THE PALMER GOLDFIELD.
The following extract from a Palmerston paper will afford some indication as to tlio delightful climate of that country: It is a very anomalous state of things that whilst working men are leaving Port Darwin in search of new fields of occupation, there is scarcely a man to be got for love or money. The Government advertise for tenders and nobody replies to the advertisements ; private persona
advertise for servants or laborers and there are no applications. A club, for ' instance, may be in want of a cook, and they soon feel the truth of the old saying —" God sends food, but the devil sends cooks," for it is the greatest difficulty to find a man who knows the difference between soup and porridge, or who has ever heard of the distinction between a slop-basin aud a slop-bucket. Yet in spite of this state of things there are plenty of men about with apparently nothing to do. seem to work one month and rest eleven months. Such is the way with Europeans in this couutry, yet they affectto look with contempt upon Asiatics, who arc really the only working people thoroughly suited to the climate.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 4
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198THE PALMER GOLDFIELD. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 4
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