THE PAPANUI'S IMMIGRANTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14379, 24 November 1908, Page 2

THE PAPANUI'S IMMIGRANTS.

PROSPECTIVE COLONISTS. Two hundred and twenty-five, passenger* • arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday fi'ora London by tho New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paptmui. Of that num-< ber 148 are assisted immigrants; indudihg 29 adults and eight children, npminated by friends in tho Dominion; 73 being second ■ saloon passengers. Twenty-four of the total number are domestic servants, who arof Do distributed as follows:—Two for Auckland, six for Wellington, six for Lyitelton four for Timaru, three for the Bluff, one for YYangarjui, one for Port Chalmers, and one for Nelson. There are 45 fanners, five farm labourers,' five women with families - now joining their husbands, two shepherds and one housekeeper, ' \ The declared capital brought by the newarrivals aggregates £«69. They, vera all ' in excellent health, and appear 'to bo of the right, stamp of people to carve out fortunes for themselves in a new land. These for the northern ports, will transhin with their belongings to tho Wjmmora today. "'. They all express themselves as thoroughly pleased with their treatment >on the voyago, and Mr Boon, the 6teward in charge, had not the, slightest difficulty of any kind This is the : second and, largest)shipload landed direct at Port Chalmers. Mr A. A. S. Danby, tho Government Immigration Officer, was down from Wellington to pw sonally .olear tho ship. He experienced an unusual delay in getting on/board, having to wait two hours till the health authorities cleared tho boat from stem to stern. He states that in Wellington ant] Auckland ha, is allowed to-board as soon as the general report of "no siokness" is given, . " ■ ■ ■..- — ' ■ \