IMMIGRATION ARRANGEMENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 429, 12 September 1877, Page 2

IMMIGRATION ARRANGEMENT.

(By TiaKciiAi'ii, I-KII J'JUCSS ACJICNOY.) [j Wnt,UN<iTON, Sept,. 11.

Tho Agent-General reports the dep.it, lure of the following emigrant shipa \Va.ilan'.'i, frotn Plymouth, for l,yttelt<>n| on the 12.1 i .Inly, with 2*»B souls ; Jatmj Nicil Fleming, from Glasgow, for Peril Chalmers, on tin; Mill .July, with 24!)| and Waii'on, from Plymouth, for Welling' ton, on thi' 1 ~il.ll July, wit!i l!t'.). .|

Sir Julius says lie has so arranged tin departure of ships tli.it in all probability t,hj whole number of emigrants require! for the V' ;ir will have r> ac'ied Now Zua land by February. In sleeting emigrant preference has been •• i \*. 11 to those llOllli nated and single women. Tne British Consul aI. Dantzic reporti io the Foreign ( ilice that tho Gemini Govern nit tif las publi.shed in ollicia journals at Berlin and other cities 'of tin Empire, a statement pointing out, it forcible language, the unsuitableuess nl New Zi aland for G> rman immigrantd, saying that those (ieriiiaus who have immigrated to New Zealand Imvo met with only trouble and disappointment; that the southern provinces refusing to receive them, they wen; sent to Wellington, and although olleivd some work tliuro by the Oovetiimi nt, their only desiro was to get back to Germany. A copy <if this report having been referred to Sir Juliun by the Foreign Oflice, lio refutes the allegations, and states that none . but ft few Italians had not done Well ill tlie Colony, and the Italians had been a:dud to leave.