IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 September 1880, Page 3

IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.

Perhaps there has been no official de- ££!*> woefully mismanaged by the I Government as that of unmigraand there is scarcely, a week passes *wlT£e« not afford a fnghtfnl example tSeSfulness of the statement. In if i-!Jnr last an agent m Auckland, act- ? eb ? or a resident on the West !^Jnominated his relatives in England C - the regulations for nominated onae -Lmts anl paid the required deThey were to come to Auckand" the party consisted of the : * «Mer of the gentleman referred to, two sons, aged 22 and 25 SMo daughters, aged from 15 to 27 The young men were practical f 3r !.« and the young women all PXoJ to farm and dairy work. They bt °f,H have brought sufficient capital after TSfcTof their stock, &c, to have d ltd them to buy land and go upon -/After being kept unsettled for months tn their future proceedings and pro--33 !ts the Auckland agent by last SP !rtrtn man received from the immigration aShorities notice that the parties Stated could not be brought under the «!nated regulations, but mast pay their desired to come out. B °tKst English mail he also received f Li from the intending immigrants that, Sd of l»»g humbugged, they contemt.%d<TOuvto Canada under a settlement *fi Jme bywhich the authorities elected to S( r; free passages to three members of any hm3r (d«"7 approved) which would go Tittle on the land set apart for Centra! occupation. Even this will it settle the difficulty concerning this ? *fhr for the unfortunate Auckland nt has yet to extract his HO deposit tam the Wellington Treasury, and it is Probable that half of it will have gone in I at time before that operation has been anccessfaHy accomplished If, instead f bein" practical agriculturists, with small capital, the nominated party had t B0 Birmingham pinmakera and wireworkers, in all probability they would Ixn been here months ago, and on rations at the Immigration Barracks.—Exchange.