NEW ARRIVALS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 2

NEW ARRIVALS.

«o» IMMIGRANTS BY THE ARAWA. The Shaw, Savill liner Arawa, fro* London, brought a large number cf.ira* migrants to New Zealand, and over sixty new arrivals landed from the Oswestry Grange yesterday. The new. comers appew to be of a highly desir* able typo of stttlsr, and the majority of them intend proceeding at once to the country. Among tho women passengers are several doraeatic savants, all coming to places nerc. Several ladies made their way to the third-class quartet 9 in quest of bsr'vanls, but apparently ,vith no success. The domestic problem is as acute at Home as in New Zealand, ejecept where lh» pick of places are available. Tho immigrant^ by bath the Araw» and Oswestry Grange- havo some means. Those who have had assisted passages have, as a condition of the assistance, of produce evidence of the possession of means, and these, taken in the aggregate, amount to a considerable additioa to tht. pecuniary .vcalth ot the Dominion. . The total capital possessed by tha assisted immigrants, us ascertained by tb& High Commissioner, was over ' £3000. One farmer alone possesEed £1525. Farmers number 14 Tfiere ' wer^' all kinds of tiadesinen on board, including wheelwrights, bricklayers; fitters, butchers, clerks, carpenters, paintarp, plumbers, tnotormen, agricultural ihiplen.ent makers mid stonemasons. Mr. J. Georgcson, of the Labo-.r Depirtment, boarded' the Arawa in the stream, and interviewed a num,bcr of tha Uiiid-clasj, pnfscngeis, giving tliDin all information where to get work. The follow ing notice was posted in conspicuous parts of the ship: — "Notice to p.i:songers. — For information conceininq employment, conditions ot trade, and in» iormation generally in regaTcl to tha Dominion, passengers are invited to conm«U the New Zealand Government Labour Department's agencies .situated in. every town in New Zealand. -The head office (employment bureau) ye situated immediately behind the General Post Office, Featherston-strect, Wellington." Here follow tho office hours.

Professor Loduc, of the Medical Faculty of Nuntes, Franco, io said to have invented a peculiar process for applying electric currents to anitnnlb, which induces an eloctrical sloop, nncl which ha believes may very advnniajjcously replace ether and chloroform for anaesthe'io purpesos. A Pr.ria correspondent states (hat ihosc who have witnessed his experiments, which have f.o far been ca.- 1 ied oufc on a small scale, describe the results as marvellous. Tho auimo-l can bo maintained in »n clprrrie sleup for hours at r. time, and sensibility is rctored i>« onca by stopping tho Current. It seems to do away also viih all the inconveniences of even Ihe t>ci(. onaoHhciic'), causing- no nausea or unpleasant feolintf TLo professor is aiso said to have gone a step further, tnd to apply his method for the purpose* of electrocution, when it is dosirod to do away with an animal" by means of a perfectly painless death. However, as the professor has not. yet come out with a direct; Maicmcnt by himself, or merle the experiments boforo a scientific body in Parif,, it is difficult to say whill truth there is in these report*.