THE EXODUS FROM THE COLONY. Dunedin. April 10.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 5

THE EXODUS FROM THE COLONY. Dunedin. April 10.

Till, ' Stai " KUf- ,--" A special tdegiani -ent. to us by our Inveicai gill eoriespondenfc i>, we legiet to lincl, ver\ misleading. It m ( >s stated thai ihe ss. W-iirarapa. left the P>luH yesteiday for Melbourne full ot passenger.s. and that of 400 on boa id, \en> tew indeed booked in Imetea.) pill — the evident doniie being to make it appeal that, the bulk ot ihe p,is>-eiige] s weio iiom Dunedin and Noithi m jioit^. On m([uiiy in the piopci quaitcM, we lind th.ii the steamer did not (airy moie thcin 150 pa>senj.'ci-, of whom 9 saloon and 32 weie hocked at Dnned'n, .unl '26 . .doon «md 61! cerate paT-engei'n wen 1 booked at Northern poi Us. It \\a- .m uip.ited th.it there would be a lushtoi ilee!.i</e boith 1 -, and to meet t!n^,.ui\iliai y.-t.m<: a< eommodation was piovided loi 300 p.i^sen^ei-<: but it wa-^ not icq Hired, a^ theie, w<i,> only one poison who needed it. The Mai emend tli.it cargo had to be .shut out, on account of the pvebs ot passenoeis is equally i neon eel -- the faeth bein<^ that the ship can take 750 tons, Iliad she hail 4'iOtoiiion leaving Bin ll, that space for 300 tons was loeived lor eai<ro await/ing shipment at liobait, and that all ear^o oilerin^ at New Zealand ports was shipped. We have hoard a deal ot late about the number ot people who aie leaving this colony tor Victoiia, and from facts that have come to our knowledge a suspicion crosses our mind that interested persons are manipulating the wires and using the newspapers in order to make it appear that our population is last leaving us. "

A comprehensive commorcial treaty is in coui'fo of negotiation between the United States and Mexico. The Dominion Government has decided to expend ft 15 ,000,000 during the ensuing 1 fiscal year on the enlargement, and at several points, the deepening of the St. Lawrence canals.