IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 11

IMMIGRATION.

Thk ' Southland Weekly News says : -The present effort should bw made to secure the nomination of as many immigrants as possible, aad to get them out at once, thus serving the double purpose of providing for an immediate necessity, and securing ourselves against the contingency of a suspension of the present exceedingly favorable terms foJ the introduction of immigrants. The satisfaction expressed by the new comers w£h_the country, and their own prospects, is early bearing fruit, as is evidenced by the comparitively large number of nominations made by recent arrivals. The following quotation from a circular jately issued by tho Invercargill Immigration officer, Mr W. H. Pearson, m-iy be of interest to your readers :—": — " The length of time this or any colony can afford to conduct so liberal a scheme is necessarily limited. If, therefore, you would take advantage of it, do it at once. It is unnecessary to wait to write to your friends, asking (hem whether they will come out —it is only loss of time. Nominating them at onue will cost you nothing, not even postage. ... If your friends do not choose tocome under such favorable circumstances, particularly at a time when labor is in great demand, and wag*»s for every class so ve\-y high, you will hav-e done your uuty in giving them a chance, and they wi.l not be able to upbraid you hereafter by saying, ' You hud the opportunity of bringing me out free of cost, aud you di 1 not.' " The Agent-General announced* tha-t eighty vessels, with 1,833 adults, will sail for the colony during December; that one will proceed to the Bluff; and that in January there will be a vessel fron* Belfast and one from Quecustown. That is the promise of Irish Immigration ; we have yet to see the performance. It may be that tlise he will send are nominated passengers and others whom he cannot help sending.