MORE IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 402, 11 January 1909, Page 2

MORE IMMIGRANTS.

j ' ''!■;'■'• .''/ ';:■;. .";'■ -:.».'. :■- .'/V'-: --' \ -vjV.X ';.' Immigrant's "aiid'yet more immigrants, con-. -*■'' tiuue to.cpme to ithis.'.country,, every steamer' •.'•''. from the - Old; lane}.; helping 'to" "swell'-"; the'"- -'V . number:.of new arrivals. . When;, the Corn- •■', wall, from' West' "of''-England ports, berthed' -.'" at 1 the Taranaki .'AVharf oil Saturday " ''..:'' morning,-. Now Zealand's population -was in'creased by a. total-of .169}'/newchums."- .Of /„;:.-.''.'• the number,'..4s-completed their sea-journey"'; :: " on'- 'reaching Wellington), and-a. similar, num- > .-;.. ber .'are for-.'"Auckland; 1 .; The remainder, will -■' bo;distributed- over, other parts qt'ib&'r'Do^/''' ' ';' 'minion.- All .the, available .-accommodation /; . on the ' vessel'was,-takeii- up "by • the ' immi- : .' " : ; ■grants,' who include in their number some :'--\ of .the classes- of labour that New/Zealand ; heeds most—farmers and domestic servants. '■- A jgood'.-niany of them embarked ■"on their } journey at Glasgow,' and'it'is /stated that ."'";. there- are yet a - number waiting .to join .the-nqxt steamer- leaving, for- the .land/ of :.'■ '•'-■ I thp Southern Cross.,' Tho declared:.capital.of. .'-,- . the ! 41 ■:■ assisted -adult, immigrants ; is -.£728.: The number of third-class passengers' who : ',-."■ paid the whole of their expenses is 110. -..:„;"•