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    332 ON ASSISTED EMIGKATION.

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

    lowest calling in the colony ) to keep themselves from downright starvation . Many of these sort of young men go _hut-keepingwhich

    , is by far the _easiest berth . There is only one sheep station about hereand that is ten miles from us .

    the I road went , met on a three visit to little this children station a the short eldest time about ago , nine and while old on , years ,

    having charge of a flock of fifteen hundred _sheejo . When we got to the stationwe found it kept by an intelligent Scotch couple who had

    been there , several years : the hut-keeper was a gentleman who can talk Greek and Latin . ; he has just heard of the arrival of one

    hundred pounds from home , and no doubt he will stay in Adelaide until he has spent every penny , and then write pitiful accounts of this

    colony to his friends . writes Miss to F her . writes friends me to word say that that Sarah the 3 _^ oung L ., who women came in Adelaide out with are us ,

    glad to work for nothing but their keep , without any wages at all . I have asked many people who have been here from . Adelaide if such

    is a fact , and they all deny that it is true : they say that it is often the case with _4 he . menwho are glad to get , in any way , an insight

    into colonial work . , Some young men who came over in the " City of Manchester , '' told

    us that she brought out a number of needlewomen , who dressed on board far beyond the cabin passengersand who never went to the

    , cook-house to put a saucepan on , without putting on gloves to prevent soiling their fingers . Now I suppose these young women

    thought this a dreadful place when they came ashore and found that if they stayed in the town they wouldhave to accept menial

    situations , and that if they went up country _^ they would have to wash milk dish . es , which cannot be done in gloves anyhow , and , even worse ,

    in some places would have to milk the cows . However , I have heard tliat several of these girls are now doing very welland so are the

    , girls from the Shetland Islands . Indeed , everybody who has met with these Scotch lasses says they are very good girls .

    Most of the young women who come out in our ships , get situations a few days after arrival ; if they do not get places directly , they

    can stay on board fourteen days , and after that time they go to the labor officewhere I believe they can stay till they get situations .

    The orphan , girls , who are generally very young , are always sent to the labor office at once , from whence they are always hired , and

    never allowed to go and live at public houses . I believe that any young woman may find certain employment with fair wages very

    soon affcer she arrives ; one reason why so niany are out of employment so long , is because they ask such enormous wages .

    "We have lately had a minister settle down here , and liave just built a chapel ; it is a curious looking edificea few degrees inferior

    to the Crystal Palace , which from , what I hear , must be all glass . Our infant chapel cannot yet boast of any transparency , for we have

    calico windows , and about a fortnight ago we wore much amused ,

    332 On Assisted Emigkation.

    332 ON ASSISTED _EMIGKATION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/44/