NELSON.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume III, Issue 154, 29 June 1842, Page 2

NELSON.

The Nelson Examiner obtained the follow-

ing statistics on emigration from the Sydney Herald, and makes the remarks thereon which we have subjoined. "».We have just received a parliamentary paper, showing the 'Number of Emigrants embarked from various ports in the United Kingdom during the year 1840, and during the first and second quarters of 1841." These returns were called for on the motion of Mr. G. W. Hope, one of • the Under Secretaries of State in the Colonial Department; and were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 7th of October last. The following is an epitome : —

Totals 90,743 79,394 170,137 The particulars of the emigration to the ■"■ Australian colonies and New Zealand were as follows : —

The first fact that strikes" attention in these tables is the large proportion of emigrants to the United States, being no less than seventenths of the "whole number in the eighteen months. We are rglad to observe that this fact has arrested the serious consideration of her Majesty's Government, and is one of the . moving causes of the project of a system of national emigration. * * * One object proposed by national emigration is to divert these migrating streams of British labour and wealth into more legitimate channels, directing them to those parts of the world in which the wanderers will retain all their privileges as British subjects. • Our readers., will see, in another column, an extract from the Sydney Herald, headed " Eighteen Months' Emigration." The Herald makes rather an extraordinary mistake in saying that seven-tenths of the whole number of emigrants leave England for the United States, as by the table it will be seen that the number does not amount to one-half. We suppose it must be a misprint.

The emigraton to New Zealand must, we think, he considerably underrated, although the contrast between the number that left England and the number that are now in the colony may be accounted for by re-emigration from the neighbouring colonies. If the last jSix months of 1841 had been given, the amount would have been rather different."

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- In 1840. First 6 M mtht in 1841. v Total in 18 Months. I I - To United States To N. American Colonies To other parts of America To the W. Indies . To African Colonies . . • To Australia and New Zealand.. 40,642 32,293 -, 44 1,591 " 29,954 33,692 83 j '983 70,596 65,985 . 127 2,574 323 130 453 I 15,850 I 14,552 I 30,402

In IS4O. First 6 Months in mi. Total in 18 Months. Po Van Diemen's Land Co Swan River .... L\> South Australia foNew South Wales fo New Zealand . . 299 224 2,748 11,121 1,458 263 159 83 12,621 1,42G 562 383 2,831 23,742 "2.584 Totals 15,850Jj f 14,552 30,402