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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 553, 20 February 1868, Page 3

Assisted Emigration.—The following paragraph appears in a recent number of the Wanganui Evening Herald:—lt appears the Government of Taranaki have adopted a very convenient method of getting rid of disreputable characters by paying their passage to Wanganui. It is very! kind of them, no doubt, to send us population, which is the very thing we want, but certainly not the dregs of Taranaki, [t will be seen in another column that two women have been brought up at the police court for keeping a house of ill-fame. Their oassages were paid by the Government of Taranaki to Wanganui, and Major Durie has < spressed his intention of sending them back, which we consider is the proper il ing to do. What is unsuitable, in the copulation, for Taranaki, is also unsuitable for Wanganui, and although we have more life and public spirit than the people of our neighbouring province, wo can assure them we are not less particular about our morals. We shall send the emigrants back, with the polite request that the “ powers that be” in Taranaki, will be a little less selfish in future, and to do to their neighbors as shey would like to be done by. We have got some bad characters in Wanganui, but have more regard for public decency than to pay their passages to New Plymouth. Akothsb Invention bt the Eabd o? Caithness.—We (Northern Ensign) understand that a compass on a new and important principle has been made and is being patented by the Earl of Caithness. The details of the invention are distinguished by great simplicity, and are such as will be of the utmost importance to seafaring men. The compass was tested on board the new steamer Russia, on the Clyde, the other day. and the result was in the highest degree to show its great superiority to that now in use. One of its chief recommendations is of course its simplicity, but there are other features, such as its not being affected by those influences that produce motion on other compasses, the absence of th« pendulum. &c.