THE IMMIGRANTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 2

THE IMMIGRANTS.

Owing to the reports which havebeen circulated for some days past as te the class of immigrants ex the Asia, they have been an unusually long time in the Barracks, and there is every likelihood of a number of them remaining there till the next shipload a>lives, when ttiey may find engagements along with them. That there is good foundatioa for some of these statements there can be but little doubt, although they are nob by any means applicable to the whole of those now awaiting employment. Some of the men are really hard- working fi Hows, and ted sorely the remarks which have been made, while, on the other hand, some of them posit iv(dy refuse to do any work, and it is not till they see the barrack-master and some of their better-disposed sh pmates bard at work that they can be prevailed upon to even tidy their own rooms Amongst the latter are a number of what are termed “ Whitechapellers,” who answer to such names as “New Cut prigs,” &0., and whose conduct on the voyage was very noticeable. The girls who were chosen by . Mrs Howard from (it is said) the Cork Reformatory are undoubtedly the poorest specimens of domestic helps imported into the Province. Most of them succeeded in getting situations in the early part of the 'week, but a number of them have been sent back to the barracks, as they were perfectly helpless, and totally unfit for the employment to which they professed they had been accustomed. It is reported that the Government intend taking action in this matter. Messrs Guthrie and Larnach, this morning, requested that all the remaining single men might be forwarded to them, and they will ga to work on Monday. . The matron and barrack-master have anything but an enviable position, and the imauner in., which they fulfil their duties is entitled to commendation.