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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 379, 18 February 1864, Page 1

Immigration Regulations. i Superintendent's Office, 1 THE Provincial Government having made arrangements for a line of Emigration! from Great Britain to Wellington, persons desirous of availing themselves, of it on behalf of relatives or friends, are requested to make application in writing to this office,! particularising the names, probable ages, callings, and places of residence of the proposed Emigrants. 2. The Rate of Passage Money will be fixed until further notice at £ls (fifteen .pounds) per statute adult. 3. Applicants may at the time of making their application either pay .£l2 (twelve ; pounds) per adult, as the whole amount of their contribution, or pay half the passage money, giving- security for the payment of the other moiety on arrival of the party sent for, with the understanding that, on payment of the last mentioned moiety at the time above specified, they will be entitled to a bonus of £3 (three pounds) per adult, but not otherwise. 4. In case of any Emigrant applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, but not presenting himself for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the Agent in England for the sailing of such vessel, and so being left behind, onehalf of the passage money will be forfeited. 5. In the event of ’any parties applied for declining to emigrate, the amount deposited in this office will be returned, so soon as the English agent shall have apprised the Provincial Government thereof. 6. All ships employed in this service being under the provisions of the-“. Passenger Act,” every means will be used to secure the comfort and welfare of the passengers. , JOHN KNOWLES, Immigration Clerk. Form of Promissory Note. (Date) £ Stg.. On Demand, We, the undersigned jointly and severally promise to pay to the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, or his order, the sum of —Pounds, (Signatures 7 of Sureties.) § I — : —— February 11, 1864. ,

Japan. —The Morning Post's Paris cor-j respondent says that the Japanese have! applied to the French Government to in-! vite the good offices of France in suspend-: ing naval operations in Japan. j The German Congresses of next year! will include a Congress of “ bagmen ” — j travellers for mercantile houses. They, propose, as their particular aim, an on-j slaught on the overcharges of hotels and inns. | [ Increased Sale of Woollen Cloth.; —The sale of woollen cloth has increased [within a short time both in Paris and ini the provincial towns. The use of light 1 cloth for ladies’ dresses has.become more] general since cotton goods have risen in price. | It is announced in the Paris papers that the brothers Godard are about to make a balloon to contain _14,000 cubic, metresjofgas, whereas M. Nadar’s “Giant ” only contained 6000. New Diving Apparatus. —Jt the last sitting of the French Academy of Sciences, a new apparatus for enabling persons to remain under water, or in places filled with deleterious gasses, was described. The apparatus consists of a piece of wood having the form and dimensions of the human mouth when open. To this piece of wood two indiarubber tubes are fixed, of any length, according to the exigencies of the case. Thejman engaged intheoperationis further provided with a nose pincher , or instrument for compressing the nostrils, so as to prevent the introduction of the deleterious gas or of water, as the case may be. The operator puts the piece of wood into his mouth, and puts on the nosepincher ; he stops up one of the orifices with his tongue, and inhales pure air from the other ; after which he shifts his tongue to the latter orifice, and exhales his breath through the other. He continuestlms regularly shifting his tongue from one orifice to the other in the order of the inspirations and expirations ; but even a mistake would be of little consequence. It is expected that the design of cutting a ship-canal from Dieppe to Paris, which was mooted sometime, since, will yet be carried out. The canal is intended to be so deep and wide as to allow ships of the largest; draught to reach the quays of the capital—and the undertaking if completed, will be a magnificent sop to Parisian vanity. . The Mammoth. —A very interesting disco veiy was'made at Leicester on Wednesday. A main sewer is in course of construction to relieve a portion of the town which is rapidly increasing, and the workmen uncovered what they at first supposed to be the base of a column, but what proved to be a very interesting memorial of a bygone age—a tusk of the elephas primigenus , or great mammoth. The discovery is of more interest from