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282 OPEN COUNCIL.
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Djsar Miss Mebrtweather, Brisbane, July ...
arrangement that rations no provided one of is the g b lad y matter Government to see , which them have , gives and not them casts been the a damp in impression readiness on their , on at the first spirits time arriving . they The ,
on were who board were wanted shi of p , a and has respectable not the prepared absence class of them . a The few for last simp , has shi le been conveniences which no doub arrived t , inuch which the felt even City by life all of
_JBrishanewas not allowed to discharge its passengers p for several , days after anchoring _, in the Bay , there having arisen a dispute about the proper destination of the people and cargo . The Brisbane powers that bedeclared that
the ship was chartered to Wide Bay , and must proceed thither , before any-The thing captain could leave said that her , the and peop they le had refused all embarked to open the for dep Moreton 6 t , for Bay the , and peop the le .
to cargo take was the all peop sent le out where to they the Brisb did not ane want people to , go and , or he the very cargo properl to y the refused place should it was be not allowed destined to for land . here After and much the depots hesitation were , it opened was decided for them that as usual they .
I went to see them , land ; some , of them looked very thin , having been on half held allowance out properly for the . last The six voyage weeks had of their not been voyage unusuall , the y provisions long and not was havin other g -
wise prosperous , not one death having occurred . The young women seem _, of a more respectable class than many who have come before . Wages are the A sam great e as when of we the came sing , le eig women ht months marry ago soon . after arrivingoften sooner
than prudence many would permit . Many of these hasty marriages , do not result happily , and it not unfrequently happens that one of the two gets tired of it one and . gives This up is his no doubt claim to partl his y partn attributable er , sometimes to the g to irls ' make having room been for of another a low
class before they came , and partly to the exposed situations which some of them get into . There seems to be an opinion among employers generally that " new
In chums two , " or as three all fresh places arrivals , and the are consequence called , are of is but , that little they use either till they get have dismissed been expected very soon , of or them leave at of first their . They own accord often find , because they have they cannot a great be deal all to that learn is
_, "which the employers have not patience to teach them , and sometimes their own too elevated ideas of their own worth and capacities , make them unwilling at first to submit to what a little experience shows themit is better
to put up with . Hence arises the habit of constantly changing , after a very short term of service , and it has a bad effect on all parties . Six months is considered quite a long stay , two or three months is more frequently the
extent of an engagement . They are engaged or dismissed in such a very summary manner , that a girl is never sure of being safe from finding herself suddenly turned out and left to seek another homein the best way she can .
, They out as seldom nurse , in give the more famil than y of a one week of ' s the notice principal , sometimes government none at clerks all- I , went for a short time before we commenced housekeepingand my mistress said to me
, , "It is no use your having a good character from England , or from the officers must depend of the on shi the p you character came in she , nobod earns y in here her believes first places in them . Her , and prosperity every girl
depends so much on what'her first employers say of her , that she ought to be willing to put up with almost anything rather than give offence ; for if she does nothing , the left mistress to hel will her sometimes to a respectable give her a bad living character . This , power and then makes she has the
mistresses expect more p from new girls than from those who have been here some time , and the girls ought to expect to have more to do than they have towhen they have been longer in the lace . " This was not a very kind
speech , for a lady (?) to make to a youn p g girl whom she thought to be friendless in a strange country , and it naturally had . rather a dispiriting
effect . However , I have seen more the reality of things since , and am con-
282 Open Council.
282 _OPEN COUNCIL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/66/
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