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Lake County Press, Volume IV, Issue 204, 1 May 1875, Page 3

\'£iw Daily Times ■-■{ Fiiioy, contains a telegram from its Auckland correspondent asfolows: It is rumored that Mr Vogel pill, when he comes out, produce a budget abovHSg a surplus, bestow his beuediction on the-Colony, and iheu retire to Great Britain.

A return furnished by the RegistiarGeucfafof In'lanJ shows that since iLe middlfe 'of 1851 the roimber ol native Emigrants from'ltfliir..l bus not been fetfe.r thau 2,325,329—that is to say, two-thirds of the present population of Scotland, arid only between seven and eight ;frundred thousand less tban half the present* population of Ireland. Within'recent years, however, the rate of emigration has been greatly reduced; returned for 1874 is the fifth lowest recorded during the past quarter of a century, but still 73,184 is a large number of people for a country with a population scarcely reaching b\ millions to lose by voluntary expatriation in one year 1 . The Hon. Dr Pollen is gazetted President of the Executive Council of New Zealand. An order in Council provides that all expenditure .on the gold-fields in the'Trovince* of Auckland shall be •.regulated by Acts passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council.

; The total value of gold exported from New Zealand up to «lst March, 1875, was £29,966,1.93; for the last quarter, £97,6810z.. V,.'lue£39i;i77: Otago is highest,, yieiniug £134,835; N-lson, £100,471; We ß llnnd7£79,lH; Auckland, *£73.991 ; Marlborough, £2,776 9s.