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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5142, 15 September 1877, Page 3

The Northern Argus gives the following actvice to intending emigrants to New Caledonia: —“New Caledonia being a French settlement, besides being the penal settlement for the worst description of criminals, the manners and customs existing there will bo found exceedingly irksome to those who have been accustomed to the liberty and freedom enjoyed under British law. As, to all intents and purposes, martial law exists all over the island, the free and independent Britisher finds, on arrival there, the place is anything but a pleasant location. He will find that he cannot go and come as he likes, but that, in Noumea more especially, he is compelled to extinguish all the lights in his house—if he have one—at a certain hour, and that if he should happen to be out late at night, if he cannot give a satisfactory account of himself, the local police quietly take charge of him for the night. From the above and various other causes, persons who have lived in Queensland or any other British colony will not improve their prospects or comfort by emigrating to New Caledonia.” A meeting of the Victorian Manufacturers’ and Exhibitors’ Association was held recently in Melbourne, when the constitution of the royal commission appointed in connection with the Paris Exhibition was warmly criticised, and the following resolution was passed:— “ That in consideration of the humiliating display made by this colony at the Philadelphia Exhibition, this association urges on the Government the necessity of taking such steps as