IMMIGRANTS BY THE ASIA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 54, 9 May 1874, Page 6

IMMIGRANTS BY THE ASIA.

Last week we called attention to a statement in the ( Daily Times,' to the effect that thirty-three ot the female immigrants by the Asia had come from a Reformatory in Queenstown ; and we said, in reply, that there was no Reformatory at all at Queenstown. The ' Daily Times,' notwithstanding the very great injury done by its untrue statement, has not had the justice to endeavour to make amends. On the contrary, cur contemporary has since published a letter from the medical doctor of the Asia, in which this officer speaks of the female immigrants who came on board at Queenstown from a Reformatory. It is not improbable that this gentleman is the '• best authority" relied on by the ' Times.' At all events, we beg to state there is no Reformatory for females in Cork city or county, and that it would be more satisfactory to the public to mention the name of the Reformatory from which the immigrants came, than to make vague statements. People could thus test the truth of the doctor's statement. We understand that this gentleman has confounded with a Reformatory, an institution of a very different character.