The chief difficulty is servants.

You see, almost every other man here is either a convict, an ex-convict, or a runaway sailor; about as bad material as you could want to see, for the formation of what they call at home a genteel establishment.

The number of emigrants who come out is small.

For the most part they have a little money and take up land, or at any rate, go up country and look for work there.

A few, of course, who have been sent out by their friends at home to get rid of them, loaf about Sydney and spend their money, till they are driven to take the first job that offers.