The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44
Blenheim, Marlborough, 31st December, 1878
31st December, 1878.
The only immigrants received during the quarter were those by the "Edwin Fox" to Nelson and transhipped to here. They were fifty-four in number, classed as follows:—Nine married couples, nineteen single men, nine single women and four children. The men were all agricultural labourers, and the single women domestic servants. All found employment within a few days of arrival, and double the number would have been readily absorbed.