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    XLVIII.—THE DEPARTURE OF MISS RYE FOR TH...

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    The numerous friends who have heartily s...

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    Xlviii.—The Departure Of Miss Rye For Th...

    XLVIII . —THE DEPARTURE OF MISS RYE FOR THE _COLONIES .

    The Numerous Friends Who Have Heartily S...

    The numerous friends who have heartily sympathised with Miss « Rye ' s labours in the work of emigration may be glad to hear a

    few details of her departure on the 3 rd of November for New Zealandwith a large company of female emigrants .

    , The John Duncan being appointed to sail on the 3 rd , a meeting of ladies and gentlemen was arranged for the evening of Saturday

    the 1 st of November , to bid her farewell and God-speed . It was held in the rooms of the Social Science Associationin Waterloo

    , Place , which have so often gathered together groups of fellowworkers , under the kindly care of the Secretary . About seventy

    people were present , nearly an equal number of ladies and gentlemen , almost everyone being personally connected , by friendship or

    by practical interest in her work , with Miss Rye . The Hon . Arthur Kinnaird took the chair . Mr . HastingsLady Franklin

    , , Lady Dowling , Mr . Monckton Milnes , M . P ., Miss Craig , Mrs . BodichonMrs . Webber , and Mr . Edwin Chadwickwere among

    , , those present . Mr . Kinnaird having announced the object of the meeting , Mr . Hastings gave a short summary of Miss Rye ' s previous

    work , and stated that she was about to go to the Australian Colonies to investigate their real condition as to the need of female

    labour , to form reception committees of ladies , and to make those nuineixms arrangements which personal presence and exertion can

    alone efficiently create . Miss Rye would take out with her in the John _Dtmca ? ibound for Otago . in New Zealand 100 womenof

    , , , "whom 8 were governesses , 30 were factory girls from Manchester and the manufacturing districts , and the remainder domestic servants .

    A discussion then took place in which Judge Tewy , of Sydney , Mr . Marshman , of Canterbury , N . Z ., and Lady Dowling , ( widow of

    the late Chief Justice of New South Wales , ) took part , and likewise Mr . Chadwick , and Mr . Monckton Milnes . Lady Dowling , in a few

    words suited to a mixed assembly , expressed her desire that nurses for the sick should be sent out . We have since received from Lady

    Dowling a more explicit statement of the need , which we print here , as it conveys in her own words the result of her experience in

    Australia . " At the meeting on the 1 st of November I simply announced

    the great want of duly qualified nurses in the Australian colonies . But in a case of such importance , a few particularsdrawn froia

    , personal knowledge , may not be out of place , especially now that the attention of the people of England has been reawakened

    to the importance of emigration . In truth , so great is the want that I namethat to this alone much of the ill-health of young

    , . married women may be traced . " When far removed from the tender care of a mother , and

    illness comes , these young creatures fall at once wholly under the

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/45/