The distress of the operatives in New South Wales appears
to be even greater than the distress at home. Mr. John Norton, New South Wales Labour Delegate, writes to the Times of last Saturday (Christmas Day) a most striking account of the attempts made in the Colony to compel the Government to find work for the unemployed artisans, and of the dismay with which the artisans of that Colony find that emigrants are still going out there to compete with them in the greatly overstocked labour market. The Government, says Mr. Norton, had been compelled to find work for 6,000 unemployed artisans during the year, while 100,000 had been relieved in the Night Refuge and Soup- Kitchen Charity. Emigrant operatives in New South Wales seem even more unwelcome than would be coals carried to Newcastle. They resemble more a great increase to the numbers of a starving garrison.
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