THE IMMIGRANTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3556, 16 July 1874, Page 2

THE IMMIGRANTS.

KOO 16 W lva ! of fcke Sussex, with close on 500 souls on board, has put the immigration authorities in a fix, as the accommodation provided at the barracks is now more than occupied. With those who arrived by the three Home ships on Monday, over 1,500 will have been landed here this week—the largest number yet poured into any one port ot the Colony in a similar time. There are at present 100 single men in the barracks and seventy-five families, and the ironing rooms and some of the outhouses have had to be used as sleeping apartments. Seventy or eighty souls, con-isting mainly of single 7. < ?“ en u au d y ou ng men, are to be sent "to Milton by Cobb’s coach, the first lot of them going to-morrow morning. On asking the barrack-master how he was to make provision for the immigrants by the Sussex, conconsidering the present overcrowded state of the barracks, he replied, ‘‘ Of course we cannot take any more just now, but we hope to be relieved in a day or so by some of those now here being sent either to the country or to situations.” a man who came out here as an immigrant by the Michael Angelo about twelve mouths ago called at the barracks this morning and engaged a servant for his own house. He was himself engaged from the barrreks to work on the railway, and has been very successful, having taken a contract himself. A dozen single girls were engaged to day at from L 25 to L3O, and a ploughman for twelve months at L 62 per annum. One gentleman agreed to take four single ploughmen, but there was not one in the barracks, several married ploughmen are in want of situations, but canuot get them on account of the want of accommodation for their families in the country. The whole of the immigrants seem very anxious for work.

The following is a list of the trades and occupations of those on board the Sussex, from London :—Farm laborers, 51 ; gardener, 1 j general laborers, 65 ; miners, 4 ; navvies, 2; butcher, 1 ; carpenters, 20 • joiners, 3 ; wheelwright, 1; blacksmiths, 6 ; engineer, 1; hammer-man, 1 ; tinsmith, 1 • zinc-worker, 1 ; biicklayers, 3 ; brick makers' 2; masons, 2 ; plasterers. 2; slater, 1 • saddler, 1; shoemakers 2; maltster, I ; millwright, 1 ; painters, 2; platelayers, 1 j porter, 1 ; ropemaker, 1; railway laborers, 3. Single women: Bookbinder, 1; cooks, 3 ; general servants, 34; housekeeper, 1 j housemaids, 5 ; laundress, 1 : nurse, 1. Total, 226. Summary : English 105 males, 28 females ; Scottish, II males, 1 female; Irish, 78 ; Danish, 2 ; German! 65 ; Italian, 9 ; Swedish, 1 ; total, 495.