VICTORIA.
EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.
REPORT
OF
THE ACTING IMMIGRATION AGENT
UPON
COLONIAL EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
FOR THE YEA:R
1S64.
LAID UPON THE COUNCIL TABLE BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY,
BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,
ORDERED BY THE COUNCIL TO BE PRINTED,
ZSth :November, 1855.
A.-No. 7.
ti!.! 13utfJorft» :
JOHN FERRES, GOVERNMENT PRIN,TER, MELBOURNE.
REPORT.
--rq.--
IMMIGRATION OFFICE,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
Sm,
.
I do myself the honor to submit for Your Excellency's consideration
the following Report upon Immigration and Emigration for the year 1854.
2. In it are embodied such leading facts and notices as have hitherto
been annually furnished by the Immigration Office, and can be obtained from
the several Returns which are compiled throughout the year.
I have
endeavored to preserve the same order in arranging the materials of the
Report as has been adhered to by my predecessors, with the approval of
your Excellency.
3. Though I was only called upon to conduct the Department
temporarily during the course of the current month, I trust that the efficiency
of the officers permanently engaged in it will enable me to present the
requisite information in a proper shape. I may add that a close adherence in
an Annual Report to one general form presents great facilities for reference.
4. Return No. I. in the Appendix shews that the total importation
of .assisted immigrants in 1854 was-of souls, 16,318: of statute adults,
13,955·5. Compared with previous years the importation stands thus:I
Year~
.Malea.
Felllal'=lli·
Total Soula.
---------
Sbt months of
In
In
In
1851
1852
1853
1854
...
...
......
1082
7762
5236
5456
905
7715
9342
10862
1987
15477
14578
16318
...
19536
28824
48360
-······
Total of 3! years
There has been a remarkable diminution of the mortality, in the course of the
three years during which immigration has been considerable, proving the
great advantages which are derived from the uniformity of superintendence
which is brought about by the Land and Emigration Commissioners in
availing themselves of the numerous detailed Reports which they obtain from
all parts of the realm. The per centage of mortality, the length of voyage,
and the tonnage of the vessels employed, stand thus :Number of
Yeat'.
Sbt months of
In
In
In
Shipt~,
1851
1852
1853
1854
huuGJU.TION,-b,
...
...
•••
.••
I
7
42
44
49
I
Average
Averag•
Tonnage.
Avemge1'8.tel
Rellle.rk1J.
days at Sea. of mortality.
--
------
750
827
t97
919'7
102
105
107
95•6
I
1•86
5•5
3'6
1"47
No vessels placed in Quarantine.
4
"
9
"
"
4
..
.
"
"
"·
A18isted Immigration.
R!lturu No. L
.IV
These figures tend to prove that the employment of vessels of large tonnage,
with one passenger deck, both shortens the voyage and diminishes mortalityfacts which my predecessors have dwelt upon, and which the Returns for 1854
strongly confirm. Of the total deaths in 1854, there were 6 7 infants, 119
children between the ages of l and 14, and only 59 adults, or nearly ·481 per
cent. upon the total number of adults embarked.
The mortality in ships with Government Emigrants, now that the use
of two passenger decks is abandoned, has not reached among the adults the
rate of 1·84 per cent. on the year, as is shewn by the following formula:95·6
365
•481
1·834.
I may point out this result as signally gratifying, when the space and variety
of latitudes to be sailed over are taken into consideration.
I would recommend generally that vessels of from 700 to 900 tons,
with only one passenger deck be still employed, and that 300 be the maximum
of passengers to be carried. ·when ships of larger tonnage are employed, the
additional space is a security for the health of the passengers, and the shipowners are not sufferers, inasmuch as their vessels then carry several hundred
tons of cargo.
5. The number of births on board emigrant ships was 224, of which
109 were males and 115 females.
6. Forty-nine ships have arrived with immigrants at the following
ports:2!) ships,
13
Melbonl'!le
Geelong ...
Portland .••
11
Total 49
8795 souls.
4269
"
3254
"
"
"
••• 16318
"
This distribution I would not propose to adhere to in 1856. A reference to
Return No. XII. will shew how great a proportion of unassisted immigration
finds its way to Melbourne, thereby rendering it less necessary to provide
immigration to that port by means of the public funds. I would recommend
that ships should thus be despatched in 1856, say toMelbonl'!le
Geelong
Portland
Belfast ...
13 ships, averaging about 300 adults, and bringing, say
13
300
"
5
"
"
300
"
"
5
"
"
300
"
Total
36
"
4000 souls.
4000
"
1500
"
1500
"
11000
"
In making the last suggestion, I am adopting the arrangements already
entered into, under your Excellency's sanction, for the construction of a
Depot at Belfast, and the reception of immigrants direct from England at that
port. It is found that the expense of distributing immigrants to- the outports,
added to the original cost of carriage to Port Phillip, far outweighs the
expense of shipping them direct, under charter party, from Europe. As it
may be found impracticable to keep the proportion of families in all cases
under 10 to 100 single women, it should be so managed, if possible, that
ships containing the larger number of families may be despatched to Portland
and Belfast, rather than to Melbourne or Geelong-single women finding
homes more rapidly at the latter towns. The ships should be despatched to
Portland and Belfast, so as to arrive alternately, if possible, at intervals,
during the summer months. 'Vhenever circumstances permit the proper
construction of wharves, &c., at Welshpool, Gipps' Land, where there is
draught of water for large vessels, it would, in my opinion, be advisable to
send immigrants direct from England to that important district.
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7. The number of female (assisted) immigrants greatly exceeds that
of the males. The excess is shewn by the following Table.
Male$.
YeB.T.
Femo.lea.
i
Total.
I
Six months of
In
In
In
1851
1852
1853
1854
...
1082
7762
5236
5456
...
...
...
905
7715
9342
10862
i
1987
15477
14578
16318
I
.Excess-
·Females.
...
...
Exce68-
Final result
in favour of
Malt•t~:.
Feroo.Iea,
177
47
...
4106
5406
...
i
Total
...
...
19536
i
28824
I
48360
9512
224
9288
This desirable result, to attain which the efforts of the Commissioners in
England, as well as of the Colony itself, have been uniformly directed since
the attraction of a large voluntary immigration of adult males to our shores,
has been brought about, not only by the immigration of single females, but
by care in selecting families in which the boys have been fewer in number
than the girls.
While the excess of adult females, as compared with adult males,
was, in 1854, 4461, a careful selection of families, in the manner alluded
to, has augmented the difference to 5406, shewing an addition by this means
of 945 souls, or rather more than 21 per cent. upon the excess of adult females.
I would suggest that the proportion of females might be still further
augmented, with benefit to the Colony, in the following manner.
It is found necessary for the maintenance of proper moral discipline to
have a certain numlJer of immigrant families in each ship which brings single
women. This proportion should not, so far as past experience can guide, be
less than 10 families to 100 single women.
The married men act as
constables and assistants throughout the voyage in keeping order.
Inasmuch as the characters of these people are unknown, more are
shipped than would really be necessary for the performance of the work they
have to do. When one man is disrated, there must be others on board from
whom to make selection of a substitute. If, as much as possible, pensioners
of good character were given a preference for assisted passages, the number of
men to be introduced at the cost of the Colony would be diminished, and the
habits of discipline of the men on board would be found most useful. In this
manner the number of families might safely be diminished from 10 in the 100
to 8 in the 100 single women.
8. Under such arrangements I think that the total assisted immigration might well be limited during 1856 to 11,000 or 12,000 persons, which
would form a charge of about £220,000 or £240,000 on the year, or less if
the contract price per head should materially be decreased. Moreover,
these arrangements would secure a lasting provision for such relatives of
wounded soldiers or sailors as might wish to immigrate, and would be in the
shape of a public though not a charitable contribution from the Colony for
the general objects of the Patriotic .Fund.
.
As the proportion of females to males in Great Britain has m·aintained an increasing ratio throughout the last half century (the excess in
1851 being 349,871 ), all the efforts which may be made to equalize the sexes
in Victoria will be the means of conferring mutual benefits on the Mother
Country and the Colony.
9. The successive reports made by the Immigration Board throughout
the year 1854 have shewn that the characters of the generality of the Surgeons Superintendent have well fitted them for the arduous duties for which
they have been selected. The value of the services which these gentlemen
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perform, when they succeed throughout a long voyage in maintaining
discipline, enforcin~ cleanliness, preserving health, and not unfrequently in
obtaining the affectiOnate esteem of the numerous passengers committed to
their care, can hardly be over-rated, and I cordially join in the recommendation made by the Immigration Agent in his report for the year 185·3, that,
subject to the usual guards as to efficiency of service, there be placed at
the disposal of each Surgeon Superintendent the full amount of his passage
money to the 'C nited Kingdom, if he return thither without delay. For
remarkably successful voyages, the scale of remuneration might well be
further increased.
10. The cost to the Colony of each immigrant was greater in 1854
than in any previous year, as is shewn by the following Table of the contract
price and actual cost in each year, the difference between these two rates
being caused by the varying numbers of emigrants in large and small ships:t
Year,.
Contraet Price.
I
Act\U\l Coat.
!
In 1851
In 1852
In 1853
In 1854
...
...
...... .........
...
£
s. d.
10 5
14 17
17 9
20 6
6
4
9
6
£
10
14
17
s. d.
8
4!
7 7
5
20 8
7
0
The contract price on the year has averaged higher at Geelong and
J>ortland than at :Melbourne by £1 lls. ld.; an amount not equal to the
usual cost of t:t:anshipment from one port to another after arrivaL
As a necessary consequence of the diminished mortality, the average
amount (when distributed on the arrivals throughout the year) of half
passage money paid upon emigrants who died on the voyage has fallen in
the following manner:s. d.
1851
1852
1853
1854
1
5
0~
2
3
6
1
8
per Statute Adult,
..
"
The average amount of gratuities to surgeons, officers, constables,
and others, was £1 1s. per statute adult on the arrivals. The total cost,
including maintenance for fourteen days after arrival was £21 10s. 8d., and
the average passage money paid being £20 8s., it is shown that the extra
cost of each immigrant was only £1 28. 8d. I am peTI!uaded that this will
be found to be a creditable result, on comparison with other Tables; and, in
passing, I may remark that the cost to the neighbouring Colony, New South
'Vales, was, during the same period-Contract price £20 19s. 1d.; total cost
charged, inclusive of all expenses, £22 5s. 7!d.
The cost per statute adult during the present year (1855) has fallen
considerably, the contract price up to the 30th June having averaged less than
£18. The total of souls imported as compared with the statute adults is as
follows:Half-year of 1851
In 1852
In 1853
In 1854
1987 souls,
15477
..
14578
..
"
16318
17 50 Statute Adults,
12590
12242
13955•5
..
"
(two children between 1 and 14 years of age being reckoned as one statute
adult). There were, therefore, 1,365·5 more statute adults introduced in 1854
than in any previous year.
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11. Returns Nos. II. and III. shew the sex and condition of the
assisted immigrants in 1854. They are as follows :Country.
Males.
Pemales.
Totlll.
Returns Nos.
n.
and
IIL
•
From England and Wales { Married 1299 }
Single
720
and Islands
...
From Scotland
From Ireland
...
...
...
... ...
20111
{:Maried 1292}
Single 1924
3216
5235
1759
{Married 918}
Single 1815
2733
4492
886} 1678
792 •
{ Married 885 }
Single 4028
4913
6591
...
10862
16318
{Married 922}
Single
837
{Married
Single
--
!
Totals
...
...
...
~..
!
i
5456
...
...
Finding that the Immigration Agent expressed in 1854 his regret that
selections should have been made so largely from the Irish Unions, in the
cases of single women, and knowing that as a rule it has been deemed no
less wise than just, bot'Q. to the Parent Country and to the Colony, to select
immigrants in numbers bearing a due proportion to the several portions of
the United Kingdom, viz., England, Scotland, and Ireland, I am constrained
to observe that no such just proportion is discernible in the foregoing Tables'
but I reserve a detailed investigation of the matter for a subsequent portion
of my Report.
12. Return No. IV. shews the religjous persuasions of the immigrants,
which may be classed as follows :Denomination.
Roman Catholics
Church of England
Presbyterians
Wesleyans
Other Protestants
...
...
Totals ...
...
...
...
......
....
ll!aJOa.
Females.
1549
1750
1792
189
176
4564
2925
2771
329
273
6113
4675
4563
518
.449
5456
10862
16318
ToW.
13. The results of this Return ( shewing the occupation of the
assisted immigrants) are as follows : - .
Oecnpation.
Males.
.Agricultural Laborers . . .
.. •
•..
...
•..
•••
Shepherds
...
...
...
...
...
...
•..
Domestic Servants
•••
.. •
...
.. •
...
.. .
Mechanics (Building) •..
...
...
.. •
.. •
...
Other Mechanics
...
...
•••
...
...
•..
Tradespeople (in articles of food)
•••
...
...
.. .
,
(in articles of clothing)
...
...
.. .
Married Women, Children under 14, and others not ineluded
2254
92
10
1144
240
18
32
1666
Totals
5456
Return No. v.
Feme.ln,
......
4776
......
7
139
5940
10862
14. In Returns VI., VII., VTII., will be found the state of education of
the immigrants from England, Ireland, and Scotland, viewed with regard to
their religious persuasions, and the attainments of all so far as reading and
writing are concerned -the immigrants for each country being divided for
educational purposes into five classes as to their ages, ex~lusive of children
under the age of one year. The per centage of immigrants able to read and
hm:IGBA.TIQ:!l',-(,
Return No, IV.
Returns Nos. VI.,
VII., and VIII.
vili
write is slightly less than in the previous year, when it was remarked that
"the proportion of educated persons was much above former averages."
The subject of education being one to which my attention has been
for some time strongly drawn, I shall here present a closer analysis of the
returns compiled in the Immigration Department than has hitherto been
given; a procedure for which I hope I shall stand excused, when the intimate connection of ignorance with crime is brought to recollection. There
wereIN 1853.
IN 1854.
Education.
Malea.
Femalea.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Immigrants who could read and write
...
read only
"
"
neither read nor write
...
2894
653
1689
4947
1745
2650
7841
2398
4339
3356
614
1486
5274
2310
3278
8630
2924
4764
...
5236
9342
14578
5456
10862
16318
...
..
"
...
Totals
As displayed by the immigrants from each country, education stands
thus:Cou.trr.
Read cmd Write.
R-ead onlr.
Neither Read nor Write.
To<&!.
England and Wales and
Islands •••
{Males 1375} 3447
Females 2072
{Males
219} 694
Females 475
{Males
425} 1094
Females 669
5235
Scotland
{Males 1144} 2840
Females 1696
{Males
165}
Females 393 558
450
{Males
Females 644 } 1094
4492
{ Males
837 } 2343
Females 1506
{ Males
230}
Females 1442 1672
{Males
611}
Females 1965 2576
6591
Ireland
... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
··--
... ...
Totals ...
...
8630
...
...
2924
...
...
4764
16318
The members of each religious denomination were educated as
follows:Read ""d
wma.
Read only.
Neither~
Tolol.
......
3068
2075
2891
324
282
612
1559
579
96
78
1005
2479
1093
98
89
4675
6113
4563
518
449
...
8630
2924
4764
16318
Denomine.tioo.
Church of England
Jroman Catholic
Presbyterian ...
Wesleyan
...
Other Protestants
Totals
...
...
...
Of the total immigration the per centage of arrivals from each country,
and the per centage of education amongst those arrivals stand thus :-
p:-nc;.::r
Cou.trT·
...
Per Centage of Edncatior:t amongst the Immigrant.t.
arriving from each Country~
!
lmmigmtlon.
England and Wales and Islands
Scotland...
...
•••
...
Ireland
...
I
...
...
......
...
'321
'275
'404
Read .,.d
Write.
Read only.
'658
'632
•356
•133
•124
•254
Neither Rud.
Total
Jnll'Write.
unable to Read
and WJite.
'209
•244
'390
•342
'368
•644
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Of the total immigration the percentage of arrivals of members of the
several religious denominations, and the per centage of the different degrees
of education are thus shewn : -
I
PerCentage of Edue&tion amongst the Immigrant& of each
Denomination.
Per Centoge
I
on Total
Immigration.
~ligio~
Read and
Write.
Rel.\d only.
Neith.. R<-ad
nor Write.
Church of England
Presbyterians
Wesleyans
Other Protestants
Roman Catholics
...
...
...
......... ......
... ...
... ...
......
...
...
...
•286
'280
'032
'027
•375
•655
'634
"626
'629
'339
'130
'127
•185
•173
•255
'215
•239
'189
•198
•406
Toto!
uu.ble to :Read
andW:rite.
.
1
"345
•366
•374
•371
'661
Now as England, with a population of 18,070,735 in 1851, has furnished
actually ·321 per cent. of immigrants, or less than one-third of the total
immigration; as Scotland, with a population of 2,288,742 in 1851, has
furnished ·27 5 per cent., or more than one-fourth ; and as Ireland, with
a population of 6,553,178 in 1851, has furnished ·404 per cent., or about twofifths ; and as the due proportions were,From England
From Scotland
From Ireland
•••
...
... '657 or nearly two-thirds ;
... '105 or about one-tenth;
.. • ·238 or less than a fourth ;
it follows that England has furnished less than half of the immigrants she
should ; that Scotland has furnished mo~;e than twice as many as she should;
and that Ireland has furnished two-thirds more than she should.
15. In speaking of education, I shall now designate as ignorant those
who cannot read and write. Practically, those who cannot write, can read
to little purpose ; and my assumption is, in the main, a just one. The
difference in education of immigrants from England and Scotland being only
·016 per cent. in favor of England, I shall dismiss it as a matter of excess
of numbers only, for subsequent remark; but the condition of the Irish
immigrants cannot be so considered. Ireland has furnished two-thirds more
immigrants than she should; and of those she has furnished, two-thirds cannot
read and write. It would be unnatural for any one who has interested
himself in the education of the people to pass over so glaring a fact. If
ignorant persons come voluntarily to the Colony, I presume no word would be
raised against their coming ; but it is preposterous to suppose that it can be
beneficial to pay £141,926 for the importation of 6591 souls from Ireland,
two-thirds of whom have not the intelligence guaranteed by the a.bility to
read and write. In the above Tables it is shewn that the number of members
of the Church of England is nearly identical with the num her of immigrants
from England; the number of Presbyterians nearly identical "\"\'ith the number
of immigrants from Scotland ; and the number of Roman Catholics nearly
identical with the number of immigrants from Ireland ; and that the
distribution of ignorance is coincident as to religion and as to country. But,
as I furnish these facts merely for information, I shall not remark upon them.
It may be mentioned that the amount of ignorance is slightly
exaggerated, so far as regards the inclusion of children too young to read and
write; but as I have no means of ascertaining the exact number of children so
circumstanced, and as the exaggeration bears equally against immigrants from
each country, the aggregate figures are taken, attention being called to their use.
I by no means wish to assert that Ireland cannot supply an immigration
as intelligent as that which comes from England and Scotland. If she can
do so, the Colony has greater reason to complain that improper selection has
been made. If she cannot, there are evident grounds for insisting that her
due proportion, on the whole, be not exceeded. Moreover, it is unfair to
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Ireland herself that she should be judged by a class or immigrants unfairly
derived from her. The indirect cost of objectionable immigrants is shewn in
many ways, amongst which I may mention, as one instance, the fact that they
remain a long time a charge, in the Dep6t, after arrival. As illustrations,
I will take two vessels which arrived during the present and preceding
months-the Hotspur and the Samarang. The Immigration Board reported
on each ship within two days of its arrival. Their report was, that the
immigrants by the Hotspur were, in their opinion, ill-selected and badly
suited to the Colony; that those by the Samarang were well-selected and
would probably be found a valuable addition to the population. The
following Table shews how far these several statements have been borne
out by subsequent facts : Number of81ngle Females.
Number remaining in Dep!St
14 days after a.rriva.l.
Country.
I/l.}$¥pur
arrived
2bth Ju.ne.
Irish
.
Htlltpt.w.
a:rrivecl
St:mt.arang.
... ...
...
...
... ... ...
...
67
269
...
...
4
...
139
.....8.
...
279
67
143
8
English
Scot~h
&marang
8th July.
Totals
10
In some cases, where a female immigrant has no friends in the Colony able or
willing to maintain her, and no employer relieves the public of the charge of
supporting her, an expense of nearly £10, in addition to the cost of importation, is thrown upon the public funds-an expense which it is impossible to
escape, without doing what no person would advocate, viz., turning the
immigrant into the streets. Nevertheless, these facts shew how necessary it
is tO insist that care be taken in selecting immigrants in the first place.*
Retm·n No. IX.
16. Return No. IX. shews the number of children under 14 years of
age arriving in the year 1854. The average in each family was 1·021considerably less than in the preceding year. The existing limitations to
carrying no more than three children under 10 years, or two under 7, are of
course one cause of this result; and it is reasonable to suppose that these
limitations, together with the abandonment of the use of ships with two
passenger decks, have tended to lower the rate of mortality in the manner
already pointed out.
Return No. X.
17. Return No. X. gives the periods of engagements entered into by
immigrants, and the average rate of wages obtained. The following is a
comparative statement with previous years:-
J
Muried Couples.
Period.
£
October,
In
In
In
1851, to May, 1852 ...
1852 • ...
...
...
1853
1854 ...
...
...... ..... .
..
d.
53 0 0
63 0 0
69 17 ll
86 5 10
Single 'Men.
£
38
41
54
39
..
0
0
11
12
d.
0
0
0
9
Single Women.
£
20
21
23
24
..
0
10
1
18
d.
0
0
9
10
Wages, therefore, in 1854, rose as compared with previous years in the
cases of families and single women, and sank with respect to single men.
"'In estimating the immigration of any given year it must be borne in mind that there must necessarily be a
discrepancy between the figures shewn in England and those shewn in the Colony. The immigrants sailing in
1854 are credited to that year in England. Those only who arrive in 1854 are credited to that year in the Colony.
It wonld be impossible to reconcile the two accounts, and it is best therefore to keep the arrivals of the year, and
those only, to its credit,
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Allowance must be made in this matter, however, for the small number of
single men who hired at all. Out of 704, only 63 hired for terms above
six n;onths, and 395 either did not hire at 'all, or hired with their own relations.
More than half the married couples and about one-fourth of the single
women left the Dep6t without hiring. The wages which ruled in 1854-£86 5s. lOd. average, with rations, for families, and £24 18s. 10d. average,
with rations, for single women-could not fail, when known, to be a. source
of attraction to those whose means enable them to emigrate from other
countries; and part of the difficulties now encountered in the Colony by
persons in weak health, or encumbered with families, may fairly be ascribed
to the want of forethought exhibited in some cases by immigmnts who
expected to find employers waiting on our wharves and soliciting laborers.
One weakly man, with a family, now relieved by this department as destitute,
assured me that such expectations induced him to abandon a comfortable
place in Dublin which he had held twelve years.
Agricultural laborers are still in demand in almost every part of the
Colony, and the wages of domestic servants have not, up to the present time,
undergone much diminution. At the same time it is not to be doubted, and
it might have been anticipated by those who watch these subjects closely,
that the high rate of mechanics' wages, and the large numbers who immigrated to compete for them, have produced that sort of dulness which is
inseparable from the state of any market in which, the demand having a
limit, a supply is forced upon it without accurate calculations as to the point
of limitation. It is fortunate that the Gold Fields of the Colony afford a
safety-valve for disappointed laborers of all kinds who are able and willing
to work. At the same time it is to be observed, that the rates of wages paid
to journeymen mechanics are in no case less than !Os. per diem.
1g. Return No. XI. shews the nominations which have been made for
and free passages. They shew an increase in 1854 as compared with
prevwus years.
assis~d
I Nomination
I
Year..
From 1st January to 31st December, 1852
1853
"
"
1854
"
"
8ouls.
......
...
Amount remitted.
£
..
150!) 0
4135 0
5972 10
208
549
850
The revised regulations which came into operation in June, 18.53, and
which were held in approval by those who have conducted this department,
afforded, no doubt, some facilities; and I venture to express my hope that some
further changes, which I shall submit in this Report, with the object of simplifying the arrangements to be made by nominators, may meet the approval
of your Excellency, and may be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government.
19. Before stating in general terms the conclusion to which the
foregoing statistics lead, I may mention that, up to the present time (31st
July), the assisted immigrants arriving in 1855 number 7306 souls, thus
distributed :'
Shipa.
Deat.J.uation.
... ...
...... ...... ...... .........
Melbourne .••
Geelong
Portla.nd
-----~-.~-~·~--
Totals
hf:anGRATION.-d'.
...
...
8
9
6
Soul1.
2499
2731
2076
-23
7306
Return No. XI.
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20. The Immigration Agent reported, in 1854, that many of the
immigrants who had arrived in the early part of the year were of an inferior
class; and for the remainder of the year the same objection may be put
forward. More especially as regards the Irish, the selections were often
ill-made; and it can be no matter of surprise that an influx of a large number
of persons badly adapted to the stirring requirements of the Colony should
have temporarily assisted to cloy the labor markets of Melbourne and
Geelong, and make matters appear much worse than they are. Ship after
ship reported upon by the Immigration Board in 1854 brought unmistakeable proofs that its freight was such as the friends of the Colony would
be unwilling to welcome at the cost for which it was obtained. At the
hazard of not being able to procure a sufficiency of immigrants to exhaust
the appropriated moiety of the Land :Fund, I think it should be insisted
upon by the Colony that the immigration from each portion of the United
Kingdom should bear due proportion to the Census Returns of each. This
precaution would prevent the inundation of the Colony with any objectionable elements which peculiar circumstances, affecting either England,
Scotland, or Ireland, might tend to cast upon our shores, not at the expense
of the corners themselves, but of the country on which they are to become a
burden. The immigration during 1855 has been of a better character than
that of 1854, on which I have to report.
21. The machinery for bringing nominated immigrants should, I
think, be simplified, and the amount of remittances by this means increased.
It is to be regretted that this species of immigration has lately sustained a
temporary check. For its enlargement I would propose the following
modifications.
At present, a nominator applying to the Immigration Office obtains
three forms, two of which, with all requisite signatures, he has to leave in
charge of the Government. After lapse of a month, he has to call for a
certificate in duplicate; and in the course of his proceedings he has to
attend at the several offices of the Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer,
and the Immigration Agent; so that, supposing no avoidable delay occur,
considerable trouble or interference with private business must be
encountered, and very many documents must be signed and countersigned.
At present there are three application forms, two certificates, triplicate
monthly returns, and an entry in the certificate book required. I propose to
retain the entry in the certificate book, the two certificates, and the triplicate
monthly returns, and to do away with the delay which applicants have to
encounter under present regulations, which require attendance at no less
than three different offices. If a book were kept at the Immigration Office
from which duplicate certificates should be given, the butts being preserved
for record, and if, on payment of his money, a nominator could at once
possess himself of these certificates and remit them to his friends, the duplicate being available only on proof of loss of the first copy, and if emigrants
so nominated have preference with the Land and Emigration Commissioners
for selection on presentation of their certificates, it appears to me that a
large and a most healthy immigration might be looked for. In favor of
nominated passages, some of the restrictions as to the occupation of parents
or the number of children might also be relaxed.
The Land and Emigration Commissioners state in their Reports that
not less than
In 1852
In 1853
£1404000
£1439000
are known to have been remitted from America to Ireland alone, in aid of the
passage-money of friends of the remitters ; and there are, doubtless, large
sums similarly devoted, but unknown to the Commissioners. To give an
impetus to immigration of this nature seems to me the proper function of the
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Immigration Department, except with regard to all wholesome efforts, having
as an object the equalization of the sexes in the Census, and the consequent
elevation of the moral tone and social comfort of the community. These two
directions afford ample field.
There is comparatively little temptation for parents or others to
encounter the trouble and expense of nominating relations, when these same
relations, without any voluntary payment, may possibly obtain a free passage;
and by paying the whole cost for immigrants who display neither ability nor
readiness to help themselves, and only a portion for immigrants who do so,
it is clear that the Colony pays highest for the elements of which it has least
need. The principle of nomination which I advocate applies, of course, to
single women as well as to . other persons. Considering the worthless
character of many single women who are now sent wholly at the cost of the
Colony, it may be looked upon as most desirable to enhance the numbers of
those whose relatives or friends are anxious to contribute to their passage
and welcome them on landing.
. It is true that personation might occur; so it does at present, and the
Colony suffers more pecuniarily from such deception now than it would in
cases where .~ portion only of the passage money would be a charge upon its
Revenues.
22. It may be argued that such immigration might be conducted by
private enterprise; but it is easy to prove that it would not so be conducted
with equivalent protection to the immigrant. Vast as is the emigration
from Great Britain and Ireland to the United States, and gi·eat as has
been the competition of shipowners and charterers in the passenger trade, it
is still a subject on which legislation is found requisite, in order, in the
language of the Legislature of New York, to " enact such laws as may be
necessary to secure the health of passengers in emigrant vessels."-(Minutes
of the New York Senate, 28th .January, 1854.) No protection can be more
complete than the power of withholding a portion of the contract priceand this is a power, the:> exercise of which, though reposed without hesitation
in the Government, would be scarcely confided to private discretion.
Moreover, the experience of a long series of years, and the acceptance
of every modification proved to be advantageous in regulations for voyages,
gradually bring the public supervision to uniformity, excellence and cheapness which no private means could accomplish with the same well-defined
protection to passengers. No assisted immigrant leaves his ship, nor are
contract prices paid in full, till every complaint is heard which is sought to
be made. Similarity and certainty of punishments for infi·action of passenger
laws are justly dwelt upon by the Select Committee of the House of Commons
(see 2nd Report on Emigrant Ships, ordered to he printed July, 1854), as a
matter of the greatest importance.
It is not to be doubted that the Land and Emigration Commissioners
will adopt such improvements in regulations as to space, diet, medical
comforts, enforcement of cleanliness, number of adults as well as of children
to be embarked in one vessel, general sea-worthiness of vessels, character of
Surgeons Superintendent, and officers, &c., as experience may shew to be
advisable.
23. I have alluded to the effect which the great influx of immigrants
has had in creating what some call a panic, some a reality, as to existing
destitution. It is not my province here to judge between conflicting statements, but it is my duty to submit certain facts. Estimating the population
of the Colony at 273,792 on 31st December, 1854, it appears that the excess
of arrivals during 1854, after deducting departures of the year, was 48,429,
or about one-sL··~th of the community on 31st December, 1854. I find that
the total immigration to the Colony of New South Wales (see Report of
.
XIV
Immigration Agent, 1854, N.S. Wales) during the six years, 1849-1854
inclusive, was 49,571, or about the same number. Yet, with so much more
pressure on the labor market here, wages have maintained, in 1854, the
averages above set down, and may now be quoted asMarried Couple&.
£53
6s.
Single Men.
Od.
... •
Single Women.
£33 15s. 6d.
£22
4s.
6d.
I cannot better exemplify the directness of pressure which has almost
uniformily singled out Victoria as the Port of Australia to which to emigrate,
than by stating that the total immigration to New South Wales, a Colony in
which Gold Fields exist, has not lately reached the height it attained in 1842.
In 1853 it was 13767
In 1842 it was 13786.
It is well known that the pressure in 1842 of 13,786 persons, about one·
eleventh of the population, caused unexampled distress in New South \Vales ;
and seeing that, notwithstanding an immigration which, during 1851, 1852, and
1853had raised the population of Victoria from 77,000 to upwards of200,000,
more than one-fifth of that amount was poured in upon it in 1854, it may
well be said that in place of wonder at the existence of casual distress,
admiration must rather be awakened at the capacity of the Colony to provide
means for the reception, and labor for the employment of so many thousands.
It will be seen in Return XII. that 95 per cent. of the arrivals of unassisted
passengers in 1854 have made :Melbourne the point of debarkation.
24. The male population is still considerably in excess of the female.
Though the difficulties under which the Census was taken in 1854 may
render it not trustworthy as to the aggregate, it is probably correct enough
for purposes of a comparison, in which its deficiencies will, to a certain
extent, balance one another. By it there were stated to be in the Colony, on
the 26th April, 1854Males.
Females.
I
I
Total.
... ... ... ...
155898
80900
The Balance of Unassisted Immigration in}
favor of the Colony, after tak;ng the Census,
was, during 1854, deducting departures ...
17401
6367
23768
The amount of Assisted Immigration which }
arrived after taking the Census in 1854, was
3772
6608
10380
On 26th April, 1854
1
236798
--~~
Total on 31st December, 1854 ...
...
177071
I
93875
270946
shewing an excess of 83,196 males on the 31st December, 1854.
This result, supplemented as it is by large overland arrivals, is one
which cannot but be looked upon as deserving the efforts of statesmen to
counteract by all legitimate means, and it is proper to shew that an ameliorating
tendency has been brought about by the labors of the Emigration Commissioners on behalf of the Colony. The unassisted immigration has beenYee.r..
Males~
During half-year ending 31st December, 1851
During 1852 ...
During 1853 ...
During 1854...
...... ...... ......
... ... ...
Totals
... ... .. .
!
Females.
ToW.
7!il2
67110
60796
51913
1517
12077
16938
15179
9029
79187
77734
67092
18~331
45711
233042
XV
shewing a balance of 141,620 males in excess of females. Deducting from
these numbers 94,825 males and 14,637,.. females who left the Colony from
1st July, 1851, to 31st December, 1854, inclusive, there remains a balance
of 61,432 males in excess of females. This excess has been thus corrected
by the assisted immigration.
y..,,
Matea.
......
......
Half-year 1851
In 1852
In 1853
In 1854
...
......
...
1082
7762
5236
5456
905
7715
9342
10862
1987
15477
14578
16318
... ...
19536
28824
48360
...
Totals
...
......
Tolel.
Female..
shewing an aggregate excess of females of 9286 souls during three years
and a half, and diminishing the general excess to 52,416 males on the 31st
December, 1854; the whole of this correction having been effected during
1853 and 1854.
25. The cost of maintenance in Dep&t during 1854, distributing the
total amount throughout the numbers maintained, was-
...... ...... ......
... ... ...
'
In Melbourne
Geelong
Portland
18M.
1!!5ll.
Dep&t.
..
3
3
6
..
d.
d.
2 5
211
8
3
0
4
9t
The contract price for maintenance being in 1854s. d.
1 3
1 8
1 10
Melbourne
Geelong •.•
Portland ...
The present contract price (July, 1855) being ats. d.
011l
1 ll
1 9
Melbourne
Geelong ...
Portland ...
26. Return XII. shews the amount of unassisted immigration during
the year, with the countries from which it is derived. Classified for general
purposes, the information stated comparatively with previous years is as
follows:1851.
Country.
I
18'11.
...... ......
... ... ...
1778
7199
52
29286
48253
1648
...
9029
79187
From the United Kingdom
From Australian Colonies
From Foreign Ports
Totals
...
i
1
181511.
I
IBM.
I
Return No. XIL
.
Total,
33032
35834
8868
31895
26900
8297
95991
118186
18865
77734
67092
233042
The departures being in the aggregate of those years 110,462, it appears
that the final balance, 122,580, indicates a great power of absorption on
the part of the Colony. It would be impossible to ascertain how great a
proportion of the emigrants from the Colony consists of disappointed or of
fortunate persons; but the great aggregate balance of immigration shews
• For this calculation I have to assume that, out of a total elnigration in 1851 (July to December) of 2000
persons, reported by tl!e Immigration .Agent, the sexes were divided in tl!e proportion actually found to exil' in 1852.
honGR.A.TION.-e.
Uf~~!s•i.l~
Imrm!fTatwn.
Return No. XIIL
xvi
that the result of all reports, whether derived from official sources, the daily
press, or from returning adventurers, is a nett annual addition to our population, averaging an annual rate of 37,000 unassisted immigrants during the
four years July 1st, 1851, to July 1st, 1855.*
The rate of unassisted immigration during the current year has
averaged 6566 per month. The rate of emigration during the same period
has been 2431; shewing that the balance remaining amounts to the rate of
49,620 per annum.
27. Amongst one of the most gratifying indications of the current
into which labor has lately been directed, I may mention that the importation
of agricultural implements has undergone the following change :1851
1852
1853
1854,
. ••
£552 value
...
561
4027
"
"
••• 30089
"
and, at the Port of Melbourne alone, for six months of 1855, £10,750.
Return No. XIV.
Return No. XV.
Return No. XVI.
28. The penalties imposed by the Imperial Act, 1852, and the Local
Act of Council 16 Victoria, No. 17, have been enforced in many cases, as is
shewn by Return No. XIV. of prosecutions in 1854. The fines imposed
during the year 1854, and the half-year of 1855, ending June 30th, being
£819 3s. and £5026 3s. respectively.
The Commissioners have found reason to notice with satisfaction in a
former year that prosecutions have been rigorously instituted at this port,
tending to indemnify passengers for ill-treatment experienced at sea.
There can be no doubt that a reputation for local watchfulness in this
respect will conduce to the good regulation of ships and the comfort of
passengers bound hither. It is to be hoped that the attention of the
Governments of England and America to this subject will bring about such
enactments as will, if properly enforced, afford ample protection to
immigrants. I have, in another part of this Report, noticed the fact that
a Select Committee of the House of Commons has recommended united
action in the matter. I would venture to suggest that the attention of
the Commissioners might be called to the expediency of forwarding early
information to the Colony on this subj'ect.
29. The Passengers' Rate Fund, during the year 1854, amounted to
£15,567 7s. 6d. Return No. XV. shews how large a proportion of this sum
has been collected at the Port of Melbourne. By converting the total
arrivals, as shewn in Return XII., from 67,092 souls to 62,269·5 statute adults,
it will be seen that the Return furnishes a fair check upon the amount
collected.
30. A considerable number of cases of distress have been relieved at
the expense of this fund, under the agency of this department. They
consist principally of instances in which, during the absence or sickness of
husbands, mothers have been unable to support their families, or in which
sickness has disabled the applicants from working. The number received
into the Depot during lti54 was 106 souls.
Up to the present tin1e (31st July) 63 persons have received aid.
The permission of your Excellency for the use of a certain sum per month,
by the head of this department, has been the means of affording prompt
relief in some distressing cases, of which the following may serve as examples
not uninteresting.
• The balance of immigration from the neighbouring colonies, New Sooth Wales, Van Diemen's Land,
South .Austr.Uia, and New Zealand, after deducting the return emigration from July, 1851, to December,
18541 Will! 2!)197f,
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A man remitted money for part payment of the passage of his wife and
four children from the Mauritius; the vessel arrived safely, and the woman
landed to seek her husband. Hearing that he was in service some miles from
town, she proceeded in search of him, and fell ill; meantime, the vessel being
about to sail, and the Captain having no alternative but to land the four
children or take them away, they were received into the Depot. Through the
agency of the police the mother has been found, and permitted to join her
children, and the father having been advertised in the Government Gazette,
will, it is hoped, ere long, be restored to his family, In another case a
woman (whose husband is supposed to have deserted her), with the aid of a
small pecuniary allowance per week, supports her mother and three of her
own children.
31. It is proper to mention, that it is proposed to expend a portion of
the Immigrants' Rate Fund in facilitating the journeying of immigrants to
the interior, on the route from Melbourne to Castlemaine. Your Excellency
has acceded to propositions made by Mrs. Chisholm, whose exertions are so
well known and appreciated as to need no comment from me, to the effect
that the sums requisite for constructing plain substantial Shelter Sheds, or
protection posts, at ten stations between Melbourne and Castlemaine, shall
be defrayed out of the Immigrants' Rate Fund, the total cost being limited
to £3800, and the society to be managed by Mrs. Chisholm and her friends,
guaranteeing to take charge of at once, and to maintain the Shelter Sheds
in working order, so as to afford decent and economical accommodation to
travellers. Arrangements for these objects are now in course.
32. On the subject of promoting an immigration on the principle of
loans to intending immigrants, the experience of New South Wales seems
by no means encouraging. Under an Act of the Legislature of that Colony
in 1852, means were taken to provide immigration of a partially selfsupporting character- immigrants assisted under its terms engaging to
defray the whole or a fixed proportion of the cost of passage out of their
earnings in the Colony.
The Land and Emigration Commissioners did not receive instructions
concerning the Act early enough in 1853 to enable them to despatch any
considerable number of emigrants in that year. In l854 the experiment
was tried, and the result has been, as reported by the Immigration Agent for
that Colony, that it cannot be carried out beneficially either to the immigrant or to the Colony, and that the Act must, ere long, become a dead
letter. So averse were employers to engage servants under the bond of the
Act, and so little were immigrants inclined to respect those bonds, that, as
regards female immigration, tl1e Act was in a short time suspended, with the
hope of clearing the Government Depots and inducing a more useful class of
immigration.
It appears to me that it cannot be expected that a large number of
"promises to pay" can be satisfactorily enforced against the immigrants
themselves or their employers. Even if a man sign a Bond, with the intention
of redeeming his pledge (which is an assumption not to be relied upon in
business transactions), the numerous temptations of high wages, unfettered
by conditions, and the palpable absurdity of putting the community into
Court to sue fot· balance of passage money against every recalcitrant immigrant, shew that the defects of the system are not profitably to be evaded by
the Colony.
A system of Land Orders, issued on arrival of an immigrant, if the
Legislature of this Colony should incline hereafter to favor it, would produce
a very different result.
33. Mrs. Chisholm has lately published a proposition, by means of
XVlll
which, on payment of money in the Colony, tickets available in payment of
passage to the Colony would be issued, and the holder of tickets would be
able to use them in purchasing land in the Colony.
After much consideration, but without claiming to speak in any way
with authority on this point, I cannot but think that the tickets suggested
would become sources of speculative traffic rather than the means of introducing the class of immigrants required in the Colony ; and I apprehend that
it is well to avoid the creation of a traffic, in the United Kingdom, with
securities, the value of which, under certain circumstances, might be quoted
abroad to the discredit of the Colony.
34. The present remittance system, if modified so as to give every
facility to a nominator, would afford, in my opinion, more convenience to
those persons who desire to contribute towards the passage money of their
friends in Great Britain and Ireland, inasmuch as, if circumstances occur to
prevent their friends from coming, the deposit money is returned to the
applicant. If immigrants, being required to pay the whole or a considerable
proportion of their passage money, were to receive from an agent for the
Colony a remission of one quarter (or some other less portion) of the sum
paid by them in the shape of Orders (bearing no interest) available for
purchase of land* from the Government, on countersignature by a proper
authority in this Colony, it appears to me that several important advantages
would be gained. Immigrants likely to remain in the Colony would be
introduced; any pecuniary assistance required by immigrants in payment of
passages would be obtained by private contract between individuals, and thus
the community would not be placed in the invidious position of suing in a
Court of Justice.
There is no doubt a possibility that there might be speculation with
such Orders ; but it does not appear that such speculation could injuriously
affect the Colony.
A monied person might indeed exact more than the
proportion justly payable by the immigrant, and he would pocket the
difference : but the Colony would part "'ith no land by means of these
Orders, except in proportion to immigrants arriving; and so soon as the
regulations might become popularly known, each immigrant would prefer to
become the propri~tor of the Land Order issued in his favor.
It is probable that the class of immigrants attracted by such regulations as these would be induced to devote their attention to agricultural
pursuits.
The machinery required for such a system is simple, and this (so long
as it may be held advisable to pay for any immigration, except for the purpose
of equalizing in the Census the proportion of males and females in the
Colony) it is essential that it should be.
I submit these suggestions, however, merely for consideration, in the
hope that, whenever the subject may be dealt with as a whole, they may be
found not quite valueless. It should be borne in mind that, if any return of
passage money is to be made by the Colony to immigrants, the utmost
care must be taken to prevent abuse of the regulations; and, judging from
the vigorous tone of the existing voluntary immigration, it may be doubted
whether it requires to be stimulated, rather than employed, by means of the
colonial revenues about to be administered on the spot.
35. The Sanitary Station at Point Nepean, originally placed under the
Immigration Agent, having been transferred to the control of that Chief
Medical Officer in July, 1854, and the facts connected with that establishment
having been reported upon by the Immigration Agent in his Annual Report
for 1853, I need not recapitulate any of the information furnished by him.
,. .A. limit to the operations of each year would of course be necessary•.
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The health of passengers during the year appears to have been
good, inasmuch as only fifteen vessels were placed in quarantine in 1854, ,
four having assisted immigrants on board, and eleven carrying ordinary
passengers; of these, five remained only two days, and six only three days in
quarantine.
36. The return of wages, prices, and miscellaneous charges current
in Melbourne indicates a fall in most articles. These Tables are carefully
compiled from information which is obtained periodically from authentic
sources, and as much dependence can be placed upon them as the fluctuating
state of the colonial market will permit.
Return No.
xvu.
37. Return XVIII. shews the rates of wages and prices current in the
country districts in 1854. There will be remarked a slightly downward
tendency in the average wages of mechanics.
The wages of female
domestics, it will be seen, have risen.
Return No.
xvm.
38. In conclusion, I would thus condense the various recommendations scattered through the foregoing Report:That the immigration in 1856 do not exceed 11,000 or 12,000 persons. See par. s.
That it be distributed in the manner recommended in paragraph 6. See par. s.
That the means pointed out in paragraph 7 be resorted to, in order See par. 7•
to pursue still further the policy by which the Land and Emigration
Commissioners have hitherto endeavored to add to the proportion of females
in the Colony.
That no one portion of the United Kingdom furnish more than a fair see par. 20.
per centage of the immigration to the Colony.
That the machinery for nomination remittances be simplified~ and the See par. 21.
immigration of relatives of colonists be thus promoted.
That in order to afford full protection to all unassisted immigrants, See par. 2s.
no opportunity be missed of putting the Government of this Colony in
possession of information as to the reciprocal course of negotiation or
legislation between Great Britain and America on this subject.
That a system of Land Orders might (so long as any immigration See par. 84.
other than the introduction of relatives of colonists, or the importation of
single women, be deemed advisable) be resorted to, which would tend to
promote a healthy immigration and the cultivation of the lands of the
Colony.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency's most obedient Servant,
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
His Excellency Sm CHARLES HoTHAM, K. C.B.,
Governor in Chief, &c , &c., &c.;
IMMIGRATION.-/.
KEY TO APPENDICES.
ASSISTED IMMIGRATION.
No. I.-Return she.ving the Names of the Ships
chartered for the conveyance of Immigrants
which arrived in the Colony of Victoria
during the year 1854; the Names of the
Surgeons Superintendent ; the Length of
the Passages; the Number of Births and
Deaths which occurred on board ; the
Number of Immigrants introduced, and the
Cost of their Conveyance and Superintendence.
No. II.-Return of the Sex and Age of the Assisted
Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of
Victoria during the year 1854.
No. III.-Return of the Condition of the Assisted
Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of
Victoria during the year 1854.
No. VI.-Retarn shewing the state of Education
of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in
the Colony of Victoria during the year
1854.
No. VII.-Return shewing the state of Education
as compared with the Religious Persuasions
of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in
the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
No. VIII.-Return shewing the state of Education
as compared with the Age of the Assisted
Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of
Victoria during the year 1854,
No. IX.-Return shewing the Number of Children
under 14 years of Age in the Families of
the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the
Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
No. IV.-Return of the Religi\lus Persuasions of
the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the
Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
No. X.-Return shewing the Periods of Engagement, and the average "Wages obtained at
1lc1elbourne, Geelong, and Portland, by the
Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the
Colony ofVicteria during the year 1854.
No. V.-Return of the Oc.Cupation of the Assisted
Immigrants who arrived in. the Colony of
Victoria during the year 1854.
No. XI.-Return of the Nominations for Passages
to Victoria, under the Remittance Regulations of 1st June, 1853, during the period
lst January to 31st December, 1854.
UNASSISTED IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.
'
No. XII.-Return classifYing the Unassisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of
Victoria, by Sea, during the year 1854.
No. XIII.-Retum classifYing the Emigrants who
departed from the Colony of Victoria, by
Sea, during the year 1854.
:MISCELLANEOUS.
No. XIV.-Return shewing the Prosecutions instituted under the Passengers' Acts, by the
Emigration Officers and Assistant Emigration Officers, during the year 1854.
No. XVII.-Retum of Wages, Prices, and Miscellaneous Charges, current in Melbourne
during the month of June, 1855.
No. XV.-Return of the Amounts collected at the
several Ports of the Colony during the
year 1854 as a Passenger Rate, under the
Act of Council (16 Vie., No. 17), distinguishing the places whence the Immigrants
have arrived.
No. XVIII.-Statement compiled from Returns
furnished by the Commissioners of Crown
Lands in the Colony of Victoria, shewing
the Rates of Wages, Demand for Labor,
and Principal Productions of eaeh District
during the year 1854.
No. XVI.-Return of Persons (other than those
introduced in Government Ships) who have
been received into the lnunigration Depots
during the year 1854.
No. XIX.-Return shewing the Prices, Wages,
and Miscellaneous Charges current at the
various Gold Fields of the Colony during
the month of June, 1855.
22
No.
RETURN shewing the Names of the Ships chartered for the Conveyance of Immigrants which arrived in ihe Colony
Number of Births and Deaths which occurred on Board, the number of Immigrants
1
Name of Ve&Bel.
Name of
Tonnage.
Port of Departure.
Surgeon Superintendent.
"0
Date of
Number of
I
I
Births
Departure. '
~
~
i
on the Voyage.
Port of
Arrival~
Aniv&l.
~
-------~~~-----:
4
5
6
7
8
9
l0
ll
12
13
14
15
...
...
...
•••
...
.•.
...
...
...
...
...
...
•.•
...
.•.
Joseph C. Sanger
J. G. Carstairs
M. E. B. Nicholson
David Macosh ••.
John Farmer ...
Saml.JohnThomas
Henry Wilkinson
R. J. Webber ...
T. J. Vallance ...
J. F. Park
...
John Coates
.••
J. H. Brownfield...
Geo. Graham ...
R. S. Jeffs
..•
Thomas Slater ...
Southampton
Southampton
Plymouth ...
Liverpool ••.
Southampton
Liverpool ...
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Plymouth ...
Southampton
Plymouth
Southampton
Liverpool ...
Plymouth ...
1132 W. Davison
.••
1238 John Baird
...
1018 John Carron
.••
690 William Rutter . ••
1323 Robt. E. Allsop ...
II70 . Robt. Wilson
...
Southampton
Liverpool
Plymouth ...
Southampton
Liverpool ...
Plymouth ...
Liverpool .. .
Greenock .. .
Plymouth .. .
Liverpool .. .
Liverpool ...
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Plymouth
Southampton
Liverpool ...
Lherpool ••.
Liverpool ...
Plymouth
Liverpool •••
Southampton
Liverpool ...
Liverpool
Southampton
Liverpool .••
Plymouth ...
Plymouth .. .
Plymouth .. .
, Liverpool
l Southampton
Plymouth ...
: Plymouth
Southampton
756
593
765
1823
1442
949
1064
694
660
931
653
808
466
2002
815
'j22
14
i 30
' 5
25
3
3
5
ll
17
26
22
15
23
7
Children.
-··~~
I
i
Poictiers ...
Lady Peel ...
Omega
•••
Boomerang...
Wanata
...
Utopia
...
Tudor
...
Truro
...
Agincourt ...
Prince Alfred
Medway
..•
Blenheim ...
Hooghly ...
Persia
...
Kent...
.••
A.du1ts.
---,---,--1----.--
Dn.teof
1----------l·----------i:1
2
3
Number of Deatbt on
1854.
--1--·!--1---·-:--
Sep. I Melbourne! 6 Jan.
Oct. Geelong ! 17 Jan.
Oct. Melbourne! 17 Jan.
Nov., Melbourne! 22 Jan.
Oct. I Melbourne! 22 Jan.
Nov.ll>ortland
.Jan.
Nov. Melbourne: 25 Jan.
Nov. Melbourne 31 Jan.
Nov. I Geelong i 10 Feb.
Nov. I Melbourne 17 Feb.
Nov. : Melbourne\ 22 Feb.
Nov. • :\{elbourne 28 l;'cb.
Dec. : Portland I 19 Mar.
Dec. Melbourne 20 Mar.
Dec. Melbourne! 21 Mar.
106
95
79
I
78
89
125
83
83
87
91
92
88
98
l
l
3
2
2
2
2
l
2
2
3
1
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
i
5
4
5
1
l
3
I
5
3
3
4
3
l
2
2
4
94
2
4
.2
6
87
5
2
7
3
2
2
1
5
1
1
2
l
1
2
2
5
7
104
3
.. I
2
2
3
l
1
1
..~ I
3
l
9
I
1
4 I
1854.
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
Persian
...
•..
Almora
...
...
Merchantman
...
America ...
••.
Matoaka ...
.. .
Parsec
•..
.. .
Admiral Boxer .. .
Conway
...
•••
Chandernagore
...
r.ord Stanley
.. .
Hilton
...
.. .
City of Manchester.. .
Ontario
...
. ..
Maria Hay...
...
Geelong
...
•••
Marshal Bennett ...
Bride of the Sea .•.
Stamboul
.. .
Edward J ohnston .. .
Nestor
...
.. .
Arabian
...
. ..
Joshua
...
•..
Indian Ocean
...
Black Eagle
...
Neleus
...
Hornet
.. .
Panama
.. .
Apolline ••.
Clara
.. .
Bloomer
.. .
Agra
.. .
...
Violet
Phrnbe Dunbar
...
Tudor
•••
I116
1148
620
769
1440
1108
696
1007
397
353
1344
1275
997
458
580
804
1080
1327
982
1286
743
453
708
342
714
561
704
1064
I
W. J. Rowland ...
John M. Burke ...
W. W. McCreight
J. T. S. Jolley ...
G. L. Hillars
...
F. W. Johnson ...
G. W. Paynter ...
A. C. Kemball ...
Richard Jones ...
George Tallis .•.
John F. Grace ...
George Anderson
D. B. North
...
W. II. Pearse ...
Denis B. Daly
William l\:lateer . ..
John G. Winstone
D. Macosh
...
T. J. Dillon
...
J ames W allis ...
James Gibson .•.
E. C. Lewis
.. •
Francis Martin .. .
Charles Turner .••
James F. Fraser •••
Patrick Kane ...
H. G. Brock
...
Robert Wilson ...
2
3
2
4
2
3
6
4
2
3
7
3 '10
3
8
4
6
6
9
3
2
1
2
2
1
I
1
I
1
1
4
4
7
7
5
9
2
3
5
2
I
1
1
2
4
1
6
11
3
3
2
5
5
6
1
2
3
I
I
2.
1 '
2
5
1
2
2
2
3
2
3
6
I
7
5
8
6
2
4
2
l
~
2
3
3
1
1
i
1
4
2
3
4
4
97
Jan. 1 Melbourne! 9 Apr.
Jan. : .Portland 25 Apr.
84
2
Jan. Melbourne: 29 Apr. 108
l
Feb. Geelong j 4 May
88
3
27 lTeb. Melbourne: 26 May
88
l
27 Feb. Melbourne: 9 June 102
2
17 Mar. ·Melbourne:~· 13 June
88
4
18 Mar. Geelong
17 June
91 ' 1
4 l\lar. Geclong
21 June 109 ' 4
1 Mar. Gceelong I 30 June 121
7
15 Apr. Melbourne! 7 July
83
5
20 J';Iar.. Geelong i 11 July 113
2
4 Mar. : Melbourne, 22 Julv 140
3
17 Apr. I Gcelong I 2-3 ,July
97
3
4 May I Melbournei 10 Aug.
98
4
25 Apr. Geelong j11 Aug. 108
4
26 Mny : Geelong 1 11 Aug.
77
2
18 May I MelbourneJ 21 Aug.
95
4
17 June, Portland
3 Sep.
78
1
21 May Portland
16 Sep. 118
1
3 June Portland
19 Sep. 108
3
24 June Geelong
28 Sep.
96
3
8 July Portland
6 Oct.
90
4
16 July . Melbourne' 19 Oct.
95
2
10 Aug. 1 Melbourne! 2-3 Oct.
74
I
86
29 July Geelong ! 23 Oct.
2 Aug. Portland ' 24 Oct.
83
3
I6 July · Melbourne! 3 Nov. 110
19 Aug. Portland
19 Nov.
92
1
20 July Portland
2·1 Nov. 124
5
25 Aug. Geelong i 3 Dec. 100
2
7 Sep. Portland
14 Dec.
98
l
5 Sep. Melbourne 25 Dee. , Ill
2
9 Oct. Melbourne 30 Dee. ' 82
2
2
31
ll
5
1
1
3
1
l
2
1
2
2
1
2
1
8
2
2
1
l
l
l
2
---
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224 19 40 42 i7
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1·: · · . . · · · · · · . . · · · · . . · · I::I
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July. 1855,
23
1.
of Victoria during the year 1854, the Names of the Surgeons Superintenden-t,
the Length of the Passages, the
introduced, and the Cost of their Conveyance and Superintendence.
-,-'-h-eV_o_y~-~----:-----------N-um_b_•r_o_f_Iw_m~ig_rn_n_~_in-tro_d_•_c~-·~----,------~
Infants.
I
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1
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j
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2
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3
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1
32
o
landed alive.
68
Ill
55
60
48
284
197
204
129
306
205
183
193
167
123
242
210
125
169
90
76
259
236
151
80
107
I45
149
239
187
225
108
36
37
22
24
17
39
43
32
12
24
50
29
33
37
17
I8
30
20
39
17
30
32
42
45
27
36
27
13
19
25
36
14
16
53
79
38
57
28
54
59
57
23
41
64
57
41
57
20
31
52
49
29
27
30
57
78
79
66
42
36
17
44
25
51
25
17
7
Ill
li 1
113
40
76
111
99
84
116
52
46
102
106
128
61
77
85
122
117
94
119
89
43
81
51
90
61
31
lOO
138
65
121
126
200
£
:~I'
38
30
37
36
34
19
59
38
3
8
2
4
4
3
4
8
4
5
2
3
1
7
12
6
3
5
5
3
6
6
8
2
9
8
2
...
6
3
7
4
1
11
11
4
14
7
6
2
12
4
5
5
11
6
2
3
4
7
10
6
5
9
1
1
7
4
5
4
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4
5
6
7
4
4
4
3
7
12
14
6
8
9
8
11
9
7
4
15
11
3
6
6
17
16
15
8
7
6
3
10
9
12
4
2
265
240
304
470
342
390
379
297
250
349
239
298
229
384
294
227! 15
206~ 18
272t 19
399 19
302! 16
333 22
337! 16
259 I9
223~ 21
308 17
205t 17
258~ 17
19St 16
318k 16
259! 15
448
434
326
281
406
41 7
419
420
252
286
483
409
296
400
190
180
463
433
.356
193
253
340
414
505
388
434
275
177
293
182
314
235
270
396!
366
289
2291
376&
362i
345
350!
224!
231!
410
352
246
332
160!
146!
402
376!
313
163
214
27 4!
331
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Conveyance
Immigrnnta who
Constn.hles,
died
and
on the Voyage.
Others,
ond
Superintendence.
£
s. d.
£ s. d.
£
8.
d.
£
3638
3869
5439
7943
5138
7482
5719
5177
4777
5518
3544
4536
3262
5236
4126
2 1
5 10
15 7
8 6
14 4
15 9
7 19 11
286
199
257
480
280
306
324
248
188
281
212
258
214
364
251
10
0
3932
4068
5712
8458
5508
7833
6056
5431
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3504
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7049
7397
5693
4630
7577
7749
7318
6655
4779
4711
9312
7994
5222
7449
4003
3442
10033
9757
7771
40.54
5363
6443
7257
10340
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6 3
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17 6
13 6
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6173 7 6
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4212
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2906
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289
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303
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-===~====~====J
Upon eaeh Statute .Adult landed alive.
20
6
6
1
1 o1
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
btl!1IGRATION.--g.
8
10
1
----1----·1---,
37l
Cent.'
1"471
of
G:rntuities to
paid upon
i
1
I
.. •
2
9
...
5
12
6
12
4
.. .
8
3
5
2
3
4
5
13
2
5
1
3
1
3
3
3
3
2
pa.id upon
Immigrants
•
'34
39
31
69
40
...
I
...
3
•••
2
•••
2
2
1
•• .
1
1
...
...
2
2
•. •
.••
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
per
Adults~ !
__ ~
19
18
I6
49
17
34
30
22
9
23
15
27
12
40
23
~-2_,_5_
37
Souls.
141
129
194
233
210
186
235
168
I57
212
135
179
100
169
173
8
14
5
3
...
Statute
Total Cost
Passage Money
Pa.ssage Money
Statute Adult~
Total
Tota.l
60
49
55
I07
64
107
67
61
47
66
45
49
83
100
56
2 . ...
...
2
2
1
•••
1
5
...
2
1
.. •
2
.. •
1
1
...
•••
.. •
1
...
...
...
1
...
...
2
1
...
...
Infants.
Children.
1 I 3
.••
•••
I ' 4
2 10
...
I3
...
5
...
2
...
1
... ' 3
1
4
...
...
...
4
2
7
••. 26
...
2
I
I.
l
Contract Priee
.Amount
Half
of
j'·
.:::
Amount of
Amount
No. 11.
RETURN of the Se:x: and Age of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
SEX
NATIVE COUNTRY
•
Mal...
England and Wales
Scotland...
...
...
...
...
...
•••
...
•••
...
g~:~~ountries...
:::
:::
:::
:::
i-:~:
-~---1!
Female~~.
118
.Maleo.
j Females.
GRAND TOT.AL.
I
:Maleo.
I Females.
I'
ltfalea,
I
Femat...
I Males.
I
Females.
Males.
Females.
!
I!'
:1
Males.
Femsles.
2019
1759
8216
2783
5235
4492
1~.:8
4~.~3
6~.:1
5456
10862
16318
1
74
108
~.~
11220
922
I
I
~.~7
1590
1352
151
200
2~.~9
I
~.~8
614
544
219
213
838
311
260
219
442
305
98
92
1~.~8
~.:7
~.~5
:.:3
~.:3
~.:
,
••:5
632
990
I 249 I
371
1'
--15-8- '
118 1
1
I
'
..-.--- - . ••- .• -.--2-38-,
GENERAL TOTAL.
il
1
'
I
TOTAL
I
I
AND AGE.
----;-------;-----------.,------------!
I
I
I l and under
1:
45
21 and under
I l4 21~years.
under
1 and under
'.
45 yearl'!.
14 yea.N,
1 yel\l"S~
Infunts.
.1
210
i 3059
i
5281
1--::-r--:::-1
6991
1164
I
r!
G. W. RUSDEN, Acting Immigration Agent.
Immigration Office, Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
1:>.:)
>+>-
No. Ill.
RETURN of the Condition of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
-
I
_,
CONDITION,
__ _______
11
,,
Sing-le
Ma.nied Adnlts.
NATIVE COUNTRY,
Malef;~.
Adult6~
Females.
Male..
...
148
313
308
...
986
1081
3175
...
572
524
484
...
8095
769
5242
1580
Mo.les.
l"ema.lea.
......
... .... ...
...
1299
922
886
1292
918
885
...
3107
England and Wales
Scotland ...
•..
Ireland
Other Countries ...
ToTAL
...
...
Immigration Office, Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
GENERAL TOTAL.
Children#
I
GRAND TOTAL,
Females.
Males ..
Fema1es.
938
734
853
2019
1759
1678
3216
2733
4913
2525
5456
10862
...
I
...
5235
4492
6591
...
...
I
16318
G. W. RUSDEN, Acting Immigration Agent.
No. IV.
RETURN of the Religious Persuasions of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
RELIGIOUS PERSUASIONS.
Members of tbe
Churclt of England.
NATIVE COUNTRY.
England and Wales
Scotland
•••
Ireland ...
•••
Other Countries ...
ToTAL
Males.
Females.
Moles,
Females.-
1590
10
150
2506
29
390
46
1702
44
74
2607
90
,..,.,
•••
~·•
•••
2925
1792
2771
···11750
•••
Presbyterians.
l
~~~
I
Other
Protestants.
' Wesleynu :Methodist&.
Females.
Mol...
186
2
1
Males.
320
5
4
•••
•••
189
329
I
Perrons of other
Persuasions.
Roman Catholie$.
Females.
167
9
.•.
245
27
1
•• •,.
•• •
176
273
G:RAND TOTAL.
-- Mules.
T
Moles.
Females.
Males.
Females,
30
36
1483
71
65
1428
•••
•••
•.•
•..
...
•••
2019
1759
1678
,..,.,
• ••
•• •
•••
•••
I
1549
4564
...
...
5456
I
F
T
I
\
1
G. W. RUSDEN, Acting Immigration Agent.
Immigration Office, Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
!:>:)
~
No.
v.
RETURN of the Occupation of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in• the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
OCCUPATION,
------~------------
Number of
La.borers.
tienants.
~sh~nhP-rds
Agricultural
-
Numb~r of Domestic
Number
NATIVE COUNTRY,
;-and
Herdsmen.
Males.
Fetn~ee.
'Number of
Mechanics
enb~d in
erecting
buildip,!fS or in
obto.mt~ or
preparmg
:Building
Materials.
N11mber ofTrudespeople
et;:gaged in ,
prepanng or selhng
articles of Food.
Number ofTrl\despeople
~ngaged iu,
makmg or sell.ng
nrtleles of Clothing.
-~~
Ma.I~.
Females.
GENERAL TOTAL,
Number of. other
Mechar.nes~
of others not included
foregoing Columns.
TOTAL.
l\
- --~-----~
I
I
~
.M'a.les.
Fema.lee.
Males.
1 Females.
1,
Males.
)
Females.
Males..
I
I
Females..
England and Wales
Scotland...
...
••.
...
503
696
12
57
3
1
865
1028
740
343
13
4
2
2
14
12
77
27
113
104
...
...
621
542
2272
1676
2019
1759
g~~=~o~~tries...
:::
1?.~5
~.~
..:
2~-~3
.•~1
..~
..:
..~
~.~
..~3
:::
~~3
1~-~2
1~.:s
4~.:3
...
2254
92
10
4776
139
240
...
1666
5940
5456
I 10862
TOTAL
...
Immigration Office, Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
I
1144
I
18
7
32
i
G:RAND
3216
2733
5235
4492
6591
16318
G. W. RUSDEN, Aeting Immigration Agent.
26
No. VI.
RETURN shewing the state of Education of the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the
Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
I
I
i
EDUCATION.
Gl'JNEll.AL TOTAL.
andW.ri~
England and Wales
Scotland
...
...
Ireland
...
...
1375
1144
'
Other Countries .•.
I
i
2072
837
1506
...
...
:
425
475
165
450
393
230.
...
669
644
1442
611
1965
.. .
...
...
!
...
...
3356
614
5274
·r
Fllm•l••·
2310
I
2019
3216
I
1759
2733
1678
4913
...
...
\
I
4492
1---
I
3278
I
5456
il
6591
11
.. .
!!
il
1486
5235
:[
I
I
TOTAL
Males.
Females~
'i
219
1696
Males~
Females..
Mol...
GIUND,
TOTAL.
T
:Femalea.
Males.
I
Persons who ean neither
Rend nor Write~•
Persons who can
Read only..
Persons who ean Read
NATIVE COUNTRY.
10862
16318
• InCluding Children and Infants.
G. W. RUSDEN,
Immigration Office,
Acting Immigration Agent.
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855,
No. VII.
RETURN shewing the state of Education as compared with the Religious Persuasions of the
Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
RELIGIOUS PEESUABIONB.
I
STATE OF EDUCATION.
Persons who can Read }
and Write ...
•••
Pe:I;s .~ho
Memben of
the Chnreh nf
England.
Presbyterians ..
3058
2891
!
Other
Roman
Metbodlats.
Protestants.
Catholics..
Persuasions.
207.5
...
324
282
i
!
c.~ Re~~}
Persons who can neither }
Read nor Write
...
I
Wealeyan
612
579
96
78
1559
1005
1093
98
89
2479
i
TOTAL.
Other
8630
...
...
I
2924
4764
I
ToTAL
...
...
4675
i
i
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1~55.
4563
518
449
I
6113
...
I
16318
G. W. RUSDEN,
Aeting Immigration Agent.
27
No. VIII.
RETURN shewing the state of Education as compared with the Age of the Assisted Immigrants
who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
AGES.
··-~ ~--~ i ,._,_! "~·-
STATE OF EDUCATION.
upwards.
45 yeare.
21 yeMB.
i
i
TOTAL,
1 and under
1
14 yeaJ'8.
Inftmts.
yean~
'
Persons who can Read }
and Write .•.
••.
291
5711
1968
648
12
...
8630
Persons who can Read }
only ..•
...
•..
49
1241
756
732
146
...
2924
Persons who can neither}
Read nor Write
...
108
1388
701
483
1464
620
4764
448
8840
3425
1863
1622
620
16318
...
TOTAL •••
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
Immigration Office,
:Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
:No. IX.
RETURN shewing the Number of Children under Fourteen Years of Age in the families of the
Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
I
NUMl!ER OF FAXILI.&S CONTAINING
;
Married Couples
without
NATIVE COUNTRY.
II
Total numbet-
Number of
Children.
One
Chlld,
Two
I
1
Three
Four
I
'
Five
Six
I
I. Seven
I
Total
of Children
number of
Familie&.
I
""'
14·
o-•
of age.
Children, !Childrell., Cbildnn. Children. I Childl'en, Childten.l
I
1---
•
I
----·----
.
England and Wales ...
566
330
239
105
64
19
6
...
1329
1510
256
203
75
65
15
6
...
958
1258
183
1441
126
73
33
4
I
932
1337
...
...
Scotland
...
...
338
Ireland
... ...
368
Other Countries
I
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1272
769
586
306
202
67
16
1
~------
ToTAL
...
I
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
lHXIGll.A.TION.-h.
I
3219
410S
I
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
No. x.
RETURN shewing the Periods of Engagement and the Average Wages obtained in Melbourne, Geelong, and Portland, by the Assisted Immigrants who arrived in the
Colony of Victoria during the year 1854.
.
NUMBER OF FAMILIES.
~
PORT OF .ABRIVAL.
I
~
H
::q
.
:'!!
A
~
•
Hired for
,---A------,
~
]lt:'§-~
~
"'""
·i l
peiannum
Three
Six
Months
Months
and less. and less.
Above
..
'·
d.
I
91 19
5
I
95
9
9
71
8
4
£
...
...
••• I
795
Geelong
...
...
6161
...
...
.. I
Portland
ToTALS
...
399
1810
292 1 124
213
40
86
23
I
22
I
=
Three
Six
Abovf!'
•
Months
Months
Six
~
"'
i'i
with Rations.
and less. a.nd leas. Months.
I
73
55
I
55
89
I
147
I
177
69
I
85
I
I
I
16
I ...
9
62
5
I
3
I
99
37
I
23
I
I
£
8.
d.
6
26
50
4
10
6
38
5 10
31
30
8
37
~..
ll.
~
~
,---A------,
~
.;l
·~
~
Three
Six
.&hove
Months
Months
Six
=
0
I
I .. .
2231
90
191
26
87
I 868
161
22
101
168
I
with Ra.tiolll.
w
I
1
999
per annum
--1--
I
I
I"~ w-
and less. and less. Months.
~---
40
I I
Hired for
~
.."
~
- - - --- --- - - -
---------
Melbourne
~
~
Average Wages
per annum
~
~~
with Rations.
Siz:
Months.
,---A------,
ll.
~ ~
~
Hired for
j
gi
Average Wages
NUMBER OF SINGLE WOMEN.
NUMBER OF SINGLE MEN.
-:r:---:--:---:-:---:---:--:--::--:--:-~~-=--=--=-
I
I ••. "
13
27 17 11
70
14
25
1
0
121
47
21 17
8
"" -:--:-1-::I
1
• The column " Did not hire" includes the persons who came out under the Immigration Remittance Regulations, and who left the Depot with their friends.
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
00
29
1fo. XI.
RETURN of the Nominat.ions for Passages to Victoria under the Remittance Regulations of
1st June, 1853, during the period from 1st January to Sist December, 1854.
NOMINATION FOR ASSISTED PASSAGES.
I
la. what Country Living.
England and Wales
Scotland
Ireland
... ...
Ntu:r1b«rof
S.ule.
Statute Adult&.
for Outftt
expenae of Pae:aage.
of Immlgre.nts.
£ s. d.
316 0 0
7
5i
110 0 0
...
73
... ...
;to assist in pa.yiug the
15~
41
Amount deposited
:
25
... ... ... ...
... ... ... ...
ToTAL
A.monnt deposited
Numbel'of
Total Amount.
£ B. d.
320 0 0
s. d.
4 0 0
£
...
110 0 0
I
I
31
622 0 0
45 0 0
667 0 0
52
1048 0 0
49 0 0
1097 0 0
NOMINATION FOR FREE PASSAGES.
I
In what Country Living.
Ireland
Nnmhel'of
Amout deposited
S.ule.
Stat!ilte A.dulta.
to HCUH Pusages.
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
tl>rOut!it
Total Amuut.
of Imm!gnnts.
£ e. d.
1568 0 0
£ s. d.
636 0 0
£
s. d.
2204 0 0
63
51
270 0 0
107 0 0
377 0 0
335
305
1684 0 0
610 10 0
2294 10 0
1353 10 0
4875 10 0
777
Immigration Office,
AliiOimt deposited
299
... ... ...
ToTAL
I
379
... ...
... ... ... ...
... ... ... ...
England and Wales
Scotland
Number ot
I
655
3522 0 0
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
30
No.
RETURN classifying the Unassisted Immigrants who arrived
PLACE OF
~~-~---,-----,~-,~--r.--------~--~~-
TilE UNITED KINGDOM.
MONTII.
NEW SOUTII WALES.
I-In_r.,_"'"~'~- :-----A~d-u-lta~.~~~~-_ch_il_d~-. ~--_-l~no~an-t•_~.~
11
PORT OF ARRIVAL,
Adults.
....
,.e;
•
~
.........
~
1
.
!i
1
~.!:a
1"'1
1'""1
.
ii
'I
. ~
J
:e!
~:r:
l"'l
'
i
i_'~'-::_1 ~ ~
1 "'"
11
~-------~
VAN DIElllEN'S LAND.
1
_.-.
Children.
-~--~-~- --~~
:§:.
3 ~~
..-:;
-~--
li
I~
.
. ~ ' . I ,;
~~,~~,~~
l'""':~
~~
I
i'~!~
~
=~~!
----1-------------,---j-- - - - - - - - --1·-+--,--1--:--lt--'-- - - - - --~-J\.felbourne .................... .
Geelong ....................... .
Portland .................... ..
Port Fairy................... ..
Port Albert ................. ..
i JANUARY ......... {
Melbourne ................. ..
Geelong ..................... .
Portland .................... ..
Port Albert .................. .
FEBRUARY ....... {
Melbourne ................. ..
Geelong ..................... .
MARCH ••.•. ·····{ Portland ..................... .
Port Albert .................. .
APRIL
...............
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong .................... ..
Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy .................... .
Port Albert ................. .
W arrnambool ............... .
1
1
1
( 1\felbourne................... ..
) Geelong ..................... .
Portland ....................... .
MAY ..................
Port Fairy ................... ..
Port Albert ................. ..
1\:[elbourne.................... .
JUNE
Geelong .................... ..
"··" ·" "" ... " { , Portland...................... ..
1 Port Albert .................. .
I Melbourne.................... .
JULY................
Geelong ..................... .
Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy................... ..
Port Albert.. ................ .
I9621 573 I971 207 39
2Ii
6 ••• I
I
I
l
IO
9
1
1
11
3
6I2 206
I2
4
95
3
1
I
62 19
3
7741. 324 139! 1I6 30
9,
5
4'
3
10
632 139 38 : 37
12
5 I
1
IOi
9
5
6
566 2I7
114 50
86
46
... I
996 I89 40
I
3251126
63 17
23 2
3
2
2
845 I37 15
9 I
1
50
40
8
4
4
~ ~
2
78 I6
...
9
!1
23I8 709 265 202 69
8
2
l
1
6
3
3
2
2
794 I89 53
45 15 6
51
2
5
3
3
I
39
5
6
I
1
2
23
8
7
2
69,22
19 8
1, I
31 ...
12
8
I
2
2
I
·~ ~: :1 :~
33
8
8
2
2
1
442 I07! 24
25
7' 2
20
4
4
3
6
i
1
21
2
4
2
664 159 45
85 23 8
1
I9
I
2
2
1
3
3
13
888 16I 44
9
5
4
4
9
5
23
Melbourne.................... .
Geelong ..................... .
NOVEMBER ...... { Portland ..................... .
Port Albert .................. .
I459 457 2251151 42
17
9
si s I
1
l
30
l
24
1
l
2
5
592 154 33
67 17 7
3
31 1
8 ...
606 134 32
6
21
8
388
58
I
ll
6
585
10 1
2
4
I
3
7
7
1
2516 763 332 266 90
89 15
I
9
... I
677 116 26
1~
9 4
I8
7
4
I
... I .. .
54I lli 31
7
I
24
3
568! 114 25
101 1 2
•••
23
3
383 1151 33
55 I91 9
4 I
14
I3
4
2
5·
18
2
6
I
2
1
4
451 102 23
74
I2! 2
2
I' ...
... I
I
... i
85
I
... I
28
14
I
...... I
1
i
I
I9
l
•••
2
I
41
2
51 .. .
I9
30
2,1"3
'
3
2
I
1
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
23
4
9
3
1
I290, 244 101
IO
7
28
6
3
I
1
584 I42 46
70 15 4
2
,,.
1
15
23
6
Melbourne ................... ..
: Geelong .................... ..
Portland ....................... .
Port Ji'airy ................... ..
Port .Albert ................. ..
'V arrnambool .............. ..
ToTALS .................... .
1
I
2769 779 270 204 73
15
9
2
I
1
530 1251 47
222 37 7
'
I
I 5 5
1
2
••• I
Melbourne................... .
Geelong .................... ..
{ Port Albert .................. .
DIDEMBEa ••.•••
8
I
7
1
:Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
Portland ................... ..
Port Fairy .................... .
Port Albert .................. .
W arrnambool ............... .
42
3
I
2236 601 228 226 47
OCTOBER . .. .. ....
864 208 6I
12 10 3
I
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
AUGUST ............ { Portland ..................... .
Port Albert .................. .
SEPTEJ\.ffiER......
23
2j ...
I
7i
2
2
19,
51
6
I6
5
76
11
4
4
so 39
20
243
45
2'
2
Il ...
41 271
63
3
:::I
I
6212I
5
4
I
5
I
I
31
XII.
in the Colony of Victoria by Sea during the year 1854;
DEPARTURE.
SOUTH AND WEST AUSTRALIA.
NEW ZEALA!ro AND S. SEAS.
GENERAL TOTAL,
FOREIGN l'ORTS.
TOTAL
Children~
.Adults,
, .; I
' .;
.: , -i
m
~
i:~:~.~
l!i
~><
~ I ;;::
Infimts.
•
I
~~
~
....
~
~>.
I
Adults.
•
~~
~
'i
e
~
Children.
l
Adults.
Children,
Children.
Adults.
Infants.
SOULS •
Infante.
--~--1-----------
•
~
•
~
l!i
Infants.
~
.
:=.
l!i
r><
~
~>.
~
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G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
IMIGli.ATION.-i.
32
1'lo.
RETURN classifying the Emigrants who departed
PLACE OF
NEW SOUTH WALES.
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
MONTH.
PO"Q:T OF DEPARTURE.
VAN DIEMEN'S LA..'ID.
I
1---------~---------11-------------~----- 1-----~------~----Childr~o..
Adults.
Inf~~onts.
Children.
Adults.
Iofl\nta~
.
.
li
~li~..:<'"1~~ j ~]
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1
Children.
Adults,
Inflmt..
-~---;
.
~)!~:S~~~
i ~~i ~ i
------------1-----------'-----1----1·---1-- _____ i - - - - - ----1---',--1 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - :
JANUARY ..
·1
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy .................... .
W arrnambool ............. ..
333 81
8 2
Melbourne .................. .
Geelong ..................... .
Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy .................... .
Warrnambool .............. ..
261 94
48
1
691 19
5: 1
4
38
2
7'
3
2
l
896 149 55
37
2
9
21
7
1
7
4
5
4
3
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
Portland .................... ..
Port Fairy .................... .
Port Albert ................ ..
242 77
21 17
30
6
Melbourne ................ : ... .
Geelong .................... ..
APRIL ............. { Portland
..................... .
Port Albert ................. .
255 76
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
Port Fairy .................... .
Port Albert .................. .
267 105
:Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ..................... .
Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy................... ..
117 30
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong ....................... .
Portla.nd ..................... .
Port Fairy .................. ..
168 36
Melbourne ................... ..
193 40
1 1
FEBRUARY .......
J
t
1
MAOOH.
MAY•••••••••..•.•.... {
JUNE
•
·1
JULY ................
1r
f
I Geelong ..................... .
AUGUST .......... '[ Port Fairy .................... .
39
9
1
1
25
6
2
3
2
6
6
1
6
43
36
5
20
1
5
1
623
14
5
518 122 43
3I 14 5
41
6
89 23
7 5
22
28
1
84 24
7
1
4
3
43
5
13
14
4
4
5
43
2
107 28
7
46
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1
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10
4
15
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9
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9! 1
29
4
22
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5
2
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7
6
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3
23
402
25
5
10
2
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2
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31
97 24
16 4
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4
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25
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8 5
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6
4
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2 2
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1
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
1
4
208 53
9 1
TOTALS .....................
1
9
5
495 107 28
10
3 2
3J ...
Melbourne.....................
Geelong . . . ... . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . .
\ Portland . . .................. .
OC'fOBER
"· ... ·• \, Port Fairy .................... .
/ Port Albert ................. ..
, vVarrnambool .............. ..
DECEMBER
77 21
54 11
2
2,
122 19
Melbourne .................... .
Geelong .................... ..
{ Portland .................... .
Port Fairy................... ..
Port Albert .................. .
3
918 174, 52
15
6 9
2
9
Melbourne.................... .
Geelong .................... ..
SEPTEMBER...... '[ Portland ..................... .
Port Fairy .................... .
Port Albert .................. .
Jl;lelbourne ................... ..
Geelong .................... ..
NOVEMBER ...... { Portland .................... ..
Port Fairy .................. ..
••• I
3
7
Port Albert .................. .
I
5
83811127 34
12
4 1
2
6
7
304
297
1
5
11
7
6
•.. I
6
34
4
4
3
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33
X.IJ:J.
from the Colony of Victoria, by sea, during the Year 1854.
DESTINATION.
I
------·~~·--···---!
!
SOUTH AND WEST AUSTRALIA.
GENERAL TOTAL,
FOREIGN PORTS.
NEW ZEALAND AND S. SEAS.
TOTAL
Adnlts,
I
Children.
I
~~~~if
!i
Adults,
Infants.
~ £ ~ l ~ ~
-----442 51
5
28
21
4'
i
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. ~~
.:li
~
'2
~
59
26
10
I
. 'd
•
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i
~
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4
37
9
6
77
18
12
4
Chi!d,..n,
j
SOllLS.
lnfBnts.
£
7
2
2291 311
313 61
12
6
5
374! 71
I
Adults.
lnfunts •
-.i
49~
16
Children.
2
6
2
6
7
1
3
2541 456
24 15
8
6
2
7
5
128
13
98
7
2845
394
20
21
6
16
2
5
2
1
1 .
172
9
5
3
Ill
4
4
6
32
2
119
96
7
22
1
1
2
1
298, 59
3
10,
2
2
17
16
4
43
2
11
6
267 23
3
7
1
2
13
2311 381
69 31
10
2
3
3
II ...
::: I :::
345 79
8
7
... 1 ...
31
29
7
59
16
11
10
3
83
8 ' ...
...
I ...
.......
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5 1
13
333 44
20
15
2
34
14
12
13
2
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1
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3
3
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2
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7
50
8
2
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3
8
2
6
6
10
3
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12
37
8
7
7
6
3
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2
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354 44
17
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9
10
7
8
3
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1
2
I
26
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2
34
25
4
26
5
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9
4
5
10
180
14
5
159
9
5
33
3025
89
22
13
122
}13
6
10
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38 19
97
5
1903 309
32
9
4
2
2
5
95
5
' 2260 355
30
5
2
2
102
6
20
2474
62
10
5
79
2
19
1
2438
65
2
4
67
6
13
2387
52
1
4
'
2
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1
4
1845 374
34 12
6
3
1
2
1
~....
2930
116
15
10
3
2178 475
46 20
2
8
2
6
12
4
85
2
1
14
1
74
9
15
1
2816
44
5
5
3
2139 399
48 18
2
1
3
1
5
119
2
2143 371
56
17
132
6
92
5
1
4
2
5
2
8
8
2
3313
56
24
20
1
2746
78
3
4
5
21
1
6
2765
84
8
17
ll
1
2401
42
5
2
3420
39
20
13
3
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
No. X.IV•.
STATEMENT shewing the Prosecutions instituted under the Passengers' Acts by the Emigration Officers and Assistant Em~gration Officers during the year 1854.
Name ot"l'erE!on Prosecuted.
.N'ame ofVcer.&el.
Date.
Clause and Act infringed.
N attll'(! of O:fl'ence.
Result of Pro&eeution..
··~
1854.
12 January .••
...
...
Clause 9-Colonial Act, 1852
Fined £10 and costs.
"
Omitting to furnish Passengers with Contract
Tickets
.••
..•
•.•
.••
•..
Clause 64-lmperial Act, 1852
Fined £15.
"
Not furnishing Provisions as per Dietary
Scale (three cases)
••.
...
...
Clause 32-lmpcrial Act, 1852
Fined £30. (Half to be divided among the three complainants.)
Clause 5-Colonial Act, 1852
Fined £5 and costs.
Clause 5-Colonial Act, 1852
"
...
Catherine
...
...
"
...
Catherine
...
Daniel McGinty
10 February
John Nussey
...
William Brodie
27 March •••
Clarence .•.
...
"
Not affording proper facilities for Inspection
William H. Saunders,
Not affording proper facilities for Inspection
13
13
29
29
29
"
"
"
6 April
18
"
Batcliff •••
Cornelia ...
...
li. Visser
...
...
Cornelia ...
...
H. Visser
...
Cornelia ...
...
H. Visscr
...
...
...
Antoinette Maria
Graham ...
...
Struan
11
"
...
Squaw
11
"
...
23
"
"
4 June
4
..
l5 July
Daniel McGinty
...
11 May
23
Master
J.Long
...
...
...
J. Hueser
...
...
...
J. A. Wilson ...
John Hullett
...
...
...
D. Jury
...
...
Waratah
...
W. Bell
...
...
...
Hellespont
...
R. F. Pockley ...
Koh-i-noor
...
J. McAwle
Koh-i-noor
...
J. McAwle
Norwood ...
...
J. Price
...
...
...
...
...
Dismissed.
!
"
No Water Closets for Steerage Passengers ...
"
Insufficiency of Provisions ...
"
"
J. Hailes Henderson,
A. J. Hogg
Non-payment of Passenger Rate
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Insufficiency of Provisions ...
.. .
... ...
... .. .
Insufficiency of Provisions ...
...
Sale of Spirits
No Passenger List
...
...
No Passenger List
No Passenger List
...
...
...
...
...
No additional List ?f Passengers
No additional I.ist of Passengers
Unserviceable Water Closets
Insufficiency of Provisions ...
Removal of Water Closets ...
...
Clause 22-Imperial Act, 1852
Fined £30 and costs.
Clause 32-Imperial Act, 1852
Fined £160 and Costs. (The entire amount divided among
the passengers.)
Clause 58-Imperial Act, 1852 Fined £60 and costs.
Dismissed : witnesses not being in attendance.
Clause a-Colonial Act, 1852
...
Clause 32-lmperialAct, 1852 Fined £5 and costs.
.. .
Clause 13-lmperial Aet, 1852 Fined £10 and costs.
.. .
.. . ...
.. . ...
... ...
.. . ...
Clause 13 -Imperial Act, 1852 Fined £10 and eosts.
...
...
... ...
... ...
Clause 13-ImperialAet, 1852
Fined £5 and costs.
Clause 14-Imperial Act, 1852
Fined £20 and costs.
Clause 14-Imperial Act, 1852
Admonished and mulct in costs.
Clause 22-lmperial Act, 1852
Dismissed.
Clause 32-Imperial A et, 1852
Dismissed.
.
Clause 22-Imperial Act, 18521 Fined £30 ani! costs.
I
~
;!>.
~
;
~
~
~
,
24 July
Red Jacket
H. Read
25
Sir John Hervey
J. H. Lovitt
Medina
Joshua Sandford
Medina
Joshua Sandford
Christian...
D. Cathery
"
31
31
"
14 August ••.
11 October .. • I Robert Passenger I G. H. Foster •••
11
"
"
"
"
"
I G. H. Foster ••.
Fined £50 and costs: In default, one month imprisonment.
Clause 32-Imperial Act, 1852
Fined £42 10s. and costs, £2 each being paid to 16~ adults;
payment was also made to 123 passengers by the Master,
at £2 each.
Clause 56-Imperial Act, 1852
Fined 10s.
Insufficiency of Provisions
Clause 32-Imperial Act, 1852
Compromised: Master paying 249 passengers £1 each.
,.
Insufficient space
Clause 1-ColonialAct, 1852
Fined £1 and costs.
"
"
"
No Passenger List
Clause 13-Impcrial Act, 1852
Fined £9 and costs.
Detaining effects of deceased Passenger
Clause 13-Colonial Act, 1852 · Dismissed: authority being produced in Court.
Insufficient space
Clause 1-ColonialAct, 1852
"
,
Insufficiency of Provisions
Clause 32-Impcria!Act, 1852
Compromised: Master paying to passengers £240 10s.
Non-performance of Contract
Clause 44-Impcrial Act, 1852
Compromised: 10
being provided
"
No Passenger List ..•
Clause 13-Imperial Act, 18521 Fined £20 and costs.
F. Macy
Improper conveyance of Passengers
Clause !-Colonial Act, 18521 Fined £100 and costs.
G. Dewhurst
Insufficiency of Provisions .••
Clause 32-Imperial Act, 1852
J ames McKean, Pas.. .
senger
.. •
"
John Knox
A. Miller
"
Neptlmus
Scharman
Flora
Kitchen
20
Cronch Brothers
J. Crouch
30
Victoria .•.
Ahrens
Delgany .. .
T. Hayes
"
Hannah .. .
G. J. Wetherall
"
"
"
Amazon ...
C. Raystrom ...
Singapore
Nabob
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, SJst July, 1855.
Clause !-Colonial Act, 1852
Not having free access to and from the
Between Decks •••
••.
•••
••. I Clause 23-ImperialAct, 1852 I Dismissed.
Insufficiency of Provisions
Bonaventura
22
Excess of Passengers
(£45 to be divided among 9 witnesses.)
Fined £1 18s, and 6s. 6d. costs.
"
22
Fined £90 and costs.
Clause !-Colonial Act, 1852
J. Wilkic
13
Cluusc 32-Imperial Act, 1852
Excess of Passengers
Honaventura
13
Insufficiency of Provisions
Fined £30 and costs.
R. Jenkins
"
Fined £10 and costs.
Clause 13-Imperial Act, 1852
Christian
6 December
Clause 58-Imperial Act, 1852
No Passenger List
J. Gillies
20
Sale of Spirits
Fined £46 lOs., and £5 lOs. costs ; also payment in
compensation to 218 passengers, ut £2 each.
'l'horwalsden
10
Fined £10 and costs.
Clause a-Colonial Act, 1852
"
"
3
Clause 14-Imperial Act, 1852
Unwholesome Provisions
C. Y achtman ..•
1 November
No additional List of Passengers
Dismissed.
Malvina Vidal •• .
30
Fined £10 and costs.
Clause 32-Imperial Act, 1852
Robert Passenger
25
Clause 58-Imperial Act, 1852
Insufficiency of Provisions
"
"
16
Sale of Spirits
"
"
Master
.••
I Riotous conduct
~
C;t
Fined £7 15s. and costs.
£5 each, and 6
Compromised: the Master paying £2 each to 160 passengers.
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
36
No. XV.
RETURN of the Amounts collected at the several Ports of the Colony of Victoria during the year 1854, a~ a
Passenger Rate under the Act of Council 16 Victoria No. 17, distinguishing the places whence the Immigrants
have arrived.
t
PLACES WHENCE Tl'f.E IMMIGRANTS RAVlll ARRIVED.
Ports
Date
of
at which
Collection.
CoUeeted.
Number of Sta.tuf.t!
Total Number
o£
Adults~
i Statute
A
Amounts
Adultl'l
upon whom.
The United f New South
Kingdom.
W ttles.
I
jv.
']
N, Zealand
South and
W. Austrnlill. &.n:d8.8eaa.
FOYeign
Ports.
ha:s been levied.
-----
1854.
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
JANUARY .... , Portland ......
Belfast .........
1 Port .Albert ...
2737
27i
20
4
11231
25
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert ...
896~
8081
18
·•·•··1
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert .••
12251
17l
24!
12l61
16
...
...
...
857!
198!
999
1
A>=·····i
Melbourne ...
Geelong .....
Portland ......
Belfast .........
Port Albert ...
Warrnambool
'
l
'
FEBRUARY
lliMH
Mu •......•.
i
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Belfast .........
Port Albert ...
...
......20
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
10
1
496
19
1083
14!
......
14
...
...
S!
Auou"······i
...
...
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Port Albert ...
38011
25!
~®"···1
.Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Belfast .........
W arrnambool
Port Albert. ..
3573
NOVEMBER
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert ...
2104
32!
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert
'V"arrnambool
Belfast .........
4654
33
36!
514!
7
...
...12!
1
DECEMBER
i
11
...
...
......
...
...
...
7!
...
......
865
114!
1
4
16
5171
1
21
491
4491
7
3738
322
22
7
26
1
774
91
6!
418}
5
...
...
12
...
.........
...
...
...
...14!
1
571
35
...
21
1282
706
13t
573!
6051
27
...
...
...
7
ss
81
.. .
3319
112
20!
27
666!
3
5638!
140!
4
14!
.. .
......
.. .
1087
...
...
...
...
......
5995:\
77
5
25
...
...
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
7
12
12
10
6
6
6
6
0
---829
28
5
6
1409
35
1
3
1
15
0
2
15
12 6
2
0
12
7
!I
I 1498
...
.. .
348
30!
588!
...
.. .
...
...
...
...
5819!
101!
1454
25
2
1
0
23
399
.........
3768
147
21-l
91
416
1568 15
6275
23 12
94!19 2
76!
111
2715
1 10
6 I
14!
...
...
...
351!
87!
8
91
243;\
...
64!
12
...
...
352!
52!
2
98!
6
330
8
2
...
...
...
...
38
...
...
1~
...
...
11
6:\
2
94
... I
...
869 12 6
1450 15 0
1546 10 0
...
...
...
...
.
1061 15 0
1525 12 6
...
...
...
6
gl
...
...
1503 12
17 61
19 5
1 5
6 5 0
1512 2 6
29 10 0
4 17 6
...8
6
0
0
6
0
6048!
118
19!
...
921 17
1029 0 0
770~
...
I
942
36
5
22
17
7
15
12
10
10
6
6
0
6
0
0
0 o.
15 o·
7 6
15 0
---0
I
1508 12
6
1006 17
6
6
6
01
0
,-3~
I
ToTALs
934 10
80 10
510
1 15
6 10
0 5
1018
32
1
2
6
i
d.
25 17 6
6 2 6
2 0 0
----
5~
8.
1498 15 0
-1469- 12- 6
I
£
6
5 o!
0 0
0 0
10
4
3
3!
2
94
...
...
...
61!
...
451
1
266
...
......
413
4074!
129!
6!
10!
26
...
2
...
...
...
...
521
SO!
19!
.. .
...
......
...
5
.. .
......
...
...
...
...
4
......
...
...
...
...
679!
8
...
...
...
...
12
5878i
103}
24!
8
25
3
868
I 49
1
3
1691!
3
...
...
8~
3474!
197
4
12
77
2
...
...
......
......
633
1
...8
0
0
0
6
6
15
5
0
12
2
...
...
1035
64
d.
1404
80
8
3
2
...
...
8.
5619
321
32
14!
...
33
815
26
...
70j
273
3064
15
{
655!
1
£
262
284
70
759!
88
4
12
719!
116
.Melbourne ...
Geelong .....
Portland ......
Port Albert ...
SEPTElfBER
.. .
686
...
...4:\
...
...
...
·i
......
...
...
...
...
3260!
10!
Jm ..
...
...
u
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert ...
Belfast .........
...
!
49i
13
766!
6
...
754!
3
9i
312!
10!
1623!
10!
17!
1
692!
265!
2!
10!
8!
474
85
3
Melbourne ...
Geelong ......
Portland ......
Port Albert ...
Jm ...
TOTAL.
levied.
the Rate
1644 7 6
I
... ,28812! 110253
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
9326!
5284
550!
I
8043
I
62269i
I
15567
7 6
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
No. xv:r.
RETURN of Persons, other than those introduced in Government Ships, who have been received into the Immigration Depot during the year 1854.
ADULTS.
DATE,
I
CHILDREN.
---.-~--~
DISPOSAL.
~~·
WHENCE ADI\IlTTED.
TOTAL,
Males.
Femt.lea.
Males.
REMARKS.
F'ema.hls.
Hired,.
DJd not
Hire.
1854.
27 September
•••
Ilydrnbad (ship)
...
...
28
3
3
3
37
•••
37
Discharged Soldiers.
30 September
...
Queen of the East (ship) ...
...
6
3
7
5
21
...
21
Admitted to proceed to Warrnambool.
27 October
.•.
Water Witch (ship)
...
...
12
...
.••
...
12
...
12
Persons shipwrecked on King's Island.
••• i Water Witch (ship)
...
...
4
•••
•••
...
4
•••
4
23 November
...
Clasmarden (ship) •••
•••
2 October
...
Ilonseless Immigrants' Asylum
4 .November
.
At varions periods
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
I ...
1
•• •
4
5
5
7
21
...
21
Houseless Immigrants' Asylum ...
4
4
2
.••
10
2
S
59
15
15
105
1
'
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
T"~
...
...
...
~.
17
I
I
'
'
Persons shipwrecked on King's Island, and forwarded to Mauritius.
Destitute Immigrants received from the Batman's Ilill Asylum.
. Destitute persons admitted from 2nd October to 31st December, 1854,
[
under the provisions of the Act, 16 Victoria, No. 17.
j~.._·_l _______________________
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
~
"
38
No.
x.v:u.
RETURN shewing the Wages, Prices, and Miscellaneous Charges current in Melbourne during
the month of June, 1855.
~ages.
I
OCCUPATION,
RA'l'E.
HOW I'AID,
r
REMARKS.
'l'o
From
_i
...
...
... ... ...
...... ...... ......
.........
... ... ...
... ... .. .
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ... ... ...
... ... ... ...... ...
... ...
...
....
...
...
...
...
...
...
.. .
Bakers
Blacksmiths
(foundries)
" ...
Boatmen
Boilermakers
Bootmakers
(Wellingtons)
" (short boot11) ...
"
Brassfounders
Bricklayers
Brickmakers
Bullock Drivers (on farms)
(on the roads)
"
Butchers
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
......
......
Cabinetmakers
Carpenters
,
(jobwork)
Coachmakers
Coachsmiths
Compositors
Cooks (male)
Coopers ...
Curriers
...
...
...
.........
...
...
...
...
... ... ......
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... ... ...
... ... ...
...
...
...
... ... ... ...
...
... ...
Firemen (steamers)
......
Fitters (iron) ...
Engineers...
Gardeners
Glaziers
Grooms
Gunsmiths
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
......
... ...
Harnessmakers
House Servants (male) ...
(female)
"
(~iris)
.
"
( oys)
Hutkeepers
Laundresses
Lightermen
...
Masons
Messengers
Millers
Moulders ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...... .........
...
...
Ostlers (at hotels)
Overseers (sheep)
(farms)
...
...
"
...
...
...
...
...
Painters
Pastry Cooks
Patternmakers
Plasterers ...
Ploughmen
Plumbers ...
Porters
Printers (pressmen)
...
.........
...
...
...
... ...
... ... ...
...... ...... .... ..
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... .. .
...... ...... ......
... .. . ...
... ... .. .
... ... .. .
... .. . ...
... ... ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
"
"
"
per piece
per pair
per "diem
..
per 1000
per week
"
"
per diem
"
per "week
per "1000
per week
"
"
"
.........
...... ......
d.
0
0 13
0 14
010
0 15
0
4
0
0
0
3
1
1
0
0
3
1
2
2
0 13
0 15
010
4 10
4 10
0 1
1 10
3 0
4 0
4
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3 10
0
16
15
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
...
2 10 0
per annnm
per diem
per annnm
per week
78 0 0
0 15 0
65 0 0
2 10 0
"
per annnm
.
,
"
"
4 10
65
25
15
26
30
0
0
0
0
0
...
75
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 0
75 () 0
52 0 0
20 0 0
40 () 0
40 0 0
per "
week
35 0 0
2 0 0
per diem
per week
1 0 0
2 0 0
3 10 0
5 lO 0
2 10 0
4 0 0
6 () 0
1 5 0
lOO 0 0
lOO 0 0
1 10 0
150 0 0
150 0 0
per
,
"
"
"
~tnnnm
per diem
per week
per diem
Reapers
per acre
...
... ... ... ... ...
... ... ... ... ... ...
I
0
16
5
0
14 0 0
0 12 0
......
1
0
3
2
12 0 0
0 16 6
per diem
...
6
per month
per diem
Quarrymen
...
...
...
.. .
0 16
6 0 0
per week
...
...
...
8.
4
10 0
3 0
18 0
15 0
0 0
15 0
10 0
10 0
0 15 0
2 10 0
0 16 0
0 15 0
40 0 0
0 15 0
0 8 0
5 0 0
... ...
... ...
.. . ...
... ...
...... ......
d.
0 0
0 14 0
0 17 6
£
5 0 0
.. .
...
...
...
8,
£
per week
per diem
"
perannnm
per diem
..
40 0 0
0 0
0 18 0
with rations.
"
"
and found.
"
"
"
"
"
"
,"
..
"
,,"
3
.
50 0 0
,
...
"
0 Hi 0
.. . {
I
None required
at this season •
39
No. XVII-continued.
mltagrs.
RATE,
I
OCCUPATION.
HOW PAID,
(~
From
...
...
.........
...
...
...
......
Saddlers
...
Sa.ilmaker;··
Sailors (England)'
, (coastwise)
Salesmen...
•..
Sawyers
Seamen (steamers)
Shearers (good) ...
Shepherds
Shinglers ...
Ship Joiners
Shipwrights
Slaters ...
...
Stockkeepers
Storemen ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
......
...
......
.. .
...
......
...
...
...
...
...
...
...... ......
...
... ...
...... ......
...... ......... .........
... ... ...
... ... ...
......... ......... ........ . .........
...
......
...... ......
...
Tailors (journeymen)
(trousers)
"
(dress coats)
" (shooting coats)
", (waistcoats)
Tanners ...
••.
Tinplate Workers
Turners
...
...
...
...
.........
...
...
...
......
...
...
...
...
.. .
... ...
Unskilled Laborers
. ", (on board......ships)...... ......... .........
"
Upholsterers
... ... ... ... .. .
Waiters (at hotels)
... ... ... ...
Warehousemen ...
... ... ... ...
Watchmakers
... ... ... ...
Wharfingers (laborers)
...
Wheelwrights ...
... ...... ...... ...
...
...
per week
"
per month
"
per annum
per diem
per month
per 100
per annum
per square
per diem
"
"
per annum
per week
per hour
per pair
each
"
per "week
"
"
per diem
per week
per diem
"
per week
"
per "diem
per week
£ 8. d.
4 10 0
2 0 0
610 0
5 10 0
75 0 0
1 0 0
6 0 0
£
0
0
0
1
75
3
0
0
1
1
0
3
5
4
0
5
15
15
0
0
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
'·
d.
0 0
0 0
100 0 0
9
6
6 10 0
...
40
.. . {
50 0 0
80 0 0
1 0
0
10 0
2 0
6 0
10 0
5 0
0 0
6
0 12
2 0
1 15
011
"
"
None required
at this season•
and found.
"
..
...
5
10
0
8
10
2 10 0
2 10 0
6 0 0
0
0
0
0
0
and found.
0
0
0
0
0 10 0
3 .o 0
0 8 0
0 13 4
1
1
3
0
4
.RElUJtltB,
To
..
l!Jttrr <!!uttrnt.
.
ARTICLES.
RATE •
'
QUANTITY.
Prom
Building Materiah.
Bricks
Lime...
Hardwood ( scantling)
Stringy Bark
...
Sydney Cedar
Red Deals, 9 x 3
... ... ... ... ...
... ... ... ... .. .
... ... ......
... ...
... ... ... ...
... ... ... ...
11 3
... ... ...
X
"
Shingles
...
. ..
Slates (Duchess
Laths, 8 and 4 eet •••
fe ...
...
...
...
Clothing.
Men's Stout Shoes •••
Women's
Wellington Boots (Colonial)
(imported)
,
Inside Cotton Shirts
Flannel
...
Regatta
Check
Moleskin Trousers ...
Fustian
...
...
...
.........
...... ...... ......
......... .........
...
...
... ... ...
... ... ... ... .. .
... ... ... .. . ......
... ... ...... ...... ...
..
!mnGRA.TION.--.1.
...
per 1000
per bag
per 100 feet
per "foot
."
per 1000
"
"
per pair
.
"
"
es.ch
"
"
per "pair
"
£
4
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
23
~.
d.
10 0
8 0
5 0
5 9
0 9
0 8
011
10 0
0 0
1 5 0
£
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 10 6
0 4 6
8 0 0
1 5 0
9
4
10
0
2
8
REM:ABKS.
To
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
2
2 0
5 0
5 0
11.
d.
...
......
lineal•
"
superficial
1 15 0
0
0
0
0
0
6 0
8
8
6
0
7 0
7 0
40
No. XVII-continued.
~tice
Q!uttent.
RATE.
ARTICLES.
QUANTITY,
,---·~..A'----,
I
From
REMARKS.
To
1-----1--1~~-~
Clothing-continued.
Duck...
.. .
Cloth
...
...
Waistcoats (cloth)
,
(fancy)
Coats (superior cloth)
,
(shepherds) ...
Handkerchiefs (cotton)
,
(silk)
Prints, for Gowns .. .
Cotton Socks
.. .
, Stockings .. .
Worsted
,
.. .
Blankets
...
Rugs (woollen) ...
Mattresses (hair) .. .
Sheeting (calico) .. .
Forage.
Hay...
.. .
Straw
.. .
Oats...
.. .
Bran...
.. .
Maize (crushed)
Fuel.
Wood
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
per "yard
per pair
"
each
per lb.
per yard
per ton
per b~hel
"
Plckles :::
:::
Soap ...
...
Candles (tallow)
,
(sperm)
Butter (fresh)
,
(salt) ...
Market Produee.
Eggs
.. .
Fowls
.. .
Ducks
.. .
Potatoes (new)
,
(old)
Cabbages .. .
Turnips
.. .
Carrots
Onions
per 4lb. loaf
per lb.
per ton
per lb.
"
"
"
"
"
per dozen
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
per "cwt.
per dozen
per lb.
"
"
"
per dozen
per couple
pe;'lb.
per cwt.
each
per bunch
d.
0
0
0
6
0
6
6
0
0 4!
0 4~
0 7
0 10
11 0
5 0
3 0
£ 8. d.
0 5 0
0 16 0
0 11 0
£ 8.
0 3
0 8
0 6
0 2
1 2
0 17
0 0
0 2
0 10
0
1 15
1 15
0 1
0 4
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
"
per horse load
... perbullockload
per ton
Provisions.
Bakers-Bread
.. .
.. .
,
Biscuit ...
.. .
,
Flour
...
.. .
Butchers-Beef
...
.. .
,
Mutton ...
.. .
,
Veal ...
.. .
,
Pork ...
.. .
,
Sausages-Beef
,
,
Pork
Confectionery-Soda Water
,
Lemonade
,
Ginger Beer
Grocery-Tea (family) .. .
,
, (ration) .. .
,
Sugar (family) .. .
,
,
(ration) .. .
,
,
(loaf) .. .
Coffee
.. .
"
.. .
Rice ...
Cheese (English)
"
,
(Colonial)
"
Bacon ...
•••
Salt
...
...
"
"
per pair
per yard
each
0
0
0
0
o o
13
9z
0
0
9 0
0 11
0 4
0 12
0
0
0
0
1 5
2 0
4 10
3 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
40
0
0
0
0 10
0 10
0
1
0
0
1
6
1 0
0 11
0
0
0
1
3
15
0
0
0 11
6
0 13
6
1 15
3 0
0
0
3 10
0
1 10
1 0
0
0
0
5
0
0
0 5
0 5
0 10
0 6
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
2
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
6
0
5
4!
6
2
46
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
8
8
9
1
0
3
0
0
1
6
0
0
0
3
8
0
0 1
0 0
0 11
0 15
8
2
0
0
0
4
0
0 7 0
0 12 0
0 14 0
0
8
0
0
1
5
0
0
0
8
0 0 6
0
0
8
0
0
9
0
0
7
0
0
2
2
6
6
0
1
2
0 0
I!
0 8
0 ll
0 0
0 1
0 3
0 3
0
0
6
0
6
0
6
0
2
0
8
0
6
4
0 0 6
0
0
6
railway.
41
No. XVII-continued.
~tice
<!!unent.
REMARKS.
ARTICLES.
Tu
Market Produce-continued.
...
Cauliflowers
Lettuce
...
. ..
Stock.
Horses (heav-y draught) •..
(light draught)
,
,
(good saddle)
Fat Cattle
.. .
Working Bullocks .. .
Fat Wethers
.••
...
Store Sheep
Sundries.
Bullock Drays
...
Horse
,.
••.
Spring Carts
.•.
Dray Hamess
...
Satldles (English) •..
,
(Colonial) ...
each
"
"
"
per "pair
each
"
each
,
the" set
each
£
0
8,
0
0
d.
9
4
35
45
45
0
0
0
0
80 0 0
0
0
80
0 0
lO
0
0
5
25
0
0
I7
45
I
0 0
2 0
50
30
0
0
0
0 I8
0
0
0
30
28
45
7
3
8
o· o
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6 0 0
£
11.
d.
0
1
0
60
0
0
0
0
0
10 0 0
6 0 0
9 0 0
Tob~Mto.
Negrohead (in bond)
Cavendish ..•
. ..
Colonial
...
. ••
per lb.
"
"
the load
Water
Wines and Spirits.
Port...
. .•
Sherry
••.
Brandy
...
Gin (English)
Whiskey
.. .
Rum
.. .
Porter (English) ...
"..
..
..
per dozen
"
the'~e
0
0
3
4
6
0
0
0
6
0 4 6
0 4 6
0 0 9
0 2
0
0
I IO 0
I
2
8
2
0
0
3
0
3 0 0
2 8 0
3
0
0
I
7
2
0
0
0
12 I2
0
3 IO 0
the gallon
I 2
0 I7
0
0
per'hhd.
per dozen
per hhd.
per dozen
6
0
0
0 I4
I2 0
0 I4
0
0
0
!
RATE,
TERM
DESClUPTION.
OR
r,.--'A'----- - - - •
QUANTITY,
Advertisements
Cartage.
In Town •••
...
...
...
{
To the Gold Fields-Mount Alexander ...
,
Bendigo
...
. ..
Ballaarat
.. .
The Ovens .•.
.. .
Mclvor
...
.. .
"
per inch
per diem
pet' load
per ton
"
"
"
Hotel ChargM.
Bed and Board
per week
Lighterage.
From the Bay
per ton
Livery Stables.
Keep of a Horse
per diem
per week
To
From
8,
d.
3
0
1 IO
0 5
0
0
£
0
£
8,
d.
10 0 0
15
15
35
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1 10
0
3 10 0
7 6
0 10
0
0 10 0
3 0 0
1 0
3 IO
0
0
0
REMARKS.
42
No. XVII-continued.
Jai~ttllaneous lltbatge~.
~TE,
TERM
DESCRIPTION.
01!.
-
QUANTITY,
From
---
BEliiUKS.
To
'
- -
Livery Stablei!-COntinued.
Hire of a Horse
Horse and Gig ...
"
Carriage and Pair
...
"
... ...... ......
... ...
Rent.!
Cottages, 2 rooms
4 rooms .•.
" 2 stories, 5 and 6 rooms ...
Houses,
...
ShCJ&ing a Hwse.
The Set
... .........
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T<>Wuge.
River
...
...
...
...
Wa1Mng
...
...
...
...
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
{
...
{
"
£ 8. d.
I IO 0
2 0 0
8 0 0
per week
0 IO 0
per diem
"
"
per annum
saddle horse
cart horse
per ton
per diem
per dozen
I 0
200 0
0
0
8,
d.
I IO
300 0
0
0
£
0 10 0
0 I2 0
0 12 0
0 14 0
0
0 3 6
0 2
0
0
5 0
5 0
0
6 0
and found.
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
No. XV%%%.
STATEMENT compiled from Returns furnished by the Commissioners of Crown Lands, shewing the Rates of Wages, the Demand for Laborers, and the Principal Productions
of each District in the Colony of Victoria, during the year 1854.
A..
WAGES.
I;
1.:
FEMALES.
MALES.
~
11
Per Diem without Food and Lodging.
~
1
Smiths.
I
Wheelwright•·
I
Per Annum, with Food and Lodging.
Bricklayers.
s.
0 15
1 5
1 5
1 0
£
Gipps' Land .. .
Murray
.. .
Western Port
Portland Bay ...
Wimmera
...
...
Averages
0
d.
d.
£
0
0
0
0
0 15 0
1 10 0
1 5 0
1 0 0
ol
I
Maoon•.
I Form Lahorm.l
I
I
~~~-'·_
Shepherd•.
'
'
8,
...
2
£
0
1
1
1
1
6
8.
g'l
15
10
0 0
0 o]
0 o,
8,
d.
£
70 0
50 0
1 0 0 145 0
1 0 0 60 0
1 0 0
...
0
0
0
0
55
40
35
45
50
£
8,
...
d.'
£
...
0
0
0
56
5
o 1 45
s. a.
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 e
0 0
0
0
i
i
£
8.
a.]
Housemaids.
£
8.
I
a.]
Laundresses.
£
40 0 0 35 0 0 40
40 0 0 . 35 0 0 . 35
45 0 0 135 0 0 35
35 o 0 30 0 0 30
40004000
~-o-~-=-:-o-,
35
8,
I
d.
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 o
...
o o
Nursemaids.
Farm
General
House:::iervants.
d.
£
8.
d.
£
26 0 0
30 0 0
30 0 0
20 0 0
35 0 0
40
40
0
0
0
0
35
35
30
30
40
0 0
0 0
0 0
0
0
28
40
34
0
£
I
I~vants, I
8.
4
0
...
...
...
0
oI
8.
d.
gI
0
B.
PRODUCTIONS AND DEMAND FOR LABORERS.
DISTRICT.
Gipps' Land ...
Murray
...
Western Port ...
Portland Bay ...
Wimmera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
.. .
...
...
...
...
...
...
.. .
...
.. .
...
DEMAND FOR LABORERS AND DESCRIPTION OF LABORERS REQUIRED.
PRINCIPAL PRODUCTIONS.
I
.. .
...
...
...
Wheat, Oats, Potatoes, Wool, Fat Cattle, &c.
Sheep, Cattle, Oats, Potatoes, &c.
...
Hay, Oats, Wheat, Potatoes, Wool, &c.
... .
Wheat, Oats, Hay, Potatoes, Wool, Hides, Horns, &c....
Hay, Oats, Wool, Cattle, &c.
Immigration Office, Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
...
...
...
...
...
..
......... .........
.. . ...
.. . ...
Chiefly House Servants and Shepherds,
Every description of Laborers.
Agricultural Laborers and Female Servants were in demand.
Laborers towards the end of the year became more readily obtainable.
Sawyers, Fencers, Domestic and Farm Servants.
G. W. RUSDEN, Acting Immigration Agent.
~
~
44
No.
RETURN shewing the Prices, Wages, and Miscellaneous Charges current at the
TERM
DISTRICT OF CASTLEMAINE.
Oil;
DESCRIPTION.
QUANTITY,
Golden
Point.
C!i8tlema1ne.
Butchers' Meat .•..•• { Beef ............................•.
Mutton ..........................
r~:~e~· ·: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::
JSo~.
H
••••••••
Groceries •. . . . . . . . •. . Salt ..........••...................
Tobacco .........................
Rice ...............................
lArrowroot.......................
I
Chandlers' StMes ... f Soap .... · .. · ........ · .... · ........
t Candles .........................
~Bread ..............................
Bread Stuffs ....... "[Flour ..............................
Oatmeal. ..........................
r·
Dairy Produce ... .. . Butter ............................
Cheese ............................
H
•
\Spades ...........
Shovels ....
Hardware ............ , .
Pwks ..............................
Buckets ...........................
00 . . . . . . . 00 . . . . . .
00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.........
{mm•k~.........
Boots .......................•.....•
Potatoes .........................
,lfiscellaneous . .. .. . .. . Oats ...............................
If.
d. £
8.
d. £
s. d.
£
0
9
0
0
8
0
s. d.
8
£
0
0
0
0 10
0
s. d.
0 10
0
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
8
0
0
6
0
0
9
0
0
9
6
0
3
6
0
2
6
0
3
0
0
2
6
0
3
0
0
3
0
2
6
0
2
0
0
2
6
0
I
9
0
2
0
0
2
6
0
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
7
0
0
6
0
0
8
0
0
9
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
0
6
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
1
0
0
6
6
0
6
0
0
6
0
0
6
0
0
6
6
0
6
6
0
0 10
0
1
0
0
0 10
0
0
8
0
0 10
0
0
9
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
I
6
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
0
8
0
0
9
0
0
9
0
0 10
0
1
0
0
I
0
0
3
9
0
3
6
0
3
6
0
1
6
0
3
9
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
6
0
0
9
0
0 10
0
0
9
0
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
9
0
I
0
0
0 10
0
0
8
0
I
6
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
3
0
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
2
0
3
0
0
3
6
.
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
3
6
0
4
0
0
2
6
0
2
0
0
3
6
0
2
6
0
2
6
0
3
0
each
0
8
0
6
6
0 IO
6
"
.
"
."
.
"
..
"
per 4 lbs.
per lb.
"
per quart
per lb.
"
.
.
per pair
"
per lb.
per bushel
,
I
0
0
0
0
7 0
7 0
0 10 0
7 0
0 7 6
0 7 0
0 10
0
0
7 6
7 6
0
8
0
0
0
9
0
0
7 6
0 10 0
0
8
0
0
0
8
0
0
1 10
0
1
5
0
1
0
0
I 10
0
1
5
0
I 10
0
I
5
0
I
5
0
1 10
0
0
0
6
0
0
5
0
0
8
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
0
7
1
0
0
1
1
0
1 15
0
1
0
0
1 12
0
1
4
0
0
0 lO
0
0 15
0
0
9
0
0 13
0
6
0
0
1
0
0
1 0
0
1
.
5 0
5 0
1 0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
"
1 0
1. 5
0
1
5
0
1
1
5
5
0
1
l
Blacksm1tbs ........
Day Laborers ..
"
"
0
JHorse Teams
"
oo . . . oooooooooooo
~:~::;~···:~· ~~~~:~~;~
.
Bullock Teams .................
(Carriage from Melbourne ....
00 . . . . . . 00.00 00 . . .
0 10
.." I 1
00 00 . . . 00 00.
"
I
0
.
per ton
0
...
...
5
0
0
0
5 0
0
l
0 12
0
0 15
0
0 10 0
0 12
0
0
3
0
0
12
0
0 12
1
0 12
0 45 0
...
1
0
0
1
0
0
...
1 0
0
0
0
0
...
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
...
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
...
1
5
0
1
5
0
...
I
0
0
1
5
0
...
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
...
1 0
0
1
5
0
0
0
i
0 15
0
...
0 12
0
0 10
0
...
...
0 15
0
0 12
1
5
0
1
0
0
0 17
0
0
.
Immigration Office,
Melbourne, 31st July, 1855.
0
000
0 18
0 '50 0
...
...
0
40
0
...
5
2 10
0
...
...
per annum 50 0 0 40 0
per diem
7 6
1
1
Quarry~ en ......................
0
0
1
I
0
0
per diem
~
0
0 IO
5
(Sawyers ...........................
........
9
0
0 30
~ ~-
0
I
0
..
7 0
0 7 6
0 7 0
0
1
0 35
oo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
••
£
0 10
0
00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I
Avoea.,
0
36
.....
Splitters ........
Bricklayers ......................
Tentmakers .......
·-Lal:ming Men ....... <( Painters .........................
Hephurn.
£ a. d.
per ton
I Carpenters
000000.......
"
Muldon.
Bran ..............................
lHay ...............................
I
Cartage
per lb.
Fryer's
Creek.
0
3
14
40
0
0 50
0
0
6
0
...
3
0
0
3
0
0
5
0
0
3
0
0
0
0 18
0
0 18
0
0
0
0
I
45
XIX.
various Gold Fields of the Colony of Victoria during the Month of June, 1855
DISTRICT
0 F BALLA.\.R.<\.T.
Burnt Creek.
£
s. d.
£
~.
I
H•••bcote.
Balls.arat.
i
d.
£
s. d.
£
8,
DISTRICT OF THE OVENS.
DISTRICT OF BENDIGO.
i Beecbwortb.
IY.ck~:.":.. r· Boc~••d.­
Snokevauey.
d.'£
8,
s. d.
£
0
8
0
0
07
006
008
007
006
006
0
8
0
0
07
006
008
008
006
006
d.
8.
d. ; £
8.
£
d.
8.
£
d.
8.
d.
£
8,
d.
0 10
0
0
9
0010009
0 0 10
0
0
9
OOJO{J09
0
0
030036026
026020
0
2
0
026026030030
0
3
0
0
0
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020026026026
0
2
6
008008
0
0
0
3
0
3
0
030040026
0
1
6
0
6
0
2
0
0
6
0 0 8
0 0 8
0 10
0
1
7
0080
0010010
0
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0
0 6 6
0
0
060076060
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0 7 0
070076076076
0
8
0
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0
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0
0
0
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0
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0
0
0
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0
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0
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0
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0080
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0
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0 10 0 ' 0 10 0
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0
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0
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0
0
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4
1
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0
0
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0
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0 150
I
G. W. RUSDEN,
Acting Immigration Agent.
BY A UTHORIT)' :
JOHN .FERRES1 GOVERNMENT PRINTER,
MELBOURNE.