AN IMMIGRANTS LETTER HOME.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2336, 28 August 1875, Page 2

AN IMMIGRANTS LETTER HOME.

Tub following is a copy of a letter which has bevn eeut home to her friends by a 3 - oung girl, and which gives ft very good idea of thu advantages young women havo here compared to England : —

"DiiAß Maby, — We "are a great way from each other, but I often think of you uud our other companions who arc still with you. According to my promise, I now commence a second letter to you from my new home. I yavo you the news of our voyajjo befprc, and told you what life we had whilst pasxin^ over the sea. We looked n loug time for this New Plymouth before we reached it. I cauuot write you all I desire to do. You know I preiksed ou you to como with us, but I suppose you did uot like to leave William. I ventured, uud we arrived here safely, aud have found tiio place a pleasant ouc, and the people are very friendly. I have no fear about the Blacks, as we used to call them ; but they are not black, Lut brown. They come into the towu with bullock-carts loaded with Jircwood, which they sell to the settlers for vijjht or ten shillings per load ; besides that, some of them bring live pigs, turkeys, potatoes, Indian corn, or inuizte, as it is called, and ilux baskets, or " kits." These, I nmlold, aro principally made by tho women. A good number of them — both mon and 1 women—go and spend the money at the public-lioua's, aud get so drunk tlmt they .avu put into the carts, and lie together in the bo^pms, the bullocks .taking them houiu sometimes.

" I have hadtwo places uiuce I arrived here: Tho one I haveuotr is a • very good one, and uot much to do. I have a good portion of the j afternoon for inygelf. . Servants get from cix Shillings to eeyen shillings per week. This enables \:n to purchase better clothes than we used to. veur. at-home. It in no uncommon thing for the servant .to drees fiuor thau Lor ntistret^.

"I caunpt write you much moa*, but I mu*t tell ouc thing— thafl want you to sec Jack, uud tell him that it is all over with us now,. Its he would not come with us. I have got a #ood eliap and he wuuts me to give my mistress notice to leave, and if I will, he will m'arrV me, 'jmd his father is willing it may tako place. Tell tiamb. «ho had better come here. iSlie would not be long without au offer. You know how to direct to mo.' Let me know how you aro gettiug on, if it be not too far to como out, and then wo shall bo coinpauy for each other."