PAPERS RELATING TO IMMIGRATION.

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ment in such Province of immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such immigrants any lands which he may acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under " The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1803," or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such immigrants: And whereas William Fitzherbert, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, hath requested me, Sir George Ferguson Bowcn, the Governor of New Zealand, to make regulations under the provisions of the said "Act as and in manner hereinafter set forth: Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the 41st section of " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and in compliance with the request of the said Superintendent, do hereby make the following regulations, that is to say : — Regulations for the Introduction of Immigrants into the Province of Wellington, on the Nomination of Persons resident therein. 1. Each applicant will be required to pay the sum of £5 for each adult at the time of making the application, and £2 10s. for each child between the ages of one and twelve years. Infants in arms, under one year, free. This rate being from London to Wellington only, the cost of reaching London and proceeding up the country after arrival in Wellington will have to be defrayed by the emigrants themselves. 2. As a rule, no unmarried females can be provided with passages under these regulations, excepting they accompany and are under the care of some specified relative or friend. Passages for unmarried females not so accompanied can only be granted subject to the Agent-General in England being able to make suitable provision for oversight during the voyage. 3. In the event of any emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Government will be returned so soon as the Agent-General in England shall have apprised the Government thereof; but in the event of any emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the Agent-General in England for the sailing of such ship, be left behind, the passage money and passages will be forfeited. 4. All the ships employed in this servico will be under the provisions of "The Passenger Act." 5. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent-General in England will have power to refuse passages where the intending emigrants are in ill health or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage. 6. Applications for passages are to be addressed to His Honor the Superintendent, Wellington, in the following form, viz.: — I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to Wellington, under the regulations of 30th May, 1871, of Name Age Calling Address in full for which I herewith pay the sum of , being equal to adults at £5 per adult, and hereby agree to receive the emigrants above named immediately on their arrival in Wellington. Dated this day of , 1871. {Signature and address of Applicant.) Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowcn, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued at Wellington, this twentyfirst day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. W. Grsi3Oß>'E.

No. 39. The Hon. "W". Gisbobne to His Honor W. Fitzhebbeet. Sin, — Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, Ist June, 1871. I do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th May (received here on the 30th), in which you recommend to the Government arrangements for immigration into the Province of Wellington for the ensuing twelve months, which you propose for adoption under the 39th clause of " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1570." The Government have no doubt that in making these proposals you have been guided by the well ascertained wants of the Province, as I notice with satisfaction that as regards the larger classes referred to in your proposals, it is in contemplation to settle them in " new country in the neighbourhood of public works." The Government being, however, directly responsible to the Assembly, feel themselves bound to see that due provision is made for the settlement of the immigration they are called on to authorize. With respect to Classes 1 and 4, namely, " 500 labourers, with their wives and families," and the "100 families, Scandinavian," I shall feel obliged by your furnishing the Government with plans of blocks of land reserved by your Honor ill the vicinity of the public roads in progress under the direction of the General Government within this Province, together with a scheme of regulations, to be agreed to by the Provincial and General Governments, for the settlement thereon of those classes of