TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1198, 31 July 1874, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

The following telegram, dated Oct. 11, 1573, from Mr Vogel to Dr. Featherstou, is worth studying, as showing what a mass of information or instructions may be . crowded into a few words :—"Am Immigration Minister. Correspond direct. Address telegrams ' Vogel' Melbourne,' forwarding arranged. Your telegram about short shipments reached us when colony much complaining want of labor. Although numbers increased, immigrants wholly inadequate. Government decided that until otherwise instructed you are to grant free passages ; .also, if necessary, advance expenses to port embarkation and outfit. But exercise great stringency in selection. Government doubt efficiency of selection by agents paid petemigrant ; prefer trusting officers paid salary. To prevent short shipments and increase emigration, keep emigrants in depot in advance of ships sailing, to enablo you to fill every vessel. To prevent short shipments, send emigrants for any port New Zealand, for trans, shipment on arrival. This direction only to prevent short shipments. .Otherwise send emigrants direct to desfiliation. Besides October ship for Napier, send with utmost despatch another ship ; Ormond wants thousand immigrants as quickly as possible. Endeavor charter two fine fast steamers leave early December, one Canterbury, one Otago, each bring six to eight hundred emigrants. Follow this instruction though steamers cost twenty pounds per adult, though anticipate less. Positively preclude steamers touching Australian ports. Try through respectable brokers get Canard or other firstclass steamers, show how pleasantly passage may be made. Besides steamers,

push on emigration to all parts of colony utmost consistent with careful selection, by granting free passages to all suitable emigrants, and widely announcing same, Glad if during six months you could send twenty thousand. Don't send all from England. Try despatch some ships from Glasgow, Belfast, Queenstown. Continue sending Scandinavians, Germans. Consider these instructions imperative. Fully cable proceedings consequent thereon. Suggest try obtain co.operation of organization Joseph Arch connected with; Would you like lecturer, and some persons acquainted with Colony suitable for agents sent you ?—Featherstone, London."