IMMIGRATION MATTERS.
[per press association.] WELLINGTON, This day. The Agent-General, in a despatch under date March Ist, states that he has now suspended forwarding emigrants to the Colony until June, and has withdrawn the advertisements inviting applications. He mentions that the ship Oxford, bound to Wellington, which was dismasted in the Bay of Biscay, was to embark emigrants on 80th March. Dr Hasard, who is in charge of the emigrants, reports, on the 9th March, that typhoid fever had broken out, but there were only a few cases. A young woman named Sarah Stewart, who was one of the first to be attacked with the disease, had died, and another young woman was dangerously ill. Other cases were progressing favourably, and the doctor believed there would be no further spread of the disease. He attributes the outbreak to the emigrants, during the last few days they were on the Oxford, using water from the reserve tanks. The AgentGeneral instructed the Company to have the tanks pumped out, and take all precautions to prevent a recurrence af the disease. The inquiries respecting the Colony, he says, are on the increase.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1027, 27 April 1883, Page 3
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189IMMIGRATION MATTERS. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1027, 27 April 1883, Page 3
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