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1839 ADVERTISEMENT - Emigration to South Australia
- MR. E. LATIMER has recently been appointed by the Colonization Commissioners
for South Australia, Special AGENT for the SALE OF LAND in the rising and
important Colony of SOUTH AUSTRALIA, and for conducting the EMIGRATION of
LABORERS desirous of going to that flourishing and healthy country. The
necessary limits of an advertisement barely admit of more than a mere statement
of a few of the advantages connected with Emigration to South Australia. The
great number of settlers that have already gone out have laid the foundation of
a colony, which from the fertility of the soil, its freedom from immense forests
that require their clearance, incessant, and, at the commencement, unrequited
labor - the salubrity of the climate - and the wise precautions taken by the
commissioners to ensure an abundance of laborers to meet the demands of the many
respectable Capitalists that have taken up their residence in the country - all
promise not only the formation of a permanent, but of a highly flourishing
community. The many evils necessarily generated under the old system of Colonial
misjudgement will be avoided by the wise and judicious plans pursued by the
promoters of the Colonization of South Australia, to whose excellent management
almost every emigrant, whether capita! list, artisan, or laborer, has borne his
unqualified testimony.
The emigrants to South Australia will not come in contact with the mass of
iniquity that prevails in the other Australian Colonies, as no convicts are
permitted to be sent to this part of Her Majesty's dominion. Those who know
anything about the corrupt state of society in our penal settlements will at
once see the excellence of this arrangement, as the morals of the emigrants and
of their children will not be liable to receive that taint and corruption which
it is impossible to avoid where they constantly associate with persons who have
been transported for the most heinous offences. The Colony too is not liable to
failure, as the commissioners provide that all land shall be sold at a fixed sum
per Acre, and the proceeds of every such sale are devoted to the conveyance of
labourers free of expense, on certain conditions, some of which are stated
below. Mr. Latimer is ready to negotiate sales of land at a uniform price of
GBP4 per Acres, in sections of 80 acres each. The! parties making such purchases
are allowed the privilege of selecting servants and laborers for a Free Passage,
at the rate of one person for every £20 expended in land, conformably to the
rules of the Commissioners. With respect to laborers wishing to emigrate the
following are the regulations -
1. The Act of Parliament declares that the whole of the funds arising from the
sale of lands, and the rent of pasture, shall form an Emigration Fund, to be
employed in affording a free passage to the Colony from Great Britain and
Ireland for poorer persons; "provided that they shall, as far as possible, be
adult persons of both sexes in equal proportions, and not exceeding the age of
30 years."
2.With a view to carrying this provision into effect, the Commissioners offer a
free passage to the Colony (including provisions and medical attendance during
the voyage) to persons of the following description:
3. Agricultural laborers, Shepherds, Bakers, Blacksmiths, Braziers, and Tinmen,
Smiths, Shipwrights, Boat-builders, Butchers, Wheelwrights, Sawyers,
Cabinetmakers, Coopers, Curriers, Farriers, Millwrights, Harness-makers,
Lime-burners, and all persons engaged in the erection of buildings.
4. Persons engaged in the above occupations, who may apply for a free passage
to South Australia, must be able to give satisfactory references to show that
they are honest, sober, industrious, and of general good character.
5. They must be real laborers, going out to work for wages in the colony, of
sound mind and body, not less than 15, nor more than 30 years of age, and
married. The Marriage Certificate must be produced. The rule as to age is
occasionally departed from in favour of the parents of large families.
6. To the wives of such laborers as are then sent out, the Commissioners offer
a free passage with their husbands.
7. To single women a free passage will be granted, provided they go out under
the protection of their parents, or near relatives, or under actual engagement
as servants to ladies going as cabin passengers on board the same vessel. The
preference will be give to those accustomed to farm and dairy work, to
seamstresses, strawplatters, and domestic servants.
8. The children of parents sent out by the Commissioners will receive a free
passage, if they are under one, or fall 15 years of age at the time of
embarkation. For all other children £5 each must be paid before embarkation by
their parents or friends, or by the Parish. It will be useless to apply for a
relaxation of this rule.
9. Persons who are ineligible to be conveyed out by the Emigration Fund, if not
disqualified on account of character, will be allowed to accompany the free
Emigrants on paying to the commissioners the bare contract price of passage,
which is usually between GBP 15 and 17 for each adult person. The charges for
children are as follows: under one year of age, no charge; one year of age but
under seven, one-third of the charge for adults; seven years of age and under
fourteen, one-half the charge for adults. A passage intermediate between a cabin
and steerage passage may also be obtained of the Commissioners at a cost
exceeding that of the steerage passage by one-half. Each intermediate
passenger is entitled to half a cabin with some slight comforts in addition to
those enjoyed by the steerage passengers.
10. All Emigrants, adults as well as children, must have been vaccinated.
11. Emigrants will, for the most part, embark at the Port of London, but if any
considerable number should offer themselves in the neighbourhood of any port of
Great Britain or Ireland, arrangement will, if possible, be made for their
embarkation at such port.
12. The expense of reaching the port of embarkation must be borne by the
emigrants, but on the day appointed for their embarkation, they will be
received, even though the departure of the ship should be delayed, and will be
put to no further expense.
13. Every adult Emigrant is allowed to take half-a-ton weight or twenty
measured cubic feet of baggage. Extra baggage is liable to charge at the rate of
GBP2.10s the ton.
14. The Emigrants must provide the bedding for themselves and children, and the
necessary tools of their own trades; the other articles most useful for
emigrants to take with them, are strong plain clothing, or the materials for
making clothes upon the passage. In providing clothing, it should be remembered
that the usual length of the voyage is about four months.
15. On the arrival of the Emigrants in the colony, they will be received by an
Officer, who will supply their immediate wants, assist them in reaching the
place of their destination, be ready to advise with them in case of difficulty,
and at all times give them employment at reduced wages on the Government works,
if from any cause they should be unable to obtain it elsewhere. The Emigrants
will, however, be at perfect liberty to engage themselves to any one willing to
employ them, and will make their own bargain for wages. This arrangement, while
it leaves the Emigrant free to act as he may think right, manifestly renders it
impossible for the Commissioners to give any exact information as to the amount
of wages to be obtained; they can merely state that hitherto wages have been
very much higher than in England.
Mr. Latimer will readily furnish any other information that may be required by
persons desirous of emigrating whether as free or cabin passengers; but all
communication to him on this subject must be postage free. ROSEWYN, Truro,
February 27, 1839
1841 NEW SOUTH WALES. EMIGRATION, Under Authority from Australia. A free passage will be given to a limited number of married agricultural laborers, shepherds, carpenters, masons, smiths, bricklayers, and wheelwrights, provided they are of good character, and under 40 years of age. A few passages will also be given to female, domestic, and farm servants under 30 years, and to single men of the like calling in life, above 18 and under 30 years of age, provided they are related to families who are emigrating. They will be conveyed in the under-mentioned first class ships, the "ALBATROSS," 750 tons, Captain BOULT, to sail from Liverpool 25th June, and from Dublin 1st July. The "LALLA ROOKH," 500 tons, Captain KENNEY(?) to sail from London 14th August, and be landed free of expense at Sydney, New South Wales. Also by the first class ships, "ALEXANDER," 700 tons, Captain RAMSAY, to sail from London 24th July and from Plymouth 2nd August; and "HIMALAYA," 500 tons, Captain HURN, to sail from London 20th September, and from Plymouth 27th September, for Port Phillip and Sydney. These ships have spacious poops, with first-rate accommodation for cabin, intermediate, and steerage passengers, and carry experienced surgeons. For freight or passage, immediate application to be made to Messrs, MASSON and HOGGINS, 5 Lime-street Square, London, or to William HOWE, Esq., Stratton, Cornwall. Messrs. Masson and Hoggins despatch a regular succession of first-class ships for the same destination monthly.
1841 FREE EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. Married men, belonging to the labouring classes, may have a FREE PASSAGE to the thriving Colony of NEW ZEALAND, if of good character and coming within the rules prescribed. All information may be obtained on application to Mr. LATIMER, TRURO, or Mr. A. B. DUCKHAM, FALMOUTH.
Source: West Briton
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