GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 444, 7 January 1867, Page 3

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.

[IV. Z. Examiner, 10th Oct.] The returns issued by tbe Government L migration clhciais at Liverpool ' show an enormous decrease in the emigration for the quarter ending 30th September from that port. As usual the larger proportion of the people emigvaung from Liverpool belong to Ireland, and the following are the relume oi lire siups and passengers which have left the Mersey during the past quarter. The ships sailing under the act to the United States were 65, with 17,44 cabin and 19,589 steerage passengers : to Canada 10 ships, with <iwu camn and 1‘0,41 steerage passengers ; to Queensland 1 ship, with 4 cabin and 226 steerage passengers; to Victoria 5 ships with 47 cabin and 1t,38 steerage passengers; and to South America 1 ship, with 3 cabin and 72 steerage passengers—making a total of 82 ships, with 2218 cabin and 34 steerage passengers. The ships sailing from Liverpool without undergoing Government supervision are as follows:—To the United States 29 ships with 19,33 cabin and 23,208 steerage passengers; to Canada 6 ships, with 194 cabin and 34 steerage passengers ; to New Brunswick 1 ship with 4 cabin passengers; to Nova Scotia 1 ship, with 34 steerage passengers ; to Newfoundland 1 ship, with 5 cabin passengers; to New South Wales 2 ships with 5 cabin and 17 steerage passengers; Victoria 3 ships, with 26 cabin and 128 steerage passengers ; to the West Indies 5 ships, with 32 cabin passengers ; to South America 15 ships, with 149 cabin and 96 steerage passengers; to the Sandwich Islands 1 ship, with 4 cabin passengers ; to West Coast of Africa 4 ships, with 61 cabin passengers ; and to the East Indies 4 ships, with 17 cabin passengers—making a total of 72 ships, 2,430 cabin and 422 steerage passengers. The grand total for the quarter is 154 ships and 28,558 passengers, whicli when compared with the corresponding quarter, shows a decrease of 10,691 emigrants.

The Revenue of New Zealand, i : —The Spectator makes the following i remarks on the elasticity of the resour- 1 ces of the Colony : —There is something wonderful in the revenue of New i Zealand. Little more than 200,000 Settlers, and say 80,000 Maories, pay a revenue of over ,£900,000 and nut much short of £1,000,000, and this exclusive of the land sales. No country in Europe pays anything like so much —certainly more than £4 per head including even the Maoris, And from £1 to £2 a head is paid for local rates. If the Home Government, which through Sir G. Grey and Sir D. Cameron, has half led New Zealand into the recent mess, out of which their own colonial troops have chiefly rescued them, would but give New Zealand a moderate sum down, its future finance would be tolerable plain sailing. Great Britain’s Revenue. —The same journal has the following :—The Quarter’s Revenue Table for the 29th of September exhibits new proofs of the elasticity of the national income. Although there is a deficiency on the year as compared with last year of £798,517, that is much less than the reductions of taxation which have taken place w ere estimated to produce; and compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, that just concluded yields an increase (exclusive of New Zealand repayments) of £233,706. The lowering of the incoue tax, tea duty, &c., by the budget of 1865, Mr. Gladstone estimated would affect not only the revenue of that year, but this also to a far greater extent than appears to have been realised; and there were, besides, the reductions on timber wine, and pepper made by the last budget. The gross receipts for the quarter were swollen by the repayment by the tiovernmeut of tne colony o{ £500,000 New Zealand Bonds. The Honor of tun flag-,—According to the Gazette of Trieste, the prisoners arrived in that city relate the following:— “ While the ironclad frigate RedTtalia was sinking, two Austrian etlc-ers jumped into s boat and rowed towards the stern of the frigate, in order to seize the Italian flag which was flying there. But an Italian officer lasd bold of it although he could see the ship was on the point of sinking, and firing a revolver at the Austrians, went- down, preserving ---j \ with the vessel rather than deliver up the <?nemp.”