[Wednesday 28 July 1852]
PORTLAND.
Our receipts are to 17th July. There is little
of general local interest to relate, such items
as contain anything of import, we append :—
The wool shipped from this port for tlie present
year, will not be less than 8,400 bales. There
is every prospect of its reaching a much higher
figure, next year. The Emma Eugenia has ar-
rived here, from London, with 204 immigrants,
and reports that in about a fortnight after her
departure, another immigrant vessel whs to sail
from London and one from Liverpool, both also
for Portland. Although immediately upon the
arrival of tbe vessel there were applicants for
four times the number landed, only a few en-
gagements were made, the new arrivals refusing
to hire until they had 'looked about them,'
for fear of being deceived in not getting the
highest wages. Many of them, were kept in
the depot, on the day they landed, for 36 hours,
without any food ! The rations, as supplied to
immigrants whilst awaiting hire, not being de-
livered. Eleven of the crew of the Emma
Eugenia, were sent to the watchhouse for several
terms of confinement, for insubordination
during the passage, — Portland Guardian
