GOVERNMENT IMMIGRANTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 609, 8 September 1858, Page 5

GOVERNMENT IMMIGRANTS.

Married Couples.—Thos. Goodger, wife, and r children; Wm. Edmonds and wife; Thos. Berry, wtfe and 2 children; Wm. Berry, wife, and 2 i Ulren- Samuel Witcliele and wife; Daniel Sater wife, and 4 children; Alfred Dray ton, wife and child; Elizabeth Swale and 3 children; t^ Youngman, wife, and 4 children; Eichard San, wife, and child; Ephrairn HoUindrake, and rifp- John Paget, wife and 5 children; Chas. W. Chambers, wife, and child; David Warman and S John Auckland and wife; Jas. Ross, wife, and 4 children; Jas.Parkes, wife, and 6 children; Tgo Clarke, wife, and 2 children; Samuel Goodman wife, and 3 children; Wm. Harris and wife; Tos Small and wife; Wm. Walton, wife, and Phild- Alex. Clarke, wife, and 5 children; John TDowns wife, and 2 children; Jacob Ladbrooke, wife and 2 children; Henry Terry, wife and 3 children- Stephen Johnson, wife, and 2 children; Glaus Mehrters, wife, and 2 children; Diednch 7weibruck, wife, and 2 children; William T)obson and wife; Joseph Cross, wife, and 4 children; Wm. Paddy, wife, and 3 children; John Brook, wife, and 2, children; Aaron Brainley wife, and child; Thos. Jones, and wife; Wm. Walker, wife, and 4 children; Wm. March, wife, and child; Peter S. Nielsen, wife, and 2 children; Joseph Clarke, wife, and child; John Woodard, wife, and child; Henry Wooding, wife, and 2 children; Thomas Ayres, wife, and 3 children; Wm Gibbs, wife, and 2 children; Geo. Duncan, wife, and child; Henry Sears, wife, and 2 children; Thomas Veysey, wife, and child; William Wright, wife,and 5 children; Robert Grimewood, wife, and 3 children; Wm. Wright, wife, and 2 children; Chas. Skeyington, wife, and 2 children; Fred. Ambler, and wife; Wm. Smith, wife, and child; Henry Taylor, and wife; Wm. Burnett, wife, and 3 children; Chas. Westfield, wife, and child; Geo. Winskile, wife, and 2 children; Chas. F. Worth, wife, and 3 children; Thos. Smith and wife; Chas. Trotman and wife; Jas. Bruce and wife; Chas. Smart, wife, and 4 children; Bartholomew Ward, wife, and 4 children; Alfred H. Morey, wife, and child; John Robinson, wife, and 2 children; Wm.Bundle, wife,and3children; Charles Prince and wife; Henry Tunkard, wife, and 5 children; John Ranley and wife; Thomas Prince, wife, and child.—69 families—l9l£ statute adults.

Single Men.—B. Bramley, W. Davis, J. Thin, G. Cooper, W. Brown, J. Scrutton, H. Teifert, E. Johnson, G. Cross, G. Paget, H. A. Pope, S. Ayres, J. Walker, W. Hopkinson, W. Berry, W. Howe, G. Drayton, W. Jones, J. Kerr, C. M. Jenkins, D. Bundy, A. Duncan, J. Mervin, B. Lewis, E. Youngman, T. Terry, John, Robert & James Grimwood, A. Land, G. Gibbs, C. Jervis, James, Edward, George & Samuel Ross, W. Goodman, J. Rhodes, Henry Levett &?2 sons, T. Lambert, A. Wright, T. Brooks, C. Brighting.— 44| adults. Single Women.—Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton and 2 children; Mrs. Caroline Simpson & 3 children; Mrs. Emily Angood & child ; Mrs. Mary Goodwin & child; H. Watson, M. Patrick, C. Norman, S. A. Berry, E. Adams, Sarah, Mary & Elizabeth Mariow, M. A. Walker, B. Grimwood, S. Cross, Ann and Susan Summers, M. A. Adams, M. A. Goodman, M. A. Brighting, Hannah and Sarah Paget, F. A. Terry, A. Clarke, R. Markham, Eliza, Susan, and Letitia Levett, Mary and Margaret Goodwin, Emily and Mary Ann Ward, J. D. Morey.—39 £ adults. SUMMARY. Passengers. Statute Adults. Chief cabin..:.. 17 Second do 9 Steerage 8 —34 Government Immigrants. Married couples and families 191£ Single Men 44£ „ Women 39£ 275| Total 309£ The Zealandia, we learn, had left Gravesend on the 16th June, and met with favorable winds down the Channel.

The screw steam ship Lord Ashley, intended for the intercolonial postal service between Melbourne and New Zealand, sailed on May 27, for Auckland direct, from Milford Haven. This vessel, which is the pioneer of this line, is the property of Messrs. Pearson, Coleman, & Co., who have taken up the contract for the service. The Lord Ashley is a fine vessel of 600 tons — builder's measurement—fitted with engines of 80 nominal and 240 indicated horse-power. Her speed has been tested at from 11 to 13 knots per hour. The arrangements for passengers are of a very high character, and the successful carrying out of this service will be hailed with acclamation in New Zealand, where its want has been one of the greatest drawbacks under which the colony has laboured. The Lord Ashley is the first vessel which has ever sailed from Milford Haven with emigrants to any of the southern colonies. About 60 passengers going out under the auspices of the provincial government of Auckland, embarked at Milford, the remainder having gone on board iv the Thames. The event was celebrated by an entertainment given by Messrs. Pearson, Coleman, & Co. The following is a list of her passengers:— Mr. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Giles, Mr. Stewart, Miss Hamblin, Mrs. Finlayson. Mr. Butler, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Hayman, Mr. Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Farron, Mr. and Mrs. Norfolk, and family; and 91 in the steerage.—Home News.

The agents of the provincial government of Otago have just despatched from the Clyde the Jura, with above 300 intermediate and steerage passengers. Mr. Adam, the author of the pamphlet descriptive of Otago, has returned to his adopted home in,this fine ship. The Lord Worsley, screw steamer, sailed the week before last from London to Otago, with a full complement of passengers.— lbid.

Passengers i-ek Chieftain, for Nelson and Canterbury, May 24.— Mr. W. Boorman. Mrs isooriuan, Mr. T. 11. Boorman, Mr. W. L. fowler, Mrs. Fowler, Miss E. Fowler, Mr E fowler, and four children, Mr. W. Lane, Mr. W. J. Ousely, Mr. John Tucker, and Mr. James luckcr.— lbid.

The Leviathan.—The Eastern S. N. Company propose to raise the £220,000 required lor the completion of the Leviathan by granting

annuities of £5, terminable in eight years, for a payment of £20. They have also decided that the vessel shall be permanently employed in the traffic between England and America. Portland, in the State of Maine, whence there is direct communication with all the principal railways of the United States and Canada, is to be the American port, and Holyhead or Liverpool will be selected on this side. The passage is hoped to be regularly accomplished in seven days, and it is considered that seven or eight voyages out and home may be performed yearly. An estimate is put forward of probable earnings, showing a net i)rofit of £17,700 per voyage. In this it is assumed the number of passengers each way will be 2100, and that the fares should be £21, £12, and £G for first, second, and third class.— lbid.

The Australian Mails Contract.—We believe that the statement with reference to the Cunard Company having taken the Australian mail contract is premature, although in the event of certain conditions being fulfilled, the company have made arrangements with the shareholders of the European and Australian Company for carrying on the service. Upon certain circumstances not yet determined the establishment of the line depends, and it would be unwise, therefore, to anticipate the result. We hope, however, that Liverpool, being the centre of trade with those colonies for England, Ireland, and Scotland, will be made the port of departure for the line; and, if our hope is fulfilled, we anticipate the best results, feeling assured from the precedents of the Cunard Company that the business will not be entered upon unless, in all human probability, success is certain. The bare announcement that such an alliance is probable will, we have no doubt, be hailed with the greatest satisfaction by all classes at the antipodes.— lbid.