Neither agent did any good, and Mr Carter had to report to that effect. In Scotland the same complication occurred. Dr Featherston had to send for Mr Auld, the Otago agent, in order to come to some definite concerted plan by which the evil results of conflicting action could be avoided. He had also employed two clergymen—the Revs. P. Barclay and David Bruce to push the emigration to New Zealand in Scotland. Dr Featherston proceeded himself to Aberdeen, and there placed himself in communication with acommittee,formed by the residents for promoting emigra tion, but he found that all the single women they proposed to send out were inmates of, or recently discharged from reformatories, and that the committee expected the colony to accept boys from the Industrial Schools, but who had as yet learnt no trade. As these classes of emigrants were not such as New Zealand desires, it is needless to say that ,{ no business was done." The Agent-General had with his wonted sagacity anticipated that the Govern ment would find out the necessity of conducting immigration on one system, and had already commenced to ignore the provincial schemes, and elaborate a system similar to that adopted by him in regard to emigration from Scandi navia. In North Europe Dr Feather ston has been very successful, and he only regrets that he had not proceeded thither earlier in the year, as the season bad closed when he wrote. He has made arrangements for the shipment at regular intervals of six thousand care fully assorted emigrants from Scandi navia and North Germany. A highly respectable firm at Hamburg had entered into a contract for the shipment of the emigrants at prices much below the rate charged from England. The emigrants will consist of as many single

domestic womeA as can be secured, not more than two hundred single men, and the remainder young married couples with from one to three children each, all to be selected from the rural dis tricts. At Christiana arrangements were made for three thousand Danes, and a similar arrangement was about being completed at Gothenburg. The passage money to be paid by the Go vernment is ten pounds for each male adult, and fourteen pounds for. 