IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2786, 22 January 1872, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

The following new regulations, under the provisions of “The Immigration and Public Works Act, I8T0,” are published in the New Zealand Gazelle of January G 1. Each applicant will be required to pay, at the time of making the application, the sum of L 5 for each adult (except single women) and L2 10s for each child between the ages of one and twelve years, whom it is desired to have introduced into the Colony. Infants in arms, under one year, free. This rate being only for the ship’s passage from London (or such other port as the ship may sail from) to the Colony, the cost of reaching speh port of sailing in Europe and proceeding up the country to their friends after arrival in the Colony," will have to be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 2. Free passages will be granted to single women between the ages of 12 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the AgentGeneral in London. _ 3. In the event of any emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Government will be returned to the applicants so soon as the Agent-General in England shall have apprised the Government thereof; hut in the event of any emigrants applied for accepting the oiler of a passage in a particular ship, and so by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time aud port appointed by the Agent-General in England for the sailing of such ship, he left behind, the passage money and passages will be forfeited. 4. Applicants in the colony, when writing to the persons for whose passages they have applied, should distinctly inform them that no 'part of the passage money paid in the colony will be returned, if they omit to w.ite to the Agent General in Loudon, telling him that they decline the passages offered to them. . , .. 6. Notwithstanding anything herein to tiae contrary, the Agent-General in London will have power to refuse passages where the im tending emigrants are in ill health, or in any way unlittal, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage. . 7. Forms of application may bo obtained at any post office in tbe 1 olouy, but passage moneys can only be paid at any money order post office in the Colony.