THE ' DAILY TIMES ' TRUCULENT !

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 53, 2 May 1874, Page 7

THE ' DAILY TIMES ' TRUCULENT !

In its issue of the 30th, our contemporary says, in reference to the immigrauts from Ireland, by the Asia, "We have it on the very best authority, that of the female immigrants just arrived by the Asia, thirty-three of them were selected from the Queenstowu Reformatory. Immigration is a most necessary thing for the benefit of the Colony, but the importation of certified scum is anything but desirable." We beg to assure our contemporary that there is no Reformatory at all in Queenstown, and that consequently " his best 1 authority " has played him false on this occasion. Then, as to the statement of that roaiing patriot • The Tiperary Advocate,' we are in a position to say that his statement is an exaggeration. Indeed, it appears from Mr. Allan's report that oi)ly 8G single females came from Ireland, and consequently, two hundred of these could not have^come from the Cork workhouse. Such patriots, as the ' Tipperary Advocate' have been, and are, the curse ot the country. But what are we to say of the hideous conduct of the ' Daily Times ? ' For a long time it was impossible to get immigrants from Ireland. At last, when the labour market is well supplied and winter approaches, a couple of hundred from Ireland are landed vii our shores, and the way in which our contemporary greets them is to blast their character by a calumny.