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    ON ASSISTED 'EMIGRATION. 233

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    That A Country Peopled To Repletion Like...

    The Government Emigration Officers and Offices for promoting the Emigration of the Laboring Classes , are as follows : —

    S . Waleott , Esq ., 8 , Park Street , Westminster ; Coin . Lean , R . N ., 70 , Lower Thames Street ; Li

    Lieut . Prior , R . N ., Stanley Buildings , Bath . Street , verpool . The Colonial Agents for assisted _passages :

    William Field , Esq ., 3 , Bridge Street , Westminster , ( for Cape of Good Hope ;) for Auckland

    Messrs . Bidgway & Co ., 40 , Leicester Square , (;) Messrs . John Gladstone & Co ., 3 , White Lion Court , ( for Wellington ;)

    E . Fitzgerald , Esq ., 32 , Charing Cross , ( for Canterbury . ) The usual length of the voyage to the Australian colonies is about and

    three months and a halfand to New Zealand a little longer : as , at whatever season of , the year it may weather be made , passengers should be have

    to encounter very hot and very cold , they prepared The for following both . is a list of the principal articles required ; but it

    cannot Ibe too strongly impressed , as a general rule , that the more abundant the stock of clothing each person can _afford to take , the

    better for health and comfort during the passage . JL single ( working J womart s outfit for _Australia , s . d .

    1 warm cloak , with cape . . . 60 2 bonnets « ... each . 310

    1 small shawl . . . - . 23 1 stuff dress . . . . 110 *

    2 print do . . ... each . 6 0 6 sliifts . . . .,,. 13

    2 nannel petticoats . . .,,. 26 1 stuff do . . . . . 39

    2 twill do . . ... each . 2 0 1 pair of stays . . . . 2 6

    4 pocket-handkerchiefs . . . each . 0 3 2 net do . for neck . . .,,. 0 5

    4 3 nig caps ht- . caps , . . . . . . ., „ , . . 0 010 7

    4 sleeping- jackets . . .,, 14 . 2 pairs of black worsted hose . ,, . 0 10 4 cotton do . . . . . . 0 " 10

    „ 1 pair of boots . . . . . 50 6 towels .... each . 0 4 _f

    Each person will also require : — 1 bowl and can . 1 table spoon .

    1 knife and fork . 1 tea-spoon . 1 deep tin plate . An assortment of needles and

    1 pint tin drinking mug . thread , 1 s .

    On Assisted 'Emigration. 233

    ON ASSISTED ' EMIGRATION . 233

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/23/