The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1874.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 33, 8 July 1874, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1874.

The returns relating to the immigration to lire colony of New Zealand, which we publish to-day, will be interesting to almost every one of our readers. These immigrants are all either assisted or nominated, and it is curious to sec the proportions which are absorbed by each of too different provinces. Of course the two large southern provinces, viz., Canterbury, and Otago, take, the lion’s share, and 1 his is only as it should he, us they are moat likely from their extent, and

general prosperity at the present time, to find employment for a large number of working men from the old country. Wellington comes next in the number of immigrants, and without saying any word against the capabilities of the country, or the likelihood ot the number sent there being able to find work, yet we may fairly put down some portion of the large amount of immigration received by that province, to the Wellington proclivities of the Agent-General. We should have expected that Auckland would have been a larger recipient of population than Wellington, but the contrary is the case, and the number in favor of the latter province is no less than 163-1 souls, Wellington having received 4-107 persons and Auckland but 2773. Hawkes Bay, the next on the list, gets 1870 people and the remaining provinces of Taranaki, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland, only received 374 additions to their population. It will bo noticed that the increase in the number of assisted and nominated immigrants, is increasing in a larger ratio in those bound to Canterbury than any other province ; and, indeed, the number of new additions to our community, that wo may expect shortly from England, is actually larger than that of persons bound to Otago. We hope that the increase may be attended with good results, but we are rather afraid that at the present time the Government are slightly overdoing it, and that some of the new-comers will find it no easy matter to obtain remunerative employment. Some of the Auckland papers are furious against Dr Eeatherston and the office in London generally, and both are abused with great heartiness in the Northern province. But it is only the other day that we were informed from that quarter, that “the immigrants per Loch Awe, were the finest that had left England for a very long time.” If our Auckland friends get quality, it will pay them bettor than quantity, and they ought to be satisfied. Concerning the nationalities of the stream of human beings now flowing to our shores, it will be seen that the English number constitutes very nearly 00 per cent of the total, Irish as near as possible 16 per cent, Scotch 13 per cent, and the remaining eleven per cent is made up of other nationalities in which the principal increase has been in the additional number of Germans, Danes, and Norwegians, who have determined to make New Zealand their home. In the number of French immigrants there has been no change since July Ist, 1873, and it is never likely that many of this nation will be found here; added to which, the present state of things in France will find employment for all the able-bodied men in that country. Altogether the increase in population in the colony has been no less than twenty-two thousand six hundred souls ; and it is to be sincerely hoped that the country will soon be opened up in order to support them, more especially as under the Vogel regime we are to have this rate of increase kept up for some time longer.