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284 open council.
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Djsar Miss Mebrtweather, Brisbane, July ...
blaming a woman for anything she might do in self-defence . I should like to impress on the young women who think of coming , that they need not
hesitate take a voyage from a in feeling an emi of _grant insecurit ship y , . and I can go assure to service them afterwards , that it is , possible and be to as respected and self-respecting at the end , as at the beginning . It is sometimes
necessary efforts to to overcome act with evil decision with and good sp , rarel irit , and y fail to , if ex resolutel ercise great y exerted patience . , The but fact of there being so few really respectable women here , is attributable , I
think , less to the situations they find themselves in , than to their , many of them , having been very indifferent characters when they started . I hope some of my more enlihtened sisterhood will find courage to come before long .
I hear that no g more are to be sent out under the Jordan system . It certainly has not given satisfaction , but I think Mr . Jordan himself does not deserve the censure he receives from people both here and there . It appears
to me , that he is doing his best in what must be a difficult position . He has not had the hearty co-operation of others in the cause , and cannot be more to blame for much of what happens , than are the hands of a clock for pointing
wrong when the wheels will not work right . We heard one of his addresses and read his pamphlets before coming , and I do not think he is guilty of misrepresenting things , as people say he is . He is doubtless rather enthusi- _*
astic , as people generally are who devote themselves to any good cause ; but If too sanguine folks will build magnificent castles in the air , when he is only trying to show them the speediest wayof obtaining a cottage on the earth , he
is not to blame for it . The fact is , it _^ never rains gold here , and it is not possible of the hand to convert . [ Nevertheless the bush wilderness the climate into is a gard deli en htful of Eden and , the by a land mere abun wave
dantly fruitful ; and those who , come out with sober g industrious habits , and reasonable expectations , may have their hopes realised . A great many who comebegin bbeing careless and intemperateand when they find
themselves , unprosperous y they give vent to their chagrin , by abusing Mr . Jordan , because his name happens to be the most prominent in the scheme for assisting them out
unwished A great for deal arrival of excitement of three hundred has been Chinese occasioned . A in determined the town latel effort y , is b being y the : coolies made b from y a India very , small to a , consid but too erable influential extent , but party the , to feeling introduce of the them peop , le and of
Queensland is strongly against it . Several of the most influential of the members of the Assembly are the representatives of large numbers of sheep numbers and cattle of , but electors do not . A represent petition to the the peop Queen le , being is going returned to Eng by land very by small this
mail , requesting her to put her veto on the further importation of the impossible Chinese iinwelcome are to a races very convert , and dirty to I , immoral the hope the , degraded of roy civilized al an set swer life of heathens will and be they decisive , whom cannot . it is The do literall poor y -
thing but harm to the population ways among which they , locate themselves . any It is reall ment numb y . er wrong There of deserving to is encourag room countrymen for e thousands them to of more come our own in among the , starving country us , when for want its there resources of are emp such loy are a -
not half developed yet . Immense tracts of fertile land hav ; e been explored Its along banks the . Albert It is as River yet , quite and a settlement ledand is about a long to be formed from the somewhere populated on
unpeop , way which parts drawn . will a Captain map add of to the Alison the river geograp , one and of h the y the of surround five the who place ing went . country In to diverg search , as ing far for from as Burke they its banks went , has , 1
Into the interior , at the end of about two daysjourney , they came to the not bend quit of" another their course large long river enoug of which h to they follow had it , no and knowled discover ge from , but whence they could , or to whafc
part , it flowed . Captain A . gave me an interesting account of
284 Open Council.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/68/
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