Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1910. GOING AND COMING. BRITAIN'S PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 November 1910, Page 4

Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1910. GOING AND COMING. BRITAIN'S PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

A I;ETURN of the numbers l and nationalities of the passengers that left or arrived l in the United Kingdom for or fi -m places out of Europe both in August and in the eight- months ended August 31, 1910. has boen issued by the British Board of Trade. During August 63,705 pea-sons left the United Kingdom, as compared: with 48.724 in the corresponding month of last year. Of these 37.232 were British subjects and 25,473 foreigners, as against- 28.535 and 20.189 respectively in- August of 1909. Of the 27.601 emigrants to parts of the British Empire 19.532 went to British North America, 4,066 to Australia and NewZealand, audi 2,662 to British South Africa. The United .States received 34,389 of the 36.104 emigrants to foreign countries, a .s compared with 27,888 last August. ***** The total number of emigrants for the eight months is 418,103, a large increase over last year's figures, 304,601. The British Empire received 193,324 (of whom 146,817 went to British i.orth America, as against 82,286 in the same period in 1909, and 25.154 to Australia and Ne\y Zealand, while 219,779 went to foreign countries (106,979 to the United! States, as compared with 164.607). The significant features in these figure = ,are the creat increase in the number of emigrants—an increase of over one-third —in the eight months, the large increase to British- North America, and the fact that the emigration to the United States exceeded that to the Bi'i-t-ish Empire by over 8000. Canada is fas.t adjusting the equilibrium with regard to the latter, however, as a recent cable showed that latterly the immigration into Canada is relatively large-v than into the United States.