BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2695, 6 October 1871, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OREVILLE’s TELEGRAM COMPANY, REUTER’S AGENCY.) Wellington, Oct. 6. v A man named Mason, an old settler, has died here suddenly. Kebble quotes Adelaide flour at LI 6 ; Colonial do, LI4 to LI4 IQs ; oats, 3s to 3s 3d ; barley, 3s 6d. Christchurch : Wheat, 4s Qcl; only prime malting barley mo\ cable; oats in steady demand at 2s 2d to 2s 9d; butter not improved; cheese in good request, at 7d to 7£d. I Tauranga, Oct. 6. Te Kooti has been reinforced by 100 Waikato men, and the garrison at Maketu strengthened. The expedition has started.

Supreme Court.—The hearing of the case Creed v. Ferena aiifl others was continued in Supreme'Court to-day. The daae'for ihe plaintiff bad not been brought to a conclusion at 4.30 p. m. The further hearing of the case will be proceeded with on Monday next. Criminal. —James Ripley, seathan, of the brigantine Bella, sentenced by T. Tayler, Esq., Port Chalmers, tojour weeks imprisonment with hard labor, upon the imformation of Captain Hill, for being guilty of wilful disobedience of orders, was received into the gaol this afternoon We understand that Mr Catomore, solicitor, applied to his Honor Mr Justice Chapman, this day, relative to the case of William*, under sentence of three months hard labor for drunkenness, v. the Cromwell Justices, who will be defended by Mr Barton. William, who is in gaol, will be brought up on a writ of habeas. His Honor arranged to hear the case at II o’clock to-morrow. The Introduction of Immigrants. —'Writing on matters appertaining to this subject, the Oamaru Times remarks:— “ When we consider that out of a total population in the Colony of 256,393 persons (other than aboriginals) no less than 101,348 are under the age of 15 years ; and that, deducting females and the proportion of males under 15- the youngest period at which any hard labor can begin—we have only in the whole Colony, with its nine Provinces, 98,946 youths and men to carry on our mining, agricultural, and pastoral operations —our local manufactures and trade—and to minister in various wavs —as men alone can—to the carrying on of the hand-work of colonisation, we shall not be ready to listen to any cry of overpopulation, Taking, still further, the numbers located in towns, as represented only by the return of towns with 6vcr 500 inhabitants—the returns for the smaller towns not being separately given—we find that 48,054 males—of whom about one third would probably be under the age of 15are living town life. We may add at least 15,000 as living in such towns as Queenstown, Clyde, Cromwell, Waikouaiti, Palmerston, Lawn nee, and many more like them, besides populous suburbs itr the immediate' vicinity of the principal cities, and'many small villages throughout the Colopy and as most of those living i« towns belong to the tiding, or other nonpi'oiUipiptj clasps, we may deduct from the total maip population over 15 at least 45,000 i who arc withdrawn from mining, agricultural, pastoral, or other country pursuits, leaving only about 54,000 males between fifteen and seventy years of age throughout the whole Colony to carry on all the varied occupations which come under the head of production, and the consequent settlement of the country. Can we for one moment regard such a population as in the slightest degree adequate to cultivate the several mil?, lions of acres of fine laud already sjiehafed,' from tbo Crown; to develop the eootlpous resources of our goldfields ; to carry on pastor M.'pursuits, and to prepare homes for ( future generations ?”