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New Zealand Tablet, 4 January 1912, Page 15

.-- From January,: Hto the end of October, 1911;" the number of- Irish emigrants to the United States was 2862 less than during the corresponding ten months of 1910 (says the Irish Weekly). :'..,'But, unhappily, the Irish emigrants to Canada for the same period exceeded the 1910 record by just 1068. Irish 'emigration -to Australasia and South Africa is comparatively trivial of late years; but even in the small numbers decreases are shown. Emigrants .to the United 'States /leave the South and West mainly;/ evidently the young people of Munster, Leirister, and Connaught are making up their minds in favor of a patriotic 'stay-at-home ' policy." Nine-tenths of / the emigrants to Canada; go from Ulster—mostly from the Belfast 'home* counties' of Antrim; and Down; and the same counties have supplied I a • larg"e proportion of : the emigrants to Great Britain this year. Antrim's and Down's contributions to, the emigration roll have been exceptionally heavy within the past decade. The people.are flying from the rural/ districts. Some of them increase the popu-lation■-•'of Belfast—and " compete; with the city workers. The majority from the country.