THE RELEASE OF THE HYDASPES SALOON PASSENGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1489, 18 November 1874, Page 3

THE RELEASE OF THE HYDASPES SALOON PASSENGERS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —I see by your useful paper that the saloon passengers per Hydaspes are coming up to-day. Is there one law for the rich and another for the poor in this country ? By Jove, it seems like it. First the ship is released, and now the saloon passengers, as though the crew were not liable to carry any disease. Why, sir, they are the very people, for do they not, in the exercise of their duty, go all over the ship, and the saloon passengers too if they like. But the immigrants are obliged to keep to their own part of the ship, according to the rules. Now, sir, I ask you in all fairness, why should the single men be kept there in idleness, when there has been no sickness amongst them ? They have not been allowed to mix with the others, and so I should think they are not so likely to carry the germs of any disease with them as the crew. But, sir, it seems there is no money interest at stake, like the ship ; nor are they considered of so much importance as saloon passengers. But in a few years hence some of them will be better off, I predict ; but that is not the point. I maintain they have as much right to their release as the crew or saloon passengers, and if they are not dealt with the same, I shall consider there is one law for the rich and another for the poor.—Yours, truly, Immigrant.