SA REGISTER Newspaper reported: Another expedition has sailed from Bremen consisting
of six cabin passengers and 268 steerage passengers per the "PATEL",
which went to sea on the 21st of April. (1845)
Among the cabin passengers are the son of a wealthy farmer, the nephew of one
of the first merchants in Hamburg, an experienced chemist, and a Captain in his
Hanoverian Majesty's service, on leave of absence, who is thoroughly conversant
with mining and smelting operations. Among the steerage passengers there are nearly
forty able bodied labourers, miners, and etc, who are ready to engage under him
in these operations.
Among the other emigrants are several possessed of small capitals,
amounting in all to about £3,000 (pounds).
There is also a party of 33 persons, relatives of the inhabitants of the German
village of Klenzig, in South Australia, who have been induced to follow their relatives
to that land of promise.
That colony presented a favourable field for the British labourer, and the extensive
purchases of lands, amounting to upwards of £30,000 (pounds) value, afforded ample
means to convey the labourers who could not afford to pay the expense of their passage,
but one-third of this sum, or nearly so, has been misapplied - repayment is refused
and the consequence is that the boon, which had been provided for our own impoverished, hard-wrought and ill paid labourers, and which seemed actually within their reach,
is withdrawn, and others possess themselves of it.
The present expedition of German emigrants is said to be even superior to the last,
consisting of able-bodied labourers, an equal number orf each sex; a large proportion of adults and youths fit for immediate work; and all of highly respectable moral character.
The following are the summaries of the passengers, exclusive of those in the cabin:
Males - 134 Females - 134 total = 268
Adults
Youths from 14-18 years
Youths under 14 years of age
Total |
156
16
96
268
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The owners of the vessel has taken the labouring emigrants at a very low rate
of passage-money, and trusts to their future industry and success in the colony
for making up the remainder. |
Copy of an article from a Tasmanian Colonial Newspaper, October 1845.
By one of those singular combinations
of circumstances which defy anticipation,
and break through all ordinary rules of probability, the British colony of South Australia is receiving her chief accession
of population from Germany.
About this time last year
the "GEORGE WASHINGTON"
sailed from Bremen for Port Adelaide,
with about 200 emigrants
men, women and children.
They arrived at Port Adelaide
on 12-09-1844 after a pleasant run
of 106 days, and in the course
of a fortnight or three weeks
the labourers had all got employment.
The favourable accounts of the colony previously received from the old German colonists having been confirmed
by the experience and correspondence
of the passengers per the
"GEORGE WASHINGTON" - CLICK HERE
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