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    ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION, 331

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

    well liere . In tlie end . lie came further out into the bush , nine miles froni the station where we went to live when we first came

    here and , as and soon he as is one now is doing tired exceeding he turns l back y well to . fetch He another has three ; in horses fact , ,

    passenger he as lie has can enoug spare in h the two hard shi days p work we to came for coine them out and . in all see . that us He . well we has He know . The promised is the scho anything onl olmaster y as cabin soon of . Most of the ent emiants are doing

    is now quite governm a gentleman , one gr of the greatest builders in Adelaide , and Many has , persons I believe are , written disappointed many letters when to they Eng first land must arrive on tell emi here gration , and in .

    £ there _3 artieular are so it many is that instances of a farmer of that in sort the , that north I , one hundred you one miles from here . , Pie came from Devonshire _& ve years ago , he arrived at winds

    be blowing Christmas seen , and terribl ; it every was y . thing Just a very in after his dry he op summer inion landed was , not and wretched a blade the hot . of He grass had could were left

    his little farm in Devonshireon which he could barely get a subsistence his wife , much and less three provide children for to an , the increasing care of famil a brother y , he . had Aft left er coming it with

    here wrote he hom was e to so disappointed he should and return disgusted to Eng with land the directl place y , and that had he say

    actually taken his passage , but a storm coming on the vessel could went not sail ashore at the but appointed while lie tim was e , and the being wind delayed changed several and _daj the s shi , he p away

    sailed without , him . The _chang-e in the wind changed his opinion ; he had not much money left , so he thought he would he went try to to work earn

    for enoug some h to one make who himself persuaded as rich him , as to when rent he a section came , , so which he did , and eventually did so well that he sent for his family , who sold off all in

    Devonshire ; and now he has eleven eighty-acre sections of his own , and is of the largest farmers in the colony . Of course everyone

    one is if they not so are fortunate willing to , but ivork everyone . There may is als get o a a gen living eral , symp and ath a good y among one , masters would refuse to

    old ive settlers work to for such new as -comers are willin , and to very make few themselves useful . If any g hears of another ettler and g his family not doing wellthe first

    man question Onltwelve is , c < How months long '' s has The he answer been here again ? " is perhaps " Oh x _^ th o . or e answer fellow , , he is ,

    has are " generall not y had y tim granted e to get . . on But , " if and the whatever answer is favors , , there " He he must has may been be require here

    not thing three trust year wrong him s or , or more else As , " to the he the would rep various ly directl be getting reports y is , " on Oh current by thi in s Europe time , I some when shall

    -. " lo we ck were driving ther , e it , of is young all nonsense men clerks ; the fact getting is they enormous can get wages nothing by bul else

    to and do then . After not they knowi come how over t they o wo spend rk , tak all e to they bullock have drivin in Adelaide g ( the , ng

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    On Assisted Emigration, 331

    ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION , 331

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/43/