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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 198, 20 August 1872, Page 2

Foreign Immigration. — In a letter from the Colonial Secretary, dated May 21, Dr. FeatberstoD, the Agent General in London, regrets the apprehension excited in the minds of the colonists of New Zealand by the arrant?enaents made by him for the promotion of immigration from Germany and Scandinavia, and trusts that such apprehension will be alloyed by the statemeut that ia the three months ending 3rd June last, there would be despatched from the United Kingdom a number of emigrants equal to 2,000 statute adulls, and frora the two countries above alluded to not more thun 700. Contracts had been entered into for sending out Germans and Scandinavians to the number of 6,000, but these would terminate in two years, when emigration frora all foreign countries might be suspended if i£ were deemed advisable. "I, myself," says Dr Feathers ton, " should deeply regret such a step, not only because I regard New Zealand as a field capable of absorbing any amount of immigration, but also because lam satisfied that many industries, such for example, amongst many others, as the culture of the vine, the manufacture of sugar from beet, and of paper from wood, and the preparation of dessecated milk, can only be successfully established in New Zealand by means of emigrants from the countries in which, those industries are thoroughly understood, and have been long carried on. It is recognised on all sides, by its opponents equally as by its supporters, that the present policy of the Government can only be carried out successfully by an immediate and large influx of population. To limit the emigration to the United Kingdom might render it impossible to supply the colony's urgent demand for labor; might indefinitely delay the execution of the great public works to which : the colony is committed ; might eventually increase their cost, and, as a necessary result, render the payment of the interest on the borrowed money, by which those works are undertaken, ap intolerable burden. At the same time, it will, I trust, be clear from the strenuous efforts, made! to promote emigration from the United Kingdom^ and from the stream already : flowing, and jv.hich is daily assuming larger and larger dimensions, that it is neither my intention nor. desire to 'flood the colony with foreigners to the exclusion or detri- ■ 'ment :^f i 6ur J oWn;'cb^ntry.meQ^' l ' > :;^ v J"^: ■ A; Ghichago? Journal considers the \ destruction of about a cartload of •'original : poetrjr/': in ■;■{'&• office Wthe raps tf gi atify ing j )feftture ! " : drt&^fire^ Jh] , j> ; : r i:; y 7^f '% '■ .V • ■ ■ " '■,-'-. •■•'•'•• (•" ■ • .' ' : ' - •" ,■•' ■'■ . .-''

Where He Would be.— A London gent, walking in Dublin for the first time, got into', conversation, with a native, and chaffed him considerably, winding up with this smart observation, 1 "Now, tell me, Fat. where you would be if Satan got his due." Pat replied with feigned simplicity, " Shure, then, I'd be aionp, yer honour."It is worthy the consideration of miners whether they might not procure the assistauce of the spirit world in prospecting for gold. The spirits appear to bo some authority on the subject, for in a recent speech on the gold duty, Mr Macandrew, M.H.U., said : — "He quite concurred with what hail fallen from the hou. the Premier as to the amount of gold in the country. He believed they were merely scratching it ; he had the authority of a gentleman who had had communication with the spiritual world. Hon. members might laugh, but ho was told very seriously that that gentleman hud been informed by the spirits that there was more gold in New Zsalaud than iron."