FOR THE ELECT ONLY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 3

FOR THE ELECT ONLY.

An instanco of excltisiveness maintained under difficulties is reported from the ladies' cabin of a liner. All were sick except 0110 lady and a cat, which wandered uneasily about. The lady ventured to stroke tiio cat, remarking, '.'Poor pussy." The eat was inclined to respond, and elevated its tail in token of goodwill, when from a neighbouring berth came in choking tones tho ivords—"Excuse me, that is a private cat!" Tho little child of tho slums was enjoying her first visit to the country, and was enthusiastic in her admiration of tho farmyard. "Just look at tho chickings!" she exclaimed in ecstasy. "They're all running about raw I"

NEW ARRIVALS. -■ . « PASSENGERS BY THE KARAMEA. (BT TELECItAI'II—ritESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, October 26. Considerable interest centrcd on tho arrival of the Taluuc at Lyttelton from Dunedin oil Saturady morning, for the vessel had on board a largo contingent of pasengers, all new arrivals in New Zealand, by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Karamca from England. Tho great majority of tho "new chums" woro immigrants assisted out by tho Government. Others have come out to join friends already settled in tho Dominion; wives and children have como to join husbands and fathers; young women have come to bo married to young men who set out earlior to make a home in New Zealand; a few have como out "on spec," and about half-a-dozen aro returned New Zealanders. The new arrivals includo 17 farmers, one dairy farmer, six farm labourers, 10 domestics, and eight ma.rried women coming to join their husbands. The immigrants have capital ranging from £25 to £359. Those who have come north by the Taluno aro ti> bo distributed as follow:—Lyttelton 47, Westport 3, Wellington 52, Napier 1, New Plymouth 4, Gisborne 8, and Auckland 40.