The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning New and The Echo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1879.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2922, 26 August 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning New and The Echo.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1879.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wroDg tha needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the uood that we can do.

Bending to the general desire that free miscellaneous immigration should be discontinued, the Government have issued instructions to that effect to the AgentGeneral, and have gazetted new regulations for nominated immigrants. Hereafter, the sum of £5 will require to be paid in cash in advance for each male adult, whether married or single, at the time of making the nomination. But single women suitable for domestic service will receive tree passages, and free conveyance by rail or steamer to the port of embarkation in the United Kingdom, and they will not be required to pay any sum towards the expenses of outfits. The nominated system is the very best that can be adopted, and we are sorry it has not been taken greater advantage of in Auckland by the friends of desirable immigrants. For the year ending June 30th last the nominations in Auckland numbered only 941, against 1,801 in Wellington, 2,911 "iv Canterbury, aud 2,410 in Otago. The system cannot be generally understood, or more people would undoubtedly have availed themselves of this means ol providing for the conveyance of their relatives to a colony where the chances of success are so good. We are glad to observe from a work to hand by the Suez mail that Sir Julius Vogel has endeavoured to bring before the farming classes of England the advantages offered by this colony to men of experience and capital. Thehandbook issued by him in May last gives a d'gest ot the land laws of the Colony, accompanied by essays, letters from colonists, and maps 8

do scribing the Colony, its divisions and resources. Though" the Hooding of our labour market, in its present condition, with people seeking work, is to he deprecated, the Government should use every conceivable means to ensure a steady inllux of agriculturalists of the right sort to populate our waste lands. Without this, talk about small holdings is simple moonshine. The capabilities of the colony for settling a very large farming population have only to lie fully apprehended by the crushed-down farmers of Great Britain to attract them to our shores.