IMMIGRATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4022, 17 January 1876, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

By the San Francisco mail the report of the Agent-General for the month of October has arrived. Wc have been already advised by telegram of the vessels despatched with immigrants during that month; the total number of immigrants sent during the mouth was 1784 souls, Tho vessels appointed to sail during November v,; :IVi t.ibu about 1500 immigrants, of whom 800 had been accepted and had paid their outfit nomes, Xb« Agent-General was endea

voring to engage "a vessel to take emigrants from the Clyde direct to the Bluff, to sail in December and January, but the shipowners stated that there was no cargo for that port from the Clyde, and that they therefore could not send a vessel direct unless a higher rate of passage-money were paid than that which is allowed under the new charter party, and to this the AgentGeneral did not feel at liberty to accede. The emigrants taken by the Corona to Port Chalmers completed the number ordered for that part of the Province of Otago. The Agent-Ccueral had, however, received a letter from Messrs Auld and Andrew, acting as agents to the Provincial Government of Otago, stating that they had received instructions from the Superintendent of Otago to send emigrants from the Clyde to Port Chalmers at the rata of 100 per month. Messrs Auld and Andrew had therefore en faged one of Messrs Henderson’s ships, the Wellington, for that purpose, and she was to have sailed about December 15, The Agent-General would take the opportunity to send by the Wellington any nominated emigrants that might be ready to go. Messrs Burton and Holloway had continued during the month to hole! meetings and deliver lectures in various country districts in the Midland Counties. Mr Holloway had ougauised a series of meeting in the districts in the neighborhood of Merc, in the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, to take place during the month,—‘X. Z. Times.’