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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 4 June 1872, Page 2

I RI'A'KWAI, OF TM MIGRATION TO SoTJTH : Ahstkali A. —■ Tho I nnnigra I,ion Hill : submit' ed to Parliament; by (he Ministry is ; coniprelieusire onongii Jfc proposes t.o give | free passages to female domestic wrv.uit.si ; to such persons of tlm labouring class as j f-lie immigration agent may see fit to send i out ; to assist persons ol mo lerato means to | the extent of from £-1 to according to : age ; to give faoili. ies to colonists to nominate ! their friends - } and i,o encourage unrni-jTa-nts to pay their passage out by a promise! ol a gv.mtof hind equiva'ent lo the amount tlm- expended. Hi is la! fcer system is 1.0 be promoted by the issue of land-order warrants, which, on •presentation at the Treasury in Adelaide, arc lo be exchanged for laud-orders, non-f raiis-f-:ra,ble for two years, and available at any time for the purchase of laud in the colonv. Ihe proposal to resume immigration is not to be unchallenged. Already, exciting appeals are being made to the working classes to rise as one man and save themselves from the threatened inundation'. "Be up and doing" is the exhortation. " JYow is the time; organize and agitate. It will be too. late when you are besieging the Treasury doors for bread or work, with mounted troopers charging you with drawn swords ! Have you forgotten two years ago P" You will thus perceive that the democratic element is not extinct in Soush Australia.. Opposed to the authors of manifestoes like these, and the clamorous following they are certain to secure, are the intelligent classes who can see no other mode of deliverance from the stagnation that prevails than the introduction of more

population, Fhe Ministry have been injudicious in .submitting- a bill vvhleh may be construed ; as the fi'St step towards the revival of the : promiscuous system of immigration in vogue a fe\T years ago, by which Victoria profited : much more than South Australia that paid the piper, and of course their scheme will be ' modified. We fancy there must have been some mistake in the announcement made by mes- ; sage from Melbourne a few davs ago, that the cost of telegrams between England arid : Australia was to be about double what bad ' benn anticipated. So far as we are aware, no o'Scial communication has been received on che subject by the authorities in Adelaide, : smd the fact that the China Cable Company : have lowered their rates renders the authenticity of the information so indirectly conveyed the more doubtful. In " Mitchells Maritime Register '' of February 23, we read that, " the China Submarine Telegraph Company announce that on and after the Ist March the rates for messages from London to fiongkoncr will be reduced from M 7 to £4 Gs, and to Shanghai from £8 5s to £4 Vs. To Japan the charge will be £o Gs instead of £9 55." With such a precedent before them, it' is unreasonable to suppose that the Briiish-Aus-tralian Telegraph Company would materially raise their rate. In fact, we believe the agreement witn South Australia limits their povref in respect to the increase of charges.— u S.A. Advertiser."