The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872.

Southland Times, Issue 1557, 29 March 1872, Page 2

The Southland Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872.

Regulations for the introduction of immigrants into the colony on the nomination of persons residing therein, have been adopted, and an announcement in another column intimates that the Crown Lands Commissioner has been appointed an Immigration Agent for Southland, to whom applicants for information are directed to apply. The provisions of the regulations, as gazetted, are these :— Persons residing in the colony may obtain a passage for relatives or friends in England on the payment of £5 for each adult under 50 years of age, and 30s for each child under 12 years. In the matter of selection, Government has reserved to itself the power of discriminating — for example, widows with families " are as a rule not eligible," and special application must be made on their behalf. To girls of 12 years of age, accompanied by their j parents, and to single women between | the ages of 16 and 35 years, free passages are provided on proof of good character j being shown to tbe satisfaction of the Agent-General in London. To cover the cost of bedding, blankets, and mess- | utensils, a charge of 25s per head is made before embarkation. The application to nominate friends or relations for a passage can be made at any money-order office in the colony, or to the Immigration Officer at the capital town of each province or county. The prescribed mode of application is as follows : — At each Post Office the Immigration regulations and form of application may be obtained. The application form is in duplicate ; one being retained by the Postmaster, and the other by the applicant, who forwards it and the post office order for the amount of passage money to the Receiver-General at Wellington. The form of application must contain tbe name, age, occupation, and address of the nominees, and the applicant engages "to receive the immigrants above-named immediately on their arrival." Receipts for the stipulated amount of passage money are granted in duplicate, one of which is to be sent by the applicant to the person nominated, and the other retained by the applicant himself. Instructions for the guidance of the nominees are printed on the back of the receipt. These instructions are as follows .- — On receipt of this, you should write to the Agent- General, stating whether you intend availing yourself of the passage provided by your friends in New Zealand. His address is — The Agent-General for New Zealand, 7 Westminster Chambers. j Victoria street, S.W., London. Should you determine to immigrate, you are cautioned on no account to give up your employment until you know from the Agent- General the precise date of the ship's sailing. If you fail to join the ship on the day appointed, you will not only lose your passage but your friends j here will have to forfeit the passage money ; you will therefore be very careful to join the ship on the exact date the Agent-General may require. Should you determiue not to emigrate, you should let the Agent-General know, as until you acquaint him the money which your friends have paid in New Zealand cannot be returned to them. | As the amount paid by your friends will only cover your passage from the port of embarkation to New Zealand, you will yourself have to pay all travelling and other expenses necessary to enable you to join, the ship, as well as the freight of any baggage you may have over the quantity allowed to be taken free. Freight on ail baggage over the quantity the Agent- Greneral tells you is your allowance will have to be paid by you on embarkation. Any further information you may want the Agent-General will be happy to give it to you, if you will write to him. I Clause six of the regulations provides as follows : — The Immigration Officer at the capital town in each province or county (and he only) will ! receive applications as under : — 1. From persons who may wish to give bills for the passage money of their relatives or friends, instead of paying cash. The amount of the bills to be taken will be 50 | per cent, over the amount above fixed to be paid in cash, and the bills will become due thirty days after the arrival of the immigrants sent for. 2. From persons who desire to leave to their agents ia Europe the nomination of emigrants of any particular class, the terms will be the same as if nominated in the colony. 3. From persons whose friends are over 50 years of age. i 4. From persons whose friends are widows i with children. The remaining clauses provide that as these rates merely defray the passage from the port of embarkation to the colony, the cost of conveyance to such port, as also to the residence of their friends on their arrival in the colony, must be defrayed by the emigrant himself. The Immigration office may object to any immigrant so nominated being sent out, either from uusuitability of occupation or from any other cause, and the Agent- General in London has power reserved to him to refuse passages where the intended immigrant is in ill-health or in any way unfitted, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage. These powers are reserved notwithstanding the granting of any application at the money-order post office.