DISPATCH FROM THE AGENTGENERAL.
♦ (per press association) WELLINGTON, This day. The Agent-General, writing under date March 19, states that he has decided to entertain applications from a few married Scotchmen, who are either shepherds or farm laborers, providing they are prepared to pay fall passage money for any children they may hate, and £5 towards their own. He also reported that four cases had resulted fatally from typhus fever, which he mentioned last mail, had broken oat among emigrants on board the Oxford. A rumour was current that the fever originated in the immigration depSt, and there were other complaints made by the emigrants as to ship provisions, etc., into which he was making full enquiry, and would not express any opinion at present, beyond that some of the complaints appeared to him well founded, whilst others were frivolous and much exaggerated. His reason for suspending emigration until after June is so as not to have thejpeople arriving in the colony in winter.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1030, 4 May 1883, Page 3
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163DISPATCH FROM THE AGENTGENERAL. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1030, 4 May 1883, Page 3
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