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SYDNEY.
The appointment of Mr. Blaxcell as a De-
puty Commissary, and the mode about to be
adopted of issuing the Government Invest-
ments in Barter for Grain, at each of the three
principal Settlements, must be productive of
the most beneficial consequences to the distant
Settler ; as by such an arrangement the in-
habitants of Parramatta, Hawkesbury, and
their Districts, will be enabled to avail them-
selves of the advantages offered by the In-
vestments, without being subject to the fa-
tigues, and necessary loss of time to which
they have occasionally been exposed.
The articles mentioned in our last week’s
Paper to have been taken out of the passage
boat and detained, were restored to the
owners, upon a compensation being made to
the seizors for the trouble they had been at.
At one o’Clock on Friday morning the 6th
Instant, an Out‐house belonging to Mrs.
Cummings, laundress, was broke into and
robbed of divers articles of wet linen.
On Saturday the 9th instant, at an exami-
nation before R. Atkins, Esq. Judge Advo-
cate, Thomas Parsonage, a watchman, stood
charged by another watchman, with being
found asleep on his post. The accused had in
charge the whole of the Government Provi-
sions deposited in the lowermost ward of the
General Hospital, which might have been
plundered during the interval of his ill‐timed
slumber. The relieving watchman, who
now become his accuser, said that he went
on duty at the Hospital at 12 o’clock, that he
walked several times round the depository
unquestioned, and was much alarmed to find
the post vacant ; but that some time after,
Parsonage made his appearance, saying that
he had gone into a room nearly adjacent to
light a pipe, and that the fire had drawn him
to sleep. As he had nothing to offer in his
own justification, he was dismissed from the
Watch, and ordered to labour at one of the
Public Agricultural Settlements ; an exam-
ple which, however lenient, will, we hope,
operate as a caution to others against so dan-
gerous a breach of duty, of which the profli-
gate is ever ready to avail himself.
On the evening of Saturday the 7th instant
a Celebration of Nuptials took place on the
Rocks, at which a numerous group of con-
gratulants assembled to greet the enamoured
Tᴏᴜᴄʜꜱᴛᴏɴᴇ and his beloved Aᴜᴅʀᴇʏ.‐‐‐
Compliments at an end, the circling planet
of the board was briskly courted, and a fidler,
with his merry crowd, received a universal
welcome : the merry dance commenced, and
the fair bride led down the Country Bumpkin,
which was performed in character. The
Cheshire rounds and Irish trot were also gone
through with equal success, after which a
contest for the ʙʀᴇᴇᴄʜᴇꜱ ensued, but was
determined in favour of Madam Beatrice,
and the ladies at parting, withdrew in tri-
umph.
On Monday evening a grand serenade of
ᴄᴜʟɪɴᴀʀʏ instruments waited on the new‐
married pair, which in harmony came little
short of marrow‐bones and cleavers. The
musicians demanded a fee, imposed by cus-
tom, and which being complied with, the
YOUNG couple were left to their domestic
QUIET.

On Wednesday last the following state-
ment of Timber, &c. sent on board the
Glatton on account of Government was
concluded, viz.

162 Pieces of crooked and straight Timber,

from 41 and a half feet to 10 feet in

length, and from 10 to 20 Inches in Dia-
meter : The species consist of Mahogany,
Stringy‐bark, iron‐bark, Black and Blue
Gum, and Box ; most of which are fit for
Ship‐building ; the number of solid Feet
is estimated at 4700.

55 Pieces of a Wood resembling Lignum

Vitæ, lately found ; It dyes a light
yellow, and may be useful for that pur-
pose, as well as for the Pins and Sheaves

of blocks.

20 Casks of Blue Gum Bark, which has

been so successfully used in this Colony for
tanning Leather.
Some Grindstones.

2 Casks of Iron Ore, as a Specimen.

Exclusive of the above, 13 Plank and Logs

of She‐oak have been sent to different indi-
viduals.

On Thursday at noon 79 Reduced Soldiers
of the New South Wales Corps, with their
Wives and Children, embarked on board
the Lady Nelson, from the Hospital Wharf ;
All the Privates and Non‐commissioned Offi-
cers off duty accompanied them, and on

leaving the shore, they received the good
wishes of their old comrades, with three
earnest cheers, which they returned. If any
thing could add to this interesting parting, it
was the assiduity and attention shown by Mr.
Harris, who steered the foremost Boat that
towed the Lady Nelson with his fellow sol-
diers, along‐side the Glatton.

One of the soldiers, who had a dog remark-
able for his attachment, thought to secure the
animal the better by cramming him into his
chest ‐‐‐ an experiment that had nearly proved
fatal to poor Fidelio, whose apprehensions
during his confinement, lengthened as it was
by unforeseen delays, were equal at least to
those of Ferdinand Count Fathom, whilst im-
mured within the German’s wardrobe.

Last week a tame Kangaroo was sold on
board a vessel in the Cove for the sum of five
guineas !

Last week one of the Heifers brought by
the Castle of Good Hope, which strayed from
the Government drove a few days after they
were landed, was secured by a party of la-
bouring men, at work in the brush near Ma-
jor Johnstone’s farm, after a long chase, and
brought into Sydney in excellent condition.

The Artist who painted the Ship ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ
the Wind, in Pitt’s Row, was perfectly happy

in his notion of display, but not altogether so
in his ideas of propriety : With a fresh breeze
abaft, her ensign projects, in an exactly oppo-

site direction, at least half a yard over the

stern. This may be the fault of the Colours,
which, perhaps, scorn to submit to the gale.

On Tuesday evening a woman accidental-

ly fell overboard from a boat near the Hos-
pital Wharf, owing to its putting off before

she had time to seat herself. The Steward
of the Bridgewater being in the boat at the
time, jumped in after her, and, with the
boatman’s assistance, got her safely on

shore.

Last Tuesday se’nnight as some young men
were amusing themselves with the rough
sport of wrestling in a house at Parramatta,
one of them received a fall, by which the
splinter‐bone of his arm was broke.

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