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    ON ASSISTED EMIGBATIONv 327

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    —Asss - ^ - Currency Creek, Adelaide, So...

    These than suffoca , two ho ting t days winds flame , -when blow of fire a from cold _, making the change N . many E succeeds ., the and persons climate fl - y which in v o ery is ne very ' be s langui face calle reviving d d like , hot and .

    these it is onl warm y when winds these , whic winds h on blow an average that blow once can every fortnight ; , make the land very dry . months of Octoband the fol

    low the V i sowing ng ery A li pril ttle of , rain bu corn t during falls rap b etw May y e succ en and the eeds June the moderate se showers rains er as fall the , land so that is

    then The in corn good is condition rihere . about Christmas

    vided This in to olony hundreds has pe been each surveyed called after luy government the , most remarkable authorities lace and t di he - p

    hundred contains . , Each hundred is then divided into alphabetical districtsand each district subdivided into sections , each section

    containing district , about and laid thirty t acres with , and fences numbered NSE according W . wh * to quality between in every each

    two sections , each ou way is a road , so , as . to . form . , tlie land in blocks or squares containing three hundred and twenty acres .

    3 ? _% ¦ _•& _^ Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia ,

    May , 1850 . My dear Jane ,

    much This t day bthan twelve kful months forfor we I little caine thoug to Adelaide ht we should , and be I so have comfort very

    of abl o y ur settled six o e mon in th so short for I , found a time . I could We left not M do ypini the work at the with ex a piration young

    i thing chil t is d * ; , very can and g a man much p , lan like be to tt my er get husb six a fa and months rm , o who f hi ' experience s can own turn than his before in hand ser you vice to enter any but

    into anything for yourselves . thi We s seven are fifty weeks miles . I in see the plent bush y , and men I , have roug seen h-looking but one 1 but woman

    kindhearted bushmen . I must tell you , that by keeping in service we sure should of the we next not have month have done we h to shall so do well be but as milking we I have are twenty now the black doing cows * women . , - so In you the to may do course my be

    washing , and enoug very good washers ; they are , so that I manage pretty wellAnd nowdear Janeif have not altered your mind

    . , my , you , panion I and feel still convinced , and think you of we -will coming shall find to all a Australia comfortable be happy , I together shall and _hajopy be very althoug home glad h h o f I r a fancy , com and

    -I shall soon lose you , for it is almost impossible ; for a girl to keep bachelors single long in in Currency the bush Creek . Do , all you farmers know there ; is it are not sixteen a pity they or eig should hteen

    not have wires ? The . farmers' wives are sadly _xDut out , for as soon _.

    On Assisted Emigbationv 327

    ON ASSISTED EMIGBATIONv 327

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/39/