The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3938, 12 August 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881.

Besides the small expenditure that will probably take place upon public works during the coming year, that upon immigration is likely to be also very limited. The Premier, in his late Statement, referred to the subject of immigration in the following words :—" Operations under this head have been almost suspended during the past year. The state of the labour market is not at all such that we should be justified in attempting to renew a large assisted immigration. Believing, however, as we do, that a considerable addition to the population of New Zealand is as necessary for the development of its resources as to the prosperity of those who are now settled within its borders, we look forward to being able at no distant.date to again afford facilities for the introduction of suitable immigrants, but at present circumstances do not permit us to do more than to assist a number of persons who have been to some degree surprised by the suspension of subsidised immigration, to extend this assistance to a very limited number of single women and of nominated immigrants, who are anxious to join their relations in the colony.