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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 60, 24 February 1868, Page 48

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 Tai anaki. It 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 passages were paid by the Government of Taranaki to Wanganui, and Major Durie has expressed his intention of sending them back, whioh we consider is the proper thing to do. What is unsuitable, in the population, for Taranaki, is also unsuitable for Wanganui, and although we have more life and public spirit than the people of our neighbouring province, we can assure them we are not less particular about our morals. We shall send toe emigrants back, with toe ‘polite request that the “ powers that be” in Taranaki, will be a little less selfish in future, andto do to their neighbors aB shey would like to be done by. We have got some bad characters in Wanganui, but have more regard for public deoenoy than to pay their passages to New Plymouth..

Another Invention by the Earl of Caithness.—-We (Northern Ensign) understand that a compass on. a new and important principle has been .made aud 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 toe 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, suoh as its not' being/affected by those influences that produqe motion on other compasses, the, absence of toe pendulum, &o, :• ■ '-I