IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 2

IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

By an Order in Council under date Auguat 31, the following additional regulations for nominating immigrants were adopted : 1. Except as hereinafter provided, nominations of the following classes only will be accepted, viz.:—

Agricultural laborers, such as farm servants, navvies, shepherds, carpenters, country mechanics, &c, and Single women suitable for domestio Bervlce, Rich as cooks, housemaids, general servants, dairymaids, &c. 2. Married men must bo under forty-five years of age, single men under forty years of age and single women between fifteen and thirty-five years of age. 3. Free passages will not be granted to more than three children uuder twolve years of a«e ju one family; but the number in execs may be paid for at the current rate of passage. 4. Immigration officers may provisionally ac repfc nominations of persons not eligible under the foregoing regulations if satisfied as to the prospect of employment upon arrival, &o.; but such nominations will be subject to the apP r « va J "f the Minister for Immigration. .>. Lhc Minister for Immigration may authorise payment in cash of such an amount aa he may think fat to be taken for the passage of persons, who under the foregoing regulations or in his opinion are ineligible for free passages; and nominators may also deposit with immigration officers any sums they may desire the Ageut-General to advance to their friends for outhtor other embarkation expenses. o I crams wishing to obtain labor ©f a particular clhbs may send instructions to their rrieuds or agents at Home through an immigration officer, and such agents will be accredited to the. Agent-General, who will provide the Pol-sons selected by them with passages, should he deem them suitable.