IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3657, 4 April 1883, Page 3

IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

AVellington, Tuesday. The Government have received a despatch from the Agent-General, Sir F. Dillon Bell, in.preference to the diaster to the cinigrantship Oxford. Sir Dillon Bell says that none of the emigrants appear to have boon injured, and during the whole of the time they behaved extremely well, and showed much courage aud quiet onduran -c under the very trying and anxious circumstances in which thoy were placed. Air Smith, the despatching officer, has inspected them since their arrival at Plymouth and reported favorably as to their health. A few are anxious not to j'roceed on their voyage ; but probably only a few of these, Sir Dillon adds, will persist in declining to re-embark. The Agent-General is unable to give the exact date at which the shipowners'will be ready to embark again with emigrants either by the Oxford or by some other ship. He understands, however, that the damage to the ship is so extensive as to require possibly a month or six weeks to repair. The Agent-General concludes by expressing his intention of urging upon the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company the necessity of providing another suitable vessel rather than keeping the passengers waiting for so long a time as the six weeks allowed by the Passengers Act. The Government have received information that the the British Queen, which left London on the 21th ultimo, has 250 emigrants on board for AVellington aud Canterbury.