Immigration.

The clauses in this section provide for the granting of land, in lieu of the cost of passage to the Province. The proviso to clause 65, reserves to the Emigration Agents a discretion in granting Land orders, secures to them, in fact, the power of selecting suitable persons, and of rejecting the claims for such orders, of persons who from age, infirmity, or other cause, might not be considered desirable immigrants. As the success of the present scheme depends mainly upon the exercise of this discretion, it is proposed, to indicate the classes of persons who are most likely to succeed as settlers in this Province, without meaning absolutely to limit the Agents choice to such classes, viz.; Agricultural Labourers and Servants, Mechanics of various kinds, Domestic Servants male and female, page 147and Farmers with small Capital. The high price of money, ten per cent. being easily obtainable at Auckland, upon the very best security, will be an inducement to Capitalists who merely seek investment. Unless as being the head, or a member of a family about to emigrate, no land order should be granted to any person above the age of 60 years. Young men in the rank of gentlemen, who have not been brought up to any profession or business, or who are without sufficient capital to establish themselves in the Province and to employ labour, are not generally desirable as Emigrants. The opportunity of employment for such persons in offices under Government, as Merchants' Clerks, or otherwise, is extremely limited. In the other Colonies to which persons of the description above mentioned have flocked, they have as a class suffered disappointment, and endured great distress, from which they have been relieved, in most instances, by accepting menial offices, or by betaking themselves to manual labour, for which their previous habits have not qualified them.

By the Waste Land Regulations, the Cabin passenger will receive no greater quantity of land than the Steerage passenger, the abundant supply of labour being the primary object sought to be obtained.

The intending settler who brings out servants at his own expense, will himself be entitled to receive the Land Order for their passage, and not the servant.

Persons who immigrate together in numbers, for the purpose of forming a special settlement, will be entitled to make their selection from "Special Settlement Lands;" all other persons must select from "General Country Lands," and it is necessary that this should be carefully noted in the Land Orders.

A Land Order for General Country Land, when it has been presented and noted by the Waste Lands Commissioner in Auckland, practically represents a debenture or money order, of the Value of £20 or £10, as the case may be, aud will be available, under the special conditions of the Regulations, for the purchase by the individual in whose favour it is granted, of 40 or 20 acres of Country Land, in any part of the province in which General Country Land may be open for sale. Such Land Order is in force for five years; and the holder may exercise his right of selection under it, at any date within that period, and he is not tied by any conditions as to occupation or improvement, &c.

Persons who contemplate Emigrating to Auckland should, before taking any other step, consult the undersigned respecting the Free Grants of Land which are given to eligible individuals.

Alexander F. Ridgway & Sons,

General Agents to the Provincial Government, 40, Leicester Square, W.C., London, of Whom all Information May be Obtained.