ARRIVAL OF THE lONiC.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE lONiC.

MORE IMMIGRANTS. The White Star liner lonic arrived fiom London to-day with nearly 700 passengers on board, of whom 549 were in tho third-class. Of the third-clas* passengers., 39s were assisted immigrants. One hundred of the total passengers were children. According to declarations made to the High Commissioner, the immigrants conle amply provided with capital, one of them bringing £2000 and another cleclai-es an income of £800 a year. The occupations are described as :—: — Farmers 78, farm labourers 25, domestic servants 54, and dairymen, gardeners, fruit-growers, and housekeepers. Twenty-five husbands already in the Dominion will be rejoined by their wives, who have come out in the lonic.

A deputation from the Taihape Chamber of Commerce, introduced by Mr. Field, M.P., waited on the Minister for Railways this afternoon. Among other things, it asked that the level crossing in tho township should be protected, as it was very dangerous, and that provision should be made by which a train should 'bo despatched fiom Taihape at, say, 6 p.m., so as to enable passengers to go through to Auckland in the one day. That meant the giving up of the 9 p.m. train, which took two days to get to Auckland. The Minister promised to look into the matters referred to. He was going to pay a visit to tho locality in a few days, so as to know the position. The 1 question of the timetable was at present under consideration. An able-bodied young man, named William Charles Watson, alias Wilson, alias Fillwood, was this morning deemed by the law to be an idle and disorderly person. Detective Cassells, who arrested accused last night, stated that he had known him for the last five years. He had done no work for four months. Chief Detective M'Grath said that accused had been fifteen times previously convicted of theft, once for burglary, and once for housebreaking. Watson pleaded not guilty. He had been harvesting in the country, but had been out of work tor the past three and a half months. Things were very bad, and he was unable to find anything to do. His Worship, in finding accused guilty, inflicted a sentence of two months' imprisonment. Mary Parker, found drunk id Tory-street yesterday evening, was on the application of the police remanded for a week ; and one first oftender was fined ss, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment.-