Copy of an article From a Tasmanian Colonial Newspaper.
October 1845.

By one of those singular combinations of circumstances which 
defy anticipation, and, break through all ordinary rules of 
probability, the British colony of South Australia is recieving her 
chief accession of population from Germany.

About this time last year the George Washington 
sailed from Bremen for Port Adelaide,whith about 200 emigrants - 
men,women and children.

They arrived after a pleasant run of 106 days, and in the course of 
a fortnight or three weeks the labourers had all got emplyment. The 
favourable accounts of the colony previously received from the old
Greman colonists having been confirmed by the experience and 
correspondence of the passengers per the George Washington, 
another expedition  has sailed from Bremen consisting of six cabin 
passengers and 268 steerage passengers per the Patell, 
which went to sea on the 21st of April. [1845]

Among the cabin passengers are the son of a wealthy farmer - the 
nephew of one of the first merchants in Hamburg- an experienced 
chemist and a Captain in his Hanoverian Majesty's service, 
on leave of absence, who is thoroughly conversant with mining and 
smelting operations.Among the steerage passengers there are nearly 
forty able bodied labourers, miners, and etc, who are ready to engage 
under him in these operations.

Among the other emigrants are several possessed of small capitals,
amounting in all to about £3,000.

There is also a party of 33 persons,relatives of the inhabitants of 
the German village of Klenizig, in South Australia, who have been 
induced to follow their relations to that land of promise.

That colony presented a favourable field for the British labourer,
and the extensive purchases of lands,amounting to upwards of £30.000 
value, afforded ample means to convey thither labourers who could not 
afford to pay the expense of their passage, but one-third of this sum,
or nearly so, has been misapplied - repayment is refused -   and the
 consequence  is that the boon, which had been provided for our own
 
impoverished,hard-wrought,and ill-paid labourers, and which seemed 
actually within their reach, is withdrawn, and others possess 
themselves of it.

The present expedition of German emigrants is said to be even superior 
to the last, consisting of able-bodied labourers, an equal number of 
each sex; a large proportion of adults and youths fit for immediate 
work; and all of highly respectable moral character.
The following are the summaries of the passengers,exclusive of those 
in the cabin

Males - 134		Females - 134		total = 268

Adults - 156
Youths from 14-18 years  - 16
Youths under 14 years of age - 96
Total - 268

The owners of the vessel has taken the labouring emigrants at a very 
low rate of passage-money, and trusts to their future industry and 
success in the colony for making up the remainder
The accounts which have been received from the passengers who went 
last year by the George Washington have been so very 
favourable - not only from the labouring emigrants only, but from a 
very intelligent experienced Mecklenburgh farmer, who went in the 
cabin and from the captain of the vessel, who made it is business to  
inform himself of the success of the emigrants, and who made several 
journeys into the interior- that the owner has determined, on the 
return of the George Washington, to send her on another trip 
to South Australia.
He has advertised her accordingly,and the applications for passages,
both by labouring emigrants and by persons possessed of small 
respectable capitals, have been so numerous that she will have a 
full complement immediately on her homeward cargo being discharged.

There will thus be,by these two vessels,an accession to the population 
of South Australia of not less than five hundred emigrants of the most 
valuable kind.
In what light do these facts place the conduct of our Colonial office.


note from J.Fawcett: This is a newspaper article,and should only be
used as a general reference. Original sources should always
be accessed for family history purposes and information authenticated.
copyright.Jenny Fawcett [Aust]. 2000.
ref.LA 09101845