The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 712, 22 July 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1878.

Toe applications to Mr. HEriKETH for female servants are, at this season, so numerous that it i 3 quite impossible to grant them all. That there is room in this district for hundreds of respectable, useful female servants there can be no doubt, and the sooner representations are made to the Immigration Department with the view of filling Ihuhurius which at present presses so heavily on people with families, the better. Not only is there not a suilicient number of domestic servants in this district at the f>resent time to meet the wants of employers of such labor, but the majority of such fis we have are of a most inferior description. Various are their qualifications for the positions that they essay to occupy. In some, laziness i* in the ascendency; in others, impudence ; *»id in others, immorality ; whilst a very respexsiabje number possess these three peculiarities in addi- 1 tion to a host ot others equally undesi-j rable. This is what heads of families are supposed to encourage by paying L3O and upwards per year. In numerous instances, no nooner does a servant enter the doors of her employer fljan the relative positions of mistress and maid are reversed, and what is in error termed a l - slavey," whilst professing to be subservient jn everytliing, does just what she likea. Tfyß featiffe ysiTng 4 creature attends a. daiJWpg class, a luxury which is carjiSU on in with the ifcungr*? find weary abound in foaH&iff-'* She is whiffed romid in th' 9 guluy dance and ciigzsfif -" amusements'; for" the-sake «f 'vaclety tilT»the small hoHrs of the mowing. She tfion proceeds hjame ; and notjalh>wed the najstet of,the*house— r 6 <warilslS6 <-T by swuibfof t>a«iSns—thaf.'isjrjividual "tumbl-s tped,. rfTjfrt, shivering limbs, ihe d&T- is no uss complaining; foV, -rf v yrrti cb>, she wi.ll give y<7fc she can always secure* a-xUving in Hi«3e places .to which she jjesoft© for amusement. , Mai)}' girls are ifiot noted fta anything ft paftifiiilar, except itfee, ariVH>parVht of work. s£ CM&yo'a wash t" often asJgjjd of an applicant for* situation. The reply is»>" Yes.'l can l ) d ,, »' t care about it. t" Can yon<*tbok V —"l never did any cookinir." " Are ymi accustomed to minding children ?-"—"Are there any children I I don't care about taking a situation where there are children." ""'What wages do you expect .'" '• L""> a-year." Can it be wotidi-red at that such useless creatures are ti-ld that

they will not suit. L 35 a year for doingnothing but eating,, drinking, sleeping. and wasting food, which brings tinamount up to close upon LIOO. Wn.it is the tttility of bringing suoh characters t>> this colony I Tiieir emigration may !>•-• considered decidedly beneficial to the Oid Country, but we would rather that they were not thrust upon us.