Arrival of the Doric.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 367, 17 September 1883, Page 3

Arrival of the Doric.

BerPresß Association. Auckland, Sept. 16. The Doric is anchored off the qua-Tantihe hulk. Owing to her papers being sent for fumigation to tb6 hulk, full details cannot be! obtained as to the number oi irumigrantß and destination for the Captain Metcalfe reports being forty nine day^out ynum^Piy.riouth. H.e' called at St. Vincent and the Cape ; of^Good Hope. She ' has I '42 saloon, '.74Tsecond, and ;'464 steerage passen*. gers, of which 276 are Government* aWmigrafftsv; -:Nearly,altthe-Govcrn~ nieni? immigrants are. for Auckland. Dr Jblinsfen reports , the h,ea)J;h(of thu' passengers genVrally good'dTiring .the voyage. Three children x died,! <naine ! ly, Phillip^ohn^Byland, thiiee, months oFd^ oflconvulsions, Catherine jljw^er^twa months,. of-debiKtyiilahd Wint redGroodson; ten years, of consumption Measles "broke out among- the^jfoveenment immigrants m .the.steefage nine days af Jier leaW ingl?iymoluth/ : ThVre have : been 't#enty-fiie Ofcses, of >which seven are now existing. Thera were no deaths rf rbnx^he , disease, whici 5 coiiffined ; solely to the, steerage. /Dr Philson, 'the (Healthy Officer, intends' fq recommend to the -authorities at lington that the cases of measles be 'removedtp the' (Juarant^ne 'station on Motiiihi island) and.'^tihat the ship be fumigated 'and admitted to pratique to come up to the wharf.