talk, 8.A., bo appointed Visiting Freuch Master to the Scbool on such term* as may hereafter be mutually agreed upon; that lioth appointments be for one year, and terminable thereafter at six months' notice on either side." Tho terms referred to provide for a fixed salary of £900 per year, and one twelfth of the school fees, Tne meeting was adjourned for the transaction of ordinary business till Monday next. Mr W'lson was educated at tho Grammar School of Aber deen, and afterwards at the University of that city. He lately arrived in Auckland from London, where* he was for three years the master of a middle-class school. Mr De Moutalk was formerly 2?rajoh Master jn MdHQH CoJJege,

The Melbourne Argus, in an article on the value of Immigration, says :—: — Nearly 50,000 immigrants landed in New Zealand during the year 1874, and a very large proportion of theao were con signed to the Province of Otago. Never theless, so great is the scarcity of labour there, that some public baths which the Town Council of Port Chalmers had de termined on constructing, cannot be pro ceeded with, owing to the want of handß. Tenders were advertised for during several weeks in succession, and not a single appli cation was sent in. Facts like these speak for themselves. So do the "Statistics for New Zealand," from which we bor rowed some figures a few days ago. They show that the consuming power of the population of that colony, as exhibited by the value of its imports, is actually greater than it is in Victoria, the amount per capite being £22 9s 3|d in the former, and £21 3s 9d in the latter country ; while, in spite of our exceptional ad vantages, New Zealand runs us very hard in the matter of industrial productive ness, her exports being £19 9s Hid, and ours no more than £19 12s 2|d per head. < ne of the Btook arguments of the opponents of assisted immigration ia that its effect is to glut the colonial labour market, and to bring down the rate of wages. Let us submit both these asser tions to the test of experience. A steady stream of population has been pouring into New Zealand for some years. past, and that stream was never so broad and deep aB during the year which is now ending. 