The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1872.

Southland Times, Issue 1525, 16 January 1872, Page 2

The Southland Times. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1872.

Is" pursuance of the immigration part of the Public Works Act of 1870, a proclamation has been issued by His Excellency the Governor to which it is very desirable the attention of the public should be directed. The proclamation sets out with the statement that by virtue of the said Act it is amongst other things provided : — " That the Governor may, at the request of the Superintendent of any Province, from time to time make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the conduct of immigration into such Province, and for the nomination of immigrants by persons resident therein, and for the distribution of funds provided by the Act for immigration purposes, and for the introduction into and settlement in such Province of immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such immigrants any lands which he mny acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under 'The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1503,' or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such immigrants. And whereas by ' The Immigration and Public "Works Act Amendment Act, 1871,' it is, among other things, enacted that so much of the thirty-ninth and forty-first sections of the said Act as provide that any acts, matters, or things are to or may be done by the Governor at the request of the Superintendent of a Province, is thereby repealed ; and it is thereby enacted that the Governor may exercise all the powers, and do and perform all the acts, matters, and things in the said sections mentioned, without any request from any Superintendent of any Province or any other person or authority. And whereas, in pursuance of the power and authority contained in the said firstmentioned Act, the Governor, at the request of certain Superintendents of Provinces, did make certain regulations for the introduction of immigrants from Europe into those Provinces respectively, on the nomination of persons resident therein, it hath been determined to make other regulations in lieu of those so made as aforesaid." The proclamation then goes on in the usual formula of such enactments that the following has been fixed as a schedule of regulations for the introduction of immigrants from Europe on the nomiuatior. of persons residing in New Zealand. These regulations take effect from the 3rd January curreut : — " 1. Each applicant will be required to pay, at the time of making the application, the sum of £5 for eae'i adult, (except single women,) and £2 10s. for each child between the ages of one and twelve years, whom it is desired to have introduced into the Colony. Infants in arms, under one year, free. This rate being only for the ship passage from London (or such other port as the ship may sail from) to the Colony, the cost of reaching such port of sailing in Europe aud proceeding up the country to their friends after arrival in the Colony, will have to be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 2. Free passages will be graoted to single women between the ages of 12 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the Agent- General in London. 3. In the event of any emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Government will be returned to the applicants so soon as the AgentGeneral in England shall have apprised the Government thereof; but in the event of any emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a parlieular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves fur embarkation at the time and port appointed by the Agent-General in England for the sailing of such ship,

be left behind, the passage money and passages will be forfeited. 4. Applicants in the Colony, when writing to the persons for whose passages they have applied, should distinctly inform them that no part of the passage money paid in the Colony will be returned, if they omit to write to the Agent-General in London, telling him that they decline the passages offered to them. 5. The address of the Agent General in London is as follows : — The Agent- General for New Zealand, 7 Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S. W., London. 6. All the ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the 'Passenger Act.' 7. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, tho Agent-Gene-ral in London will have power to refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in ill heahh, or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake t the voyage. 8. Forms of application may be obtained at any Post Office in the Colony, but passage moneys can only be paid at any Orcbr Post Office in the Colony."