The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND,

WELLINGTON.—This province has set an es3'
which, if followed by the rest, will deprive our own itl-0(
gration Commissioners of their occupation. BY ine'lllsre-
their own agents in this country, it is proposed that a
ference be given to the friends and relatives of those void':
have already immigrated. The new-comer and his;
on whose recommendation he is sent for, are to Pl' `rs--
missory notes
f, ayable at one and two years, for the
sage out, but orp which immediate paymen t can be eulr'ee'
in case either of the parties are about to quit the Pr°viiire•
This plan is very simple and practical, and similar to,
adopted by Mrs. Chisholm. Amongst the many ell, As
tym schemes, we know of none so likely to work ‘N"
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NELSON.—The inhabitants of this district are in
fair way of marring their immigration scheme by th
sertion of a clause for the enforcement of contracts 7,
may be made between the master who d.wil
man who is imported. A surer method of creating 19t
and discontent was never invented. The immigrant ri,oo a
be free to work for whom and for what he chooses: to
then the chances are that he will prefer the Illes'el;ow•
whom he is under a pecuniary obligation. Let him, „s it
ever, once entertain the notion that he is made a serf,!',.
were, by his bond, and he at once proves a hard barlce-
CANTERBURY.—Christchurch exhibits its progir in the
ness in starting a second " organ of public opinion s-uwe,
shape of the Christchurch Standard, which, we Pl,miti•
is to wage an internecine war
Paraw the Lytteltou -1,e5 a
The latter paper contains a graph which %fe:
curious insight into the practical workings of ol),Jureco
—" Sir meeting of flockowners it was agreed L°,loverl''
mend W. Congreve, Bart., to the Provinciali"ere is g‘
ment, for the appointment of scab inspector." 41 brierg
simplicity and primitiveness about the affair id" "
to mind Cincinnatus and his plough.

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AN ENGLISH AUTHOR, named William .""Arioli.Or.
cently committed suicide at a New York hotel by
from a bottle a quarter of an ounce of prussic uel";ti ,g
NEW DocK AT SOUTILLAIPTON.—They are ge-„.-Og
at Southampton. On Monday, a gigantic
admission
dock was opened for general business by the frius;
the screw steam-ship Crcesus, of 2,000 tons reg'isr 'BB fee,:
doek, the largest in the world, is 400 feet long Oever ye.;
wide, and is capable of taking the largest ships imitteu
built. Vessels of the class of the Crcesus can be D'''; about
at low water. It has been built at a c Alfred
£85,000, under the superintendence of Mr.
the engineer of the Southampton Dock CompanY• e of
100.
PATRIOTIC SPORTING.—Lord Ward, with ser,ool.,
friends, commenced shooting on the Hurcott !, to out
Friday last, the game which he intends to sel'u_ at tile
soldiers in the Crimea. There were eight guns, u!tref 330
close of the day's warfare the result was the dealt! wood-
hares, 140 rabbits, 78 pheasants, 3 partridges r,s(!_t,, witll
cock—total, 558. On the following day his 1 Y,oot-
Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., and others, bad a day's nivcre
There al
ing for the same object on the Witley estates. „.
nine guns, and the day's sport yielded 188 f 4111.1.:an'd of
rabbits, and 103 pheasants—making a total o
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A BAD PRECEDENT. The following extract,. -1.10..
Smollett's History of England is interesting at h 573,66),
mentoti -.7" In the course of the next month (APril, Al and
I Hanoverians and Hessians arrived in Englant", „rs
encamped in different parts of the kingdom. M the itir
of an invasion: subsided in the minds of the people, their
- "--- 4:oreign.auxiliaries emerged. "'Slavin ;
-es of jealousy, suspicion, and di ~,lie
ith contempt, reserve, and rigour.
1. ,o,
eted for having reduced the nat.o
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stance of disgrace as that they should
to German mercenaries." 81n wee
d conduct of the foreign troops 3 but
ple from violent acts of outrage% 0
ensuing winter, was obliged to P,3..500' pg
make provision for the quartering of foreigi"_',,-er#
this kingdom," in consequence of the innke.F_A
refusing the Hessians admittance into their houses, T,';
the consequent suffering of the foreign troops frora l''''
severity of the weather,

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