FEMALE IMMIGRATION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1363, 11 December 1872, Page 2

FEMALE IMMIGRATION.

The Daily Times gives the following particulars regarding Mrs Howard's proposals to the Government, of which mention was made in our telegrams the other day : — "We mentioned some time since that testimonials from ladies and gentlemen in this province had been forwarded to the General Government, recommending Mrs Caroline G. Howard for appointment as an assistant emigration agent for the colony in Britain. These testimonials, we understand, were forwarded by the Government to the Agent-General, and while the Government, in accordance with a promise made to Dr Featherston, would not make this or any other appointment of an emigration agent, they strongly advised him to appoint Mrs Howard to such an office. Mrs Howard intends leaving on the fourth of next month for London, by way of Melbourne, and irrespective of the fact whether she receives an appointment or not, has a philanthropic object in view which she intends to carry but, namely, the establishment at ports of embarkation of homes, at which female immigrants can be taken care of from the time they arrive in the city till they go on board ship. From conversations with female immigrants on their arrival in the Colony, she found that a want which they had keenly felt, and which was often the cause of suffering,' and in some instances of degradation to them, was that between the day on which they arrived at the port of sailing, and the day on which they went on board, there was no cheap respectable lodging house at which they could be accommodated, and that they were consequently in danger of being beguiled into low places, and led to ruin. At. present Mrs Howard informs us, many of the girla do not know they are entitle 4sq receive an allowance when the sailing of the vessel is postponed, and that fewer still receive the allowance, though under proper management it could be recovered; and an institution such as she contemplates establishing could by this and other means be soon made self-supporting. Mrs Howard will carry letters of introduction from various ladies and gentlemen in the iColony to the AgentGeneral, ecclesiastical dignitaries in England, and to gentlemen taking an interest in emigration. She will have similar letters to the members of the Ministry and leading politician^ of Victoria to aid Her in the accomplish jfaent of this object, as her endeavor will bp to provide accommodatiopt for .emigrants, not only to New Zealand, but to the colonies generally. On her arrival in J^ondon, it is her intention to lecture, and to organise committees of ladies to help her in the carry* ing into effect of the task she, has set before herself, and also to obtaiirthe assistance of clergymen and ofchgjf gentlemen interested in emigration;