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120 Assisted immigration has, of course, only reference to the so-called laboring classes, mechanics, agricultural laborers, shepherds, grooms, gardeners, domestic servants &c. For these the demand among so small a population must necessarily be limited, but to persons having small money capital at their disposal Western Australia offers advantages which the more populous colonies do not. There are in the mines district near Champion Bay many lodes of lead ore, some worked, and others not yet touched, which require only the application of simple machinery and additional labor to make them highly productive. The pastoral areas of the Colony are by no means fully stocked, and there are numerous localities in which the industries already noted might be carried on with profit, if there were sufficient capital to commence with. On reference to the Land Regulations, it will be seen that land for any such purposes may be obtained on such terms as will not exhaust the capital which may be more profitably applied to its improvement and cultivation.