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—Asss - ^ - Currency Creek, Adelaide, So...
out much , this district is -becoming _mneli more populous , and no doubt whoever lives to see itthe _Goolwa will be quite a town in anothor
, five years . There is a new mill just finished and a public house . "We are getting * on with our new farm , and I am _liapj ) y to say the
work seems getting * under weigh 5 I did not expect this time last year we should be so forward as we areconsidering * we have only one
, pair of hands and a boy . When they can manage , the farmers help one another ; for instance , Mr . J comes here and his boy , and then
John returns the work in the same way , and this is the only manner in which the people can manage . I like our new situation very well ,
the house is about the centre of a sloping lull , the top of which shelters us from the cold south-west winds ; in front we have a
beautiful view of the lakes , the Goolwa , the mouth of the Murray , and round to tho sea at Port Elliot , which _, has been built since wo
came here . There is already erected a large stone hotel , a local Court House , the foundations of a new church are laid , and a new
stonehouse , not a tent , but a real business-like place , "been built , where two dressmakers and a milliner are kept . Mrs . J and I are going ft )
coax the men to take us as soon as the fencing is _finislied , as wo want to get some new bonnets ; we have had none since we loft
England , so you may fancy what old dames wo look when wo do go sam out . e One feather consolation so there is , is as not the much saying room is , we for are criticism all tarred 1 . with tho ;
• ss- * * -x Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia ,
August , 1858 . Dear ,
I think I told you in my last that we had bought another section adjoining our own in hopes of getting water , but wore almost as
unsuccessful' as formerly ; although we sunk our well at tho farthest extremity we came to rock again . John said ho would not give it
up till he got through it ; and so he did . and got water too , Tmt nofc enough of it . We are now making" a large tank , fifteen feet long
and six deep ; if we can get that full this winter , which bids fair to be a wet one , I think we shall find it enough for all domestic
purposes , so that we shall bo able to reserve tho well for tho cattlo . Our house is nearly on the top , or rather on tho side , of a high hill ; and
although we are high and dry , there is a great rush of water from the summit which we can make How into the tank . We should liavo no difficulty in . filling it if we had a slate roof to tho house , but at
present ours is only thatch , which makes tho water off it smoky ; and I know we shall not got a new stone-house for tho next two yearsso we must trust to Providence and hope for plenty of rain .
I find , the older the children grow the more anxiety they are ; I am getting * very anxious about their schooling ' , although I havo managed to teach Kate to read . She will soon bo nine years old , and
I am not competent to teach her to write even if I had tho tiino .
334 On Assisted Emigration,,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/46/
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