BANKRUPTCY ACT NOTICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3251, 8 July 1872, Page 2

BANKRUPTCY ACT NOTICE.

DECLARATION OF INHOI.VBNUY. Thomas Henry Ekkimijk, Labourer, Port Chalmers. Filed, July (ith.

EMIGRATION FROM SCOTLAND

TO OTAGO.

Fort William, May 10th, 1572. To MesFrs P. Henderson and Co.,

15, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow.

Gentlemen— An intending emigrant to Ofcago, Jeßßie Campbell, at present in my service, has detailed to me, in great distress, the painful predicament in which she has been placed, and asked my assistance. She Las put into my hands a correspondence Hhe has had with the Agent-Cent ral for New Zealand, 7 Westminster Chambers, Victoria street, Westminster, S. VV.

On 2nd March, the Agent-General writes her that " her friends have paid £f> at Otago towards? cost of her passage thither. The first ship in which passage can lie obtained is the William Davie, to receive passengers in Glasgow on sth April." She answered that the term of her contract as a domestic servant would not expire till Whitsunday, and that uh'i would not be at liberty to emigrate before that time.

On 1 th March the Agent-General writes her:—"The applicant may postpone her departure for the present. No ship is fixed to succeed the William Davit."

On 18th March he again writes :—" It is not probable that the ship to follow the William Davie, and to Bail from Glasgow, will be despatched before Ist Juno. Will the applicant wait for that nhip ? " She immediately answered that she would wait for that ship. On the* 29th April «he sees your advertisement, stating that the vessel to succeed the William Davie is the James N. Fleming, and to sail from Glasgow for New Zealand on 30th Slay, " and is under contract with, the Agent-General for New Zealand," and she writes the AgentGeneral accordingly. On 3rd May, the Agent-General acknowledges receipt of her letter of 29th April, and says:—"The next vessel forOtago will sail from London early in June. Will the applicant be prepared to take her passage in this ship? An early reply requested." On Gth May the applicant replied, asking whether she could not embark in tho GLosgow ship. And on May Bth Bhe received the following letter : —" The Agent-General regrets that it is impossible for the applicant to embark in a ship to sail from Glasgow, as ho hf»B no arrangement with the owners of the ships which load at the Clyde. The applicant may send her deposit in a week." From these facts it humbly appears to me that there was an agreement with the AgentGeneral on 11th and 15th March, to the effect that if the applicant expressed her willingness to wait for the Glasgow ship which was to succeed the William Davie, to be despatched about list June, the AgentGeneral would find a passage in it for tho applicant. She did intimate her consent to wait for that ship, and the Agent-General now declines to implement the agreement. This places the young woman (who is a superior domestic servant) in a \ rery unfortunate and cruel position. She relic lon your advertisement that your iihip was to sail on 30th May, under contract with tho AgentGeneral, and on the Agent-General's contract to send her by the ship to sail from Glasgow in succession to the William Davie, about Ist June ; and she is now told by the AgentGeneral that he has no arrangement with the owners of any ships to sail from the Clyde. She made all arrangements for reaching Glasgow in time for the sailing on 30th May of the James N. Fleming. And, on tho other hand, she has not sufficient means to undertake a journey from the north of Scotlank to London, with the prospect of detention there for an indefinite time, waiting on the sailing of ashipnotnamed, to sailearlym June. Looking at the express terms of the state- j ment in the Agent-General's letter, which j appears to be inconsistent with your advertisement, can you suggest any means whereby ; tlie £5 paid at Otago can be made available to enable the emigrant to get a passage^ by your shin, the James N. Fleming, advertised to sail on 30th of this month 1 Or can you oxplain the meaning of the Agent-General now declining to recognise any connection with emigrant ships from the Clyde to New Zealand ? And what relief or advice can you. offer to this unfortunate emigrant 1 Waiting your reply, I have, &c, Ajndrkw Fh.vseu, .Sheriff Substitute. P.S.—I send a copy of this letter to tho Agent-GeneraJ