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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5139, 12 September 1877, Page 2

The Agent-General reports to the Government the departure of the following emigrant ships: —Waitangi, from Plymouth for Lyttelton, on 12th July; with ' 258 souls; J. N. Fleming, from Glasgow for Port Chalmers, on 14th July, with 249 ; and Wairoa, from Plymouth for Wellington, on 15th July, with 199. Sir Julius Yogel says he has so arranged the departure of ships that in all probability the whole number of emigrants required for the year will have reached New Zealand by February,- In selecting emigrants preference has been given to those nominated and single women. The British Consul at Dantzig reports to the Foreign Office that the German Government has published in official journals at Berlin and other cities of the empire a statement pointing out in forcible language the unsuitableness of New Zealand for German immigrants, saying that those Germans who have immigrated to New Zealand have met with only trouble and disappointment, that the Southern provinces refusing to receive them they were sent to Wellington, and although offered some work there by Government their only desire was to get back to Germany. A copy of this having been referred to Sir Julius by the Foreign Office, he refutes the allegations, and states that none but a few Italians had not done well in the colony, and they (the Italians) had been aided to leave.