QUEENSLAND

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 81, 14 August 1863, Page 3

QUEENSLAND

f From the Guardian.)

Female Immigration. —We have more i than once had csiuse to refer to female immigration to this colony. We have sometimes had our iears lest well - meaning persons at home, in connection with the societies that exist fur the purpose of aiding young women to leave their country, have erred in supposing that there existed a field here for female occupation of a higher department than that of common household service. Queensland, for the population it contains, employs a fair proportion of females, but these are almost entirely engaged in domestic work. The labor of the better educated class of young women is not much in demand. Our colony is too young for that, and our families are too much iuvolved in struggles for prosperity in a material point of view, to bestow either much time or money on what may be supposed to have to do more with the intellectual and moral. A time will come when we shall put before us a higher standard, when we shall be less absorbed in materialistic ideas, when we shall give full force to the claims of the intellect and the moral faculty, and when, consequently, men and women of attainments and accomplishments shall find their labor in greater demand and better remunerated.

A new journal is about to be established in Brisbane under the auspices of tue Roman Catholic body. As a Brisbane journal it is new, but in Ipswich it has for a long time back been known as the ,\ orth A ustralian.

The Gladstone correspondent of th Maryborough Chronicle states that Mr. H. F. Sloman, the gentleman who claims the credit or introducing Sea Island cotton into Queensland, intends turning his attention to tobacco growing this season, his object being more to lest the capability of Queensland for growing this article than for profit. This gentleman has sea island cotton plants seven years old in full bearing. The same paper also states : — " We have a splendid sample of cotton of this year's picking brought »o us by Mr. Cockirg, manager of the Walliebum Plantation, which we shall be happy to show to any person calling at our office."