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STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION. 241
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« Our Scheme For Promoting The Emigratio...
• Maid-servants' wages range from 20 dolls , to 30 dolls , a month ( at present , ) _yrith is usuall , of course y allowed , board theni extra at — home from , £ thoug 60 to h . £ 72 on a this year latter —with head more of liberty cours than e it
would Sober be industrious exceedingly mechanics unwise to inform do well them her , or e ; excite and accumulate improper expectations property— . after O or ffice a time seek — passing and occasionall professional y men throu , g indeed h , periods , all who of depression use the head . instead of _^ withoutthe handuseless here
The bane of , the country s , are perfectl drink ; y assisted much . "by the removal of the ¦ influence p strai ressure ht . , which Personal that at portion home character has of p comes ubli powerful c o out pinion here an effect consistin sharp l g and of pin clearl social g to keep and defined thin famil g y
I re g gret that I cannot give you any hopes of , being able to benefit y educated . women by sending them out here . Maid-servants ( of course of decent would character be ) taken would care be a of grea at t once boon to The us , greatest if not too viilance many and at a precaution time , and
• be w not ould of too use be stron to absolu g ly tel insist I y am necessar on Madam this y on point the . voyage . Trusting to keep that them g these , from few injury remarks . I can may - y
, , Xour , obedient servant , Sarah Crease . * the P best . S . — possible I have opened kind of my emigration letter to —they say that are a the 'tie emi on g each ratio other n of familie and host s is
b Care a , g protection es to must fortune also to be for each taken each other that other against women ' s good approach emi behaviour grants or in shoul injury the colony not durin b , g while cast the , loose th voyage ey ar on e _.
their The arrival uesti in on the rem colony ainsH . is this familclass of emirants to be sent out ? The onl q y answer is , by , an emigration fund y partly subscribed g by the colony . If
our efforts can ag that itate t irection he question will at home hasten , and the g time et the when Government all our wishes to bac can k w be elcome carried and out a , Home and educa . , ted you as well as uneducated women find kindly
_Tlie next communication is from Mrs . Barker , wife to the Bishop of Sydney : —
My dear Lady Dowling , Bishop's Court , Sydney , July 9 th , 1861 . your I kind was lette very r enclosing sorry to le a t note the last from Miss il leave Rye ; Sy the dne pressure y withou of t correspon a reply to
particular m dence istr Since esses upon wr , department i t me ing just fi t o you then tha . , of t Most must ferin very g be of few to the apology provide sing parochi le . women for al a schools limited are re are q number uired of a mixed to of fill school cha tha - -
racter , —i . e . hoys and girls are taught together by the master in the morning , an The d the are girls are para ins t tructed ively few in sewing schools in kept the afternoon by unmarried by the pers master ons , ' so s wife this .
_Tb m ranch atrons of lab ins or tit does utions not hold sel out dom encourag required ing , and hopes whenever to the e a m position igrant . A of gain that , . land fill meet the falls with place vacant a . provision The , numerous only are persons applicants wh females o are appear qu competent ite , who certain are , to humanl generall act either y y speaking suitab as good le , to to
nursery governesses , or sufficient young ly educated for governesses of a higher grade . For With such reference persons I to do the think first the thre openings e who were are almost to leave _ivitJwut England a lim in it June . , there
an * agent Mentioned for us " . by — Mr J . C . Mackenzie . as thoroughly reliable , and likely to become _,
Stray Letters On Emigration. 241
STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION . 241
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/25/
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