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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 191, 9 December 1874, Page 4

A private letter received by a gentleman in Anckfand, says that Mr Stewart's first ship with immigrants for , a special settlement at Tauranga, sails from England in March next, for Auckland. ■■ , A shipment of twelve nightingales, eighty. hedge sparrows, and twenty-two " white throats, was' made by the Glenlora, now on her passage from London to Auckland. Mr HUlop, jeweller, Dunedin, has on exhibition in his window a magnificent cake of gold, weighing 1200 ounces, . the product of the crushing of 250 tons of stone from the Cromwell Qaarbcmioing Company's reef. The cake measures about twelves inches aerosa and eight inches deep. We learn from the London Printer's BegitUr that an evening paper, to be printed in French, is to be published in London. ,^625,000 have been sub* scribed for the purpose. It is calculated that there are a sufficient number of Frenchmen in London to support such a journal. *, A correspondent^ the Thames Advertiser writes as "follows : — "It is y •tated on good authority that the Py and O« Company made several offers t* take up the Califoroisn mail servic/ bat all were declined on account of toe dread of a monopoly. The four boats built to the order of Forbes and Hall, in England, are likely to be procured for a permanent service, as the maklrs find a difficulty in disposing of tbjra * through being specially designed tor trade in the tropics. The buildle telegraphed to Sydney making several offers, : Mr Eussell has gone, empowered to treat with them." > Immigration to South Canterbury, the Timaru Herald remarks, appears -- to have died a natural death. The influx of laborers, which four or five months, ago promised to place this district in a more advantageous position than it had ever before enjoyed, has now ceased altogether „ the rate of | wages is as high as eVer, and nothing |- like a full supply of hands can be obtained by offering even , that; this fe year a« in past years, before- immigra- ? tion to the district began, the road tpbwrdi hare given notice of disoonrff^ftoriig maca needed improvement!

during the harvest months; and there seems to be every indication ot dearth and difficulty in carrying on funning operations, not to mention public works, in the course of the approaching summer. Even in Christchurcb, where the majority of the immigrants who arrive in the province congregate, there is no want of employment, nor haa the rate of wages been materially affected by tho large additions which have been made to the laboriDg population in the last twelve months.