The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 718, 29 July 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878.

The female servant difficulty ia becoming bo monotonous that there are few employers of such labor hereabouts that wonld view a change as a thing to be deplored. People are getting as tired of the hnm-drum state of the, domestic servant market as they would be with the strains of a barrel organ always playing the same tune. There is not much to ; choose between an Oijmaru domestic servant and an organ grinder H'ith gnly ' one tone in hia repertoire. Both artawarded something for the trouble of going into the next street. Thia is only shifting the annoyance, and yet it appears that it mußt be ao. Maggie does nut suit M». A- She is politely informed of the fact by b*r r,jis!ivss: and a week later finds hw u-i . :'.ua'i">ii. In tr.-s man:". * a:. ... round

of ike dome'-it-of tlu town ..i - - • a , ' f t ' le spot from wheiico t*ho M --fced. iius performance i« repeated onco or twice, until ad we stated at the commencement tha fun becomes monotonous. At length a deed of separation is mentally executed. Maggie wanfsafreali place. She sees several persona advertising" in fh.a papers, and enquires of the publisher who they a re. j She is informed tlmt one is from Mrs. A.—" The house is too large." The next is Mrs. B.—"I don't like her." Then there is Mrs. C.—"l have been there before." She at last leaves the publisher to seek after » jritnation at Mrs. D.'s, although she feels j.Fetty gertain that it will not suit her. We are Buffering fppni servant»phobia, because we have had thrust upon us the "culls" from the shipments that have arrived in Port Ohatmere- We have previously pointed out the injustice that we are suffering in this respect, tlw »•&,# of which is due to tlie Dnnediniatic propensities of the ImmigrAtion Officer, at whose werey w« are. He has been in the habit of conveying all the domestic and farm servants to the bamwka at Caversham, and sending ns the residue #fter the cream had been skimmed off. JJp pjesds sorts _of difficulties as his excuse for 4o'WZ tl »is ; but if the department wepe properly administered, suah difficulties would never have arisen ; or, at least, if they did arise, & wise and competent head would keep them to himself, and surmount them as thongh they had nev.r existed. The Invercarsjill left Glasgow on the 16th of July last wjth about 340 immigrants, including a number of domestic servants. She should arrive at Port Chaljners in the third week in October. Will the Immigration Officer at Dunedin convey these also to Caversham to undergo the ordeal by which we get the "culls'" It is about time that representations were made to the Government by our members. When an immigrant vessel aitrivec at Lyttelton, the Immigration Officer at Timarn pr ceeds on board the vessel, sees fair play done, and takes his sham back with nim. Inveroargill is favored by getting direct shipments. Why, then, should we be satisfied with other people's refuse, which render respectable homes wretched, and the majority of which find ftn asyhipj in the dens of infamy honoured with tlje name of " Boarding Houses."