THE EMIGRANTS' FRIEND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 22 November 1889, Page 2

THE EMIGRANTS' FRIEND.

It turns oat, Bays the Wellington " F ost," that the " emigrants' friend," Mrs Blanch rd, for whom FrinceEs Mary of Teck ia said to be trying to get a peasion, is a woman we 1 known m New Zealand under the nama of Mrs Caroline AUpenny. During the early days of the Otago diggings she carried on an extensive registry office m Dnnedin, the basinets chiefly ooaeiating of tha Bupply of danciag girls to goldfield shanties. She afterwards married a chemist m Princes street r.aoi' d Howard, who dted not very long afterwards. Mis Howard then induced Sir Julius Yogel to appoint b«r an emigration agent to select tingle women for New Zealand. Mra Howard's method was ingenious. She went aoros3 to Ireland and made op a shipload or two from the workhouse?: The ship Aria, to Otago, and we thinic the Woodlark, to this poet, were so freighted, and a great number of their passengers went to the bad m this colony. So did a number of other shiploads of Mrs Howard's selection. It is for soryices such as these that Lord Salisbury is now asked to give Mrs Blanchard a pension, as she is again a widow. Her friendship for emigrants oonsistedin making a good profit out of them, without the slightest regard to their subsequent fate