THE CHILE IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1201, 9 December 1873, Page 2

THE CHILE IMMIGRANTS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star)

Sik, —Will you allow some remarks from the second cabin of the Chile respecting the immigrants by that ship. The vesselnot being a large one we came very much into contact with both the married people and the singlo women, and I am therefore able to give a fair and truthful opinion. The sweeping condemnation passed on the married folks is certainly unjust and much surprised me. The writer is a man as susceptible "as myself to annoyance and disgust at bad language. From his position in the ship he would chielly come in contact with those of the passengers who carried as sea-stock the same habits of .speech as they had been accustomed to use in their native slums, and I presume he must have formed a judgment much as King David did when he said in his haste " all men are liars ;" these I give up to him, and I must confess that some of the worst offenders were of the femalo persuasion. I can, however, most fully and cheerfully corroborate Crawford in all his statements— the majority of the emigrants were of most respectable character, more so than I expected to meet with in an emigrant ship. I endorse every word he has written as to the married people and the single women ; the single men I did not see so much of, but what I saw and heard bears me out in commending them. It is only fair to add that as to all, without exception, both passengers and crew, neither I nor my wife (and we often spoke to sailors and associated with passengers) ever had uncivil or improper language or behaviour offered ; the offenders in this way were supposed to keep bad language among their own class. 1 should be sorry to point out any individuals, but I must say that a few do deserve the condemnation passed on them, one which I think all persons', deserve who will not learn what is blackguard and what proper language and behaviour, and who are equally careless whether they pain and offend those who do not indulge in the same habits, and I make these remarks publicly in the hope that they may see them, and be induced for the future to raise their standard. I beg to repeat that the majority of the Chile's immigrants are most steady, orderly, and respectable people, and 1 believe an acquisition to the colony.—l am, &c, SECOND CABIW.