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failed through such conduct ; and it is more 
than pi’ohable, that if he had commenced with 
smaller means, and had gradually improved his 
property, his fate would have been very dif- 
ferent. 
I shall leave these cases without any further 
comment, convinced as I am, that each of them 
furnishes matter for serious consideration, and 
that they are practical illustrations of the causes 
of success or failure of those who emigrate to the 
colony of New South Wales. And although I do 
not mean to affirm, that the majority follow Mr. 
* * * ’s example, I must venture to assert that 
thoughtlessness — useless expenditure in the first 
instance — waste of time and other circumstances, 
lead to equally ruinous consequences. 
One of the greatest objections which fami- 
lies have to New South Wales, is their appre- 
hension of the moral effects that are likely to 
overwhelm them by bad example, and for which 
no success in life could compensate. In a colony 
constituted like that of New South Wales, the 
proportion of crime must of course be great. 
Yet it falls less under the notice of private fami- 
lies than one might at first sight have been led 
to suppose. Drunkenness, as in the mother 
