NEW PLYMOUTH.
This day. Major Atkinson addressed a very large meeting here last night. He went over much the same ground as at the previous meeting, but with reference to immigration he said he regretted the system of nomination of immigrants that bad been suspended, and thought it a great mistake. He was quite prepared to support a vote for that purpose, but doubted whether it would be wise in going further. He thought that the direct steamers were a good advertising medium, and if they could be subsidised so as to get the passage money reduced to about the same amount as a passage from England to America, they would soon divert the stream of immigration to this colony. A unanimous vote of confidence was carried.
Mr Samuel, M.H.K., leaves for Weilcngton by steamer to-day. He has had a presentation of a case of apples from Te Whiti, that chief forwarding them as a proof of good will.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5116, 10 June 1885, Page 2
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