of congeries of families engaged in particular industries —such, for instance, as Welsh flannel makers, stockiug-loom workers —to he planted on suitable blocks of land, and townships specially set apart for them, with individual grants of acres of land to each head of a family, and acres for each child, who should join in such settlements and contribute to work in the same for years at the particular industries with which they are cpnnected. In transmitting the minute to Wellington on May 5, the Superintendent suggested that “ the Immigration Department hero should at once publicly notify its readiness to provide passages for applicants on payment of L 5 per statute adult, such payment to be lodged in the Provincial Treasury and passed over to the colonial chest so soon as advice of the shipment of tho immigrants shall have reached the colony," and remarked that it woiild be observed that “we propose to retain the services of the present Otago Agency, not with a view of interfering with the operations of the Agent-General, or of in any ■Way competing with him- in thp puUicr of immigrtion; but r ther’for the purpose of cooperating with him; and inasmuch as that the agency is now of nearly thirty years’ standing, has worked very successfully, considerthe means at his disposal, and possesses a considerable connection throughout the United Kingdom."