WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2196, 21 May 1908, Page 4

WELLINGTON.

(.Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON,. May 11). ASSISTED IMMIGRATION. One hundred of the four hundred passengers who arrived by. the. Anionic vesterdav were assistedimmigrants anil most of these have friends and relatives in the Dominion. Ihoro is a keen demand for the domestic nervants who have come out, by noon todnv Some 20 of the new arrivals have called at the Labor Department, and 10 of them were at oneo put in the wav of suitable employment, (lie new immigrants are a likely looking lot Of TOO fig people amongst them are two 'farmers who have a capital of £BOO each.

NEW PAR Id AMENT HOUSE. Members are already marking off their seats on the “box plan” tor the new Parliament House. A large quantity of the Government House lurnitnre is being sent up to Auckland bv the Tutanekai, and a considerable (inantitv is being sent by rail to the Governor’s now residence at 1 almerston North.

* SHIPWRECKED SAILORS. It lias been decided by the Marine Department to add tea, sugar, tobacco, and pipes to tlie stores at the; various depots which it has established on the outlying islands, lor the benefit of shipwrecked sailors, lliero are now, says the “Post,” 10 depots distributed as follows: Auckland Islands four, Campbell Island one, Antinodes one, Bounties one, Kerin a decs two (one Oil Curtis Is and and the other on McCauley Island), Three Kings one. The provisions at each depot on the Southern Islands include 12001bs of biscuit (cabin bread), and lOOlbs of beef dripping, and there are also medicines, a gun and cartridges matches, 12 suits of warm clothes, 1pairs of boots, 12 woo! on singlets 12 shirts, 12 pairs of thick drawers, fishiiv- lines, fish hooks, etc. H.M.Ss. Pegasus, which will leave lor the Antipodes to-morrow, will take another supply of stores for the depot there, and provisions lor the depots on the other southern out-lying islands will betaken by the Hinemoa. -Forty-litc tins of biscuits wero not touched bj the shipwrecked crew of the President Felix Fanro during their sojourn at the Antipodes. PERSONAL. Dr. Mason, of the Health Depni .- meiit. is indisposed, aiul the Hon. Mr Carroll is still on the sick list, b it Improving. Air. Walter Leslie, of the Hansard stafE, who has been seriously ill with a heart attac'k, is also „rt ting better.