TIMARU.

Press, Volume III, Issue 95, 27 December 1862, Page 5

TIMARU.

[From our own correspondent.] December 22nd, 1862. In my last letter of the 17th instant, I stated that about 150 immigrants in all were to have been landed here. I was led to behove that more were to bo landed the following day the, 18th, making up the abovo number. Owing, however, to the barracks being unfinished, and the people being told there was no place ready for them, and that they would have to live in tonts, tho weather moreover being showery, a great number positively refused to land, and the Immigration officer had great difficulty even in getting ashore those few that were landed. There seems to have been a great mistake made in shipping the immigrants, in that the tickets they had were for cither Lyttelton or Timaru, leaving it at tlio holder's option to land at which place he might prefer. Clearly a great error on tlie part of the English Emigration Agent, insomuch that by tho refusal of many to land our wants are not snpplied, especially with regard to single men and women. Of married couples we. have' enough. All the single men and women, with the exception of two

or three, havo been already engaged, and I know of residents in the district being disappointed in the hopes of getting servants. I enclose a list of those landed here and those gone to Lyttelton :— LANCJEU AT TIMARU. Adults. Souls. Married 68. ... 93 Single men 11 ... \\ Single women ... 9 ... 9 . » ______ 88. 113 Adults landed 88J Gone to Lyttelton 160 i Died on passage 1 Total adults on board 250