The Remittance

By: Meg Buchanan

London 1874- When his friend William Hennessey turns up on his doorstep at midnight needing somewhere to hide, John Willis doesn’t realise how much his life will change.
A few days later, the two friends are about to board The Remittance, an immigrant ship bound for New Zealand.

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London 1874- When his friend William Hennessey turns up on his doorstep at midnight needing somewhere to hide, John Willis doesn’t realise how much his life will change.
A few days later, the two friends are about to board The Remittance, an immigrant ship bound for New Zealand.

They discover William’s father has booked them into steerage and instead of the allowance he was expecting William only has three hundred pounds to live on. John has even less money.

William decides his father has arranged things this way as some sort of test, or punishment and he’ll obey him and go to New Zealand.

John isn’t so sure, until he sees Daisy Hammond, another passenger, and sets about winning her heart.

Both William and John have trouble adjusting to life in steerage, its hard and uncomfortable, but they find ways to make it easier.

William meets Charlotte who is going to NZ to start a high-class brothel and she is travelling with all the girls who will work for her.

John and William make friends with Courtney Samuels who is travelling home to New Zealand. Courtney tells them goldfields are about to open near where he lives, and they should come with him and join the goldrush.

They decide they’ll stick with Courtney and try goldmining.

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