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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4462, 8 July 1875, Page 2

In our summary of news for the out-going mail on Monday last, we mentioned that abundant evidences were not wanting of the powers of this colony to absorb a large number of immigrants. The monthly mail summary of the Otago Daily Times is before us, and in it we find the following confirmation of our statements :—“ The Earl of Zetland’s immigrants were particularly fortunate in reaching their destination at a time when the market was in a dearth for labor. Upon the first opportunity they had of offering themselves for engagement, within a very short time all the single girls—about thirty in number—were employed as general servants, at wages averaging from £25 to £3O per annum, Married couples receive £65, and single men £55, with board and lodging. Early the same afternoon no less than eight girls were bespoken by the next vessel. As instancing the absurdity of the statements of those discontents who assert that laborers are as well paid at home as in this colony, wo were recently informed by two Oxfordshire men, passengers by the Earl of Zetland, that in the old country they only received 14s. a week, with a house_ to live in, having to support a family of six children, and provide them with food, firing, and all the other necessaries of life, on that miserable pittance.”

Some time since our Dunedin correspondent told a merry story in connection with the Governor’s levee, at the expense of Dr. Bakewoll, a well known medical mau in that city. That story was reprinted in the Otago Guardian, Dr. Bakewell wrote to that paper denying the truth of the story, and producing the evidence of his Excellency the Governor.