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    ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION. 333

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

    they for tlie would cattle be one revenged night had eaten us for them robbing all up them , perhaps of the they trees thoug that ht

    so lately stood on the spot upon . We are now going to have a tea meeting to raise a subscription , to buy glass windows , and shutters -too I

    suppose , or else they will be butting at their own images in the glass . # _** * 3 ?

    Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia , March , 1853 .

    Dear —3 here of M almost y owing last depopulating letter to the was gold a discovery doleful South account Austr at Port alia of Phili . the But p whole , and I also the state told effec of you t affairs it ha the d

    fair governor land price escort for was to it about convey for at to the that establish Adeladians time they a new ' gold were bullion here selling , act and it , and in give Melbourne an them over a -

    at from two to t ; hree pounds per ounce only . So government agreed to give three pounds eleven shillings , and deduct one penny per

    ounce leased for with ' expenses the project of the that escort I beli ; eve but they the offered Adelaide twopence men were instead so p of one . This paid government welland had the desired

    effect of p bring enny ing back nearly all the South Austr , alians , and many more with them to settle here ; and there are very few who left this

    Melbournites colony but will and return consider again them , for all they convicts all have a in great some dislike rela to the ted , , way

    foolishl long to them become y . , I Althoug think useful by h and some far respectable the of maj the orit gold settlers y - purchase digg ; so th p land en at d , , like and their all w mone il gr l Let er eat y e

    things , good and evil will be the results of the gold discoveries . us hope that in this case the good will overbalance the bad . _* _•& •* *

    Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia , Ju ? ie , 1854 .

    Dear Fanny , Your letter brought me such surprises that I could hardly sleep

    for lives parison two on ni to the g Eng hts next , lish and section life no . wonder , I onl was y , yesterday say for ing this to is , Mrs that such . we an J isolated had , who not life met I told in for com yon six - -

    weeks get she so could , far not , not thoug from bring h any there it ill here is feeling onl , and y a , mile but I had her between been baby so our had poorl houses been y I ; could so a mile poorl not in y

    hill England and down would hill not , throug be much h scrub of a walk and bog , "but alternatel an Australian y , is quite mile a , dif up - ferent thing . have

    daresay seen What a shop you will for would they five say think year in s ifc Eng and a dreadful land a half when , nor life I a , but woman tell thoug them for h I six we weeks do not never . go I

    On Assisted Emigration. 333

    ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION . 333

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/45/