Weekly News. — 1892-04-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS.  The April circulars of the Emigrants' Information Office, and the new annual editions of the penny and other handbooks, with maps, which were issued on Friday, shew the present prospects of emigration. Branch offices are now organised at Bradford (Yorks), Bury St. Edmunds, Cardiff, Devizes, Glasgow, Ilerebrd, Leamington, Leeds, Liverpool, and Reading—mostly in connection with Free Public Libraries, where all the above publications and other information may also be obtained. This is the best season of the V( ar to go to Canada, and there is likely to be a gr,oti demand f r farm labourers, and to a leas extent tor general labourers and navvies and for mechanics in the building trades. The Canadian Government is offering bonuses of five to ten dollars a head to those who take up land in the North West or British CAumbia. In New South Wales and Victoria, harvests have been fairly favourable,but mechanics are not wanted, except in a few districts, and in Victoria especially the depression is great. The Queensland Government withdrew their free passages last February, so that now all except nominated and indented emigrants have to pay full 'area. This withdrawal is the most important fact which has happened during last quarter in connection with emigration. There is no demand u hatever tor mechanics in Queensland; many carpenters, °lumbers, and general labourers have been out of w, rk, and no one should go there at present on the of finding employment. Western Australia offers ftee and reduced passages to certain classes of emigrants, but free passages for farm-labourers , have just been suspended. Work there has been much brisker than for some time past, and there is a demand for a limited number of farm-labourers, men in the building trades, miners, and labourers on railways and public works. In Tasmania the chief demand is for miners, farm-labourers, and a few country blacksmiths; the new silver mines at Zeelian on the West Coast are giving employment to considerable numbers of miners, railway navvies, and small traders. In various districts of New Zealand there is a demand for farm and station hands, and for miners. Many persons who left the colony in recent times tf depression have now returned; the applications for land under the new regulations have been numerous; the harvest has been excellent, and prospects altogether are better. Cape Colony and Natal offer reduced passages to mechanics, female servants and others, for whom there is a limited demand. In all the abovementicned colonies there is a demand for small capitalists, farmers, fruit - growers, and female servants. Government Labour Bureaus have recently been opened in New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand. Emigrants on arrival should apply t) the Head Offices at Sydney, Brisbane or Welling:on, or to one 01 the country branches, which are very numerous. The warnings already issued by this office against emig ath n to South America, especially to Brazil, still hold good.  James Campbell was executed at 8 o'clock onMonlay morning at the county gaol at Tullamore for :he murder at Clara, on the 19th of December last, )f a little girl named Mary Kate Nehan, 6 years )f age, whom he first violated and then strangled. Scott, who was the executioner, arrived from England by an early train on Saturday. The Drisoner after his sentence displayed the greatest .esignation, and employed himselt diligently in levotional exercises. Scott entered the condemned tell a few minutes before E, and pinioned the :ulprit. Campbell, on the way to the scaffold, 'ervently responded to the prayers of the Rev. .Villiam Bracken, the prison chaplain. Death was nstantane ous.  irritated Frenchman (to Briton Wrio iota ims. taken him for a waiter:) "Sir-r, you haf gr-r-rossly in,ulted me. There is my ctrl. My seconds vi' vait upon you, sir-r-r." Briton: "ti..ver mind }-0111 seconds, Frenchy. You can wait upon me just as well. Pass me the Worcestershire sauce, Und bi quick about it, too" "Have I done anything to offend you, darling ?' he asked brokenly. fu-day you pa,sed me with• out bowing, and now you sit there with suoh am air of hauteur and pride that—" "George,' interrupted th- girl with the unnending air (in 1n..1 voice there was cadence sweeter than music Sr the night), "I have a stiff neck."