IMMIGRANTS PER CHILE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 257, 29 October 1874, Page 2

IMMIGRANTS PER CHILE.

[It is with very great pleasure that we give insertion to the following letter. ' The reports that reached us of tbe scenes enacted on Tuesday night compelled ns to comment in strong tqrms upon the conduct of those of the new arrivals who took part in them, and it is gratifying tp lis, as it mnst be to the public generally, to learn that so few were implicated. Our correspondent has only done justice to himself and tbe other "sober and steady ones " in the letter he has addressed tp us, which, as we said before, we have great pleasure in publishing. It is needless for us to say that the epithets we' made usa of were only intended to apply to those who disgraced themselves by their conduct.] if/ To THE EniTOE OF THB ' EVENING MAU,.* Sra— £n your comments in yesterday's paper on "Immigrants per Chile " are you aware that yoii are classifying a very large majority of quietly disposed and respectable persons as being guilty of "rowdy and blackguardly coriduct," who are not only ashamed pf . the "** rows " and "rowdy persons, but since your article appeared in the> paper, ar^e 'ashamed to own the name "Chile 'V, .... , „ V Your broad assertion',' of course,- Collects- us all into one heap of riotous and disorderly blackguards. However, for the vindication of our good names, I hope, Sir, you will kindly allow me space to state a few facts respecting Monday evening's disgraceful proceedings, which will perhaps help to show you that there are a great number of as who, on that eveniog, retained our senses, and are jealous of the good names we bave brought with us from the old country, and which we mean to maintain in our new home, by .strict adherence to law and good order, knowing that without such we can neither do oarselves' or the colony any good. A The Chile carrie'J about 200 passengers and 16 sailors. Out of the 2< 0 passengers I can only ascertain the names of three married men, eight single men, and one married woman who were participators in the disgusting brawl. The sailors (I am informed on good authority; took the most.' prominent part in the proceedings. The bother of iginated from the crew, and they carried it out all through the day, by acting the principal parts. If one or two policemen had been stationed near the quay in their respected blue during the early partof the day, the trouble of the evening would never bave occurred. The total absence of these gentlemen quite surprised me, as Hooked on i at the b; ginning of the. disturbances. . I was further surprised to sco by your paper, and to hear from others, that the polii c force is not :: adequate to the requirements Pf the 'town. ' The majority, then, of the immigrants were — where all ought to have been— in the depot; in tbeir beds by ten o'clock, and therefore I think, Sir, that yon ought to mo iify your comments, and by doit g so- you will greatly oblige, Emigrant pbr Cbu,e, , On behalf of the sober and steady ones!

It is stated that the Hon Mr Waterhouse has divided bis honorarium of the late session between the Wairarapa In stitnte and the Wairarapa Hospital. A farmer not far out of town em\ ployed an immigrant not long ago, and having given him some work to go on with, went away for several days. On returning he found that the work done by the man might easily have been done io one day in place iof three, and expressed this opinion to bim. Tbe man said in excuse that he had never done such work before. " Well," said the employer,, " tell me what you used to do at home, and I will give you the same here." Tbe answer proved too much though, for the man told him that be had been, used to " selling tripe!'*—- Wanganui paper. Scientists, remarks the Danedin , Guardian, have laid it down as a -rule ; that in tbis province there can be no regular gold - bearing quartz - lodes. The * latest ' answer to their theory is supplied by the last fortnight's returns from the GromWfeli Corojkny'a claim atBendigo • 2,300 ozs. f- r for aix weeks' work, and a prospect of a speedy yield of 15,000 ozs. more, is a remarkably practical answer, and may be said to have effectually demolished the theory. The traffic returnsjpf; the Southland railways show that in ihe month of August there was an increase of a _ hundred per cent, as compared witbrthe : corresponding period of last year. There to be a useful pbilan* thropic institution in San Francisco (aaya the Thames Advertiser) , which; might be copied" with advantage in this colony. A letter waa received on Friday by tbe Mikado, wbich was posted in San Francisco, but evidently . was not fully prepaid, for it bore the '- usual postage mark "held for postage." The requisite stamps (,w?re ? however, affixed by some authority, and on one comer of the letter waa poated a scrap of printed matter containing the fol- ; lowiog intimation:— "This letter was found, in the.Sau! Franctaoo postpffice witbout the required stamps to forward it, and should have been sent tp this ! dead letter office. Please return stamp, i en abliog us to oblige others. Address, P. 0., box 297, S. F. Cal." I ;—ZZ^^ ___,