IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13846, 4 September 1908, Page 5

IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE.

FARMERS AND DOMESTICS. LARGE PARTY BY THE OSWESTRY GRANGE. Till steamer Oswestry Grange, of the Federal-Houldei- Shire line, arrived at Auckland yesterday, bringing with her over 200 immigrant*. Her passenger list contains the names of 221 people, 19 of them travelling first-class. Sixty-five of the Oswestry Grange's pasj mongers arc booked to Auckland, and 107 j to Wellington, others being booked for | Napier, Port Chalmers, and other ports. Twenty of them are described as farmers, half of them having brought wives and families. The domestic (servants number 21, while there are engineers,"carpenters, masons, plumbers, coach builders, miners, blacksmiths, and clerks among the other immigrants. Captain P. R. Howe described the immigrants yesterday as an exceptionally good class of people, while the purser and iHef steward, Mr. W. McFarlane, stated flat in 20 years' experience he had never utn a more promising lot of settlers. . lanv of them have come out with capital, intending either to settle on the land or go into business. Fine weather was enjoyed throu7bv.lt the voyage, and the Oswestry Grange «m----rived in Sydney in time to take part in the festivities connected with the visa of the American fleet. A 20-page .uagazine was published on board, containing impressions of the voyage and places visited, all the contributors being passengers. The Melbourne Argus of August 20, commenting on the immigrants by the Oswestry Grange, says:—"New Zealand continues to attract, immigrants from Great Britain in fairly considerable numbers, and the steamers of the Fedeiul-Houldei-Shire line are freely patronised by the new settlers. Yesterday morning the Oswestry Grange, which arrived in port here from Liverpool, brought about 250 immigrants, of whom no fewer than 255 are booked for various parts of New Zealand. They are an exceptionally desirable-looking class of people. Most of them are young, siugle men, but there are also a fair proportion of families and unj married women among the batch. It is beyond doubt that a better-looking lot of people generally lias not yet arrived from Great Britain, and of their habits and conduct during the voyage the ship's officers speak in terms of praise."