MORE IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 273, 11 August 1908, Page 7

MORE IMMIGRANTS.

EX MAMARI AND NORFOLK. Among tho 200 passengers who arrived in Wellington by the Maniari yesterday were 90 assisted immigrants—62 adults, and 28 children under 12 years of age. Among them wero 11 farmers, 2 shepherds, 6 farm labourers, and 6 domestic servants. Of tho sorvants, three were destined for Auckland, and ono each for Wellington, Napier, and Port Chalmers. Thirteen wives came out to join their husbands and families. Ono farmer, who had booked for Lyttelton, brought capital to the amount of £825, and tho total declared capital of tho immigrants was £3232. Mr. A. A. S. Danby, Immigration Officer, and Mr. A. Donald and Miss Bremner, of tho Labour Department, boarded tho vessel when she was lying in tho stream. Mr. Da'nby states that the newcomers aro a very good typo of workers. A large proportion of them had employment to come to. A number of men anxious to improve their prospects joined tho vessel at Cape Town. They report a bad state of depression, in South Africa.

The Norfolk, which arrived on Sunday from Liverpool, via Auckland, brought threo families of immigrants. Ono family left the boat at Auckland, but a dairy farmor with a healthy family of ten children, ranging in ago from infancy to 1G years, and a fanner with a smaller family, came on to Wellington. Tho man with a largo quiverful brought about £80 with him, and lie has work awaiting him in the country.