TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2468, 29 June 1893, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, June 29. The Inspector of Police has deoided to limit the definition of art nnions to pictures •lone, and will not allow articles of furniture and other things to be disposed of as prizes. At the Gom Commission evidence was given that Aoetrians make good settlers. They are mostly young men, and therefore Ibeii average gainß are greater than those Of Britishers who had a percentage of old men. One Auntralian earned M 19a weekly for twelve months; another, £2 18i 6d; one Britisher, JE3 10s 6d ; and iome othOTB, £8 18s and £8 la 6d. There Wfre between 400 and 500 Austrians on the field, including 100 under 15 years of age. One witness deolared that a great , number Of Anßtrians were sorry they had come. Eight had gone home a fortnight ago, their friends having aubscribed their paißage money. An Austrian said be could clear £1 monthly, but youDger men could do better. Most of the Auatrians on the fields had been searpen in their native ooontry, where they alao owned land, growing vines, almonds, and olives. Bad seasons had driven tbem to the colonies, but they would not settle here, ac the land is not suitable for vines and they could not work without capital. They had paid their own passage out, and had not been induced to come by any British inbject. "Witness had written home cautioning his friends not to come out.