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] < 'er' Domestic Intelligence. *
i TJbe?jProprie$ors,of,one of the New Nor-
folk coaches; have j taken in dudgeon theare-*,
.marks^we^ last*, week made .¿respecting the s
dangerous manner m which the coaches were
allowed by law, Jo be overloaded, ^n our last
wementioned, that one of the coaches had,,at \
onejtime,itwenty-five or twepty-six passengers,
ibut, w^ ,havel since* heard of a coach |Of ,-the; ,
same proprietors leaving town with no less
than thirty-three. The steam-boat, which will
shortly commence running, will soon reduce
WesVexîrtoin^ Wdst;^^âtt|ëy/Oug,ht
tó'be^therwise;"we (should/deem»it our fduly
to shew* .'the greàt'lnconveniencé',, not to say
anything about risk of lifefto'which travellers,
pn the New Norfolk' Roaft, are subjected. The
steam-boat^ ,we hear, wjll tató/cabin pas-
sengers at 3s,, land steerage "at 28.^80^ and
will perform the voyage in the same1 time as
the coaches-the?charges by'which, are 7s. 6d'.
inside, and 5s. out. By, the bye, j since our
last observations, the carriage price of parcels by
one of the coaches, has advanceu fifty.per cent.,
perhaps the^charge p'f passengers may have
advanced also, therefore,,in mentioning 7s. 6d.
and 5s., we are only speaking of what used to
be'charged ten days since. * ' ,
The most important feature in Colonel
Arthur's, prison discipline "is, unproductive
labour-are examples wanted ? Look at Port
Arthur, i iwhere nine hundred men are em-
ployed-r-no onezcan tell at what work. Look
at the Bridgewater folly, where men have been
trying for, years to fill up a fathomless soft
mudhole, and who aré as near the completion
as1 they,were three r years / since. As well
might mén'be^employed removing'a mountain
into the sea for all the good they have done, oras
well might men be employed collecting water
in a cullender. True, some gangs are pro-
ductively employed, to wtit-Sorell road party,
in .cutting a road through -Colonel Arthurs
Marsh Farm estate. Nottman's road party
is making a road through, Colonel Arthur's
fine properties, at Jerusalem., The Spring
Hill i.oad party are cutting a road leading to
Caí i ingion, a splendid estate of His Excellency
the Lieutenant Governor ; and the hulk gang
are improving the immediate neighbourhood
Df Cottage Green-all these are, it is true, em-
ployed in productive labour ; but what indi-
vidual will be most benefitted by thoir labour ?
-Colonel Arthur.
What a thing at is to be a.favorite, Mr.
Anstey of Oatlands, lately made application
to tl\e Government for a swarm of Bees-his
application was of course, immediately at-
tended to-Why? Is he not a \L P. and
M. L. C. ? Most people are glad to send for
such "gifts," but tins was not necessary on|
the pait of Mr. Anstey. A boat with five
prisoners of the Crown was obtained from the
Marine, to carry two men and the hive to the
Ferry at Gieen Point-whence these two men,
[prisoners belonging to the Government gar-
den, and rationed by the Commissariat) pro-
ceeded with the hive to Anstey Barton-the
journey took them four days-this is one Way
of employing prisoners of< the Crown in Go-
vernment1 employ. How fortunate was! Mr.
Anstey to have such a present as a hive sent
him ! About fifty applications were made
previously to his - even Mr. Burnett the
public favorite, was high in the list to have
his turn-but the ColoniaLSecretary does not
stand A. 1. with His Excellency-he has had
no bees from Colonel Arthur's garden ! I
From a private letter from Sydney, we
are sorry to learn, that Captain Stein, well
known to many of our readers, has been, with i
his chief mate, lodged in jaol, charged with
an alleged crime of having "knowingly taken
away from this Colony a prisoner of the
Cráwn. Captain Stein declares he never saw,
or knew of the prisoner being on board till
three days after he had been at sea. Captain
.Stein is too well known in this Colony to be
even suspected ot such an act as is charged
against him; 'and'iye have no doubt, the
whole is a plot to* injure him. It may be
remembered, that Captain Stein did once find
a prisoner of the Crown, stowed 'away on
board the William the Fourth, which he, with
considerable trouble, delivered over to the
authorities of this place. Captains cannot
be too cautious when in port-if not cautious,
they are likely to become the tools, or rather
victims of any unprincipled set of fellows who
may stow away prisoners for the purpose of
afterwards proceeding against them.
Sad complaints are being made in all
quarters, of the with-drawal of the post
office messengers in the interior, by .which,
means settlers are sometimes compelled to
send twenty miles to a post office. At New
Norfolk, the settlers on the other side of
the river are most negligently attend-
ed to. The post-office messenger to Both-
well goes by the doors of the settlers, and yet
have they to send to New Norfolk for their
letters and papers-the crossing and re-cros-
sing at the punt costs a shilling-and, per-
haps, there are no letters when sent for. Mr
Oscar Davis has desired us to say, that if
the Postmaster will allow papers and letters to
to be left at his house (or if this cannot be done,
at all events, the post-paid newspapers may
be left there) ,he will take care they shall be
properly delivered. At Kangaroo-point^ great
compljúnts aje^made aboult the post-office.
It appears,, thft public pound and the watch
house are bojth.open on a Sunday, whilst ¿he
{osfr-office, js^not. The, Postmaster is Chief
>i8trjct Constable andpoundkeeper^ hythe
post-office he, obtains only fa Balaryr-by, the
other two situations he obtains/ees / - "'
- .On.Saturday last,1(thë whole, town was in
an uproar-bonfires, ^and illuminations were
.talked^ of-it was ? learnt with universal-satis-
faction that the agent of the Surry has been
applied to, to know whether that vessel, which
is now advertised for London, had accoramo
darions of a suitable deJcriptíóCwiÄe'Met
personage. The agenfs an8wer,was of co%ge
iii the affirmative.^rthwitfcáertóáhSS '
mour like lightning aïl&roWh ¡the town im»
Colonel Arthur was 1AÍ t^ftfesfEg
for England-oh, happy hews r^uïWorJïïS
natelythe agent was woefully surpriçéWatfaiï
hour afterwards, when he difcbVeréd the'ex-
alted personage was not Colonel Arthur^ rbii¿
some person of the" name of Ashton j* I'L^
With BL liberality which/ d(rc¿%r^,f{|
Captain Read, he has finally . set ^Wst^idl
possibility of further Utigation, /espe^ti^^bei,
land in dispute at New Town,.' Captain^TEteâà.
offered to pay his ow(n costs in the^late¡j¿ctiojD^
provided Mr. Innis ( would give,him a"rtelea^e;
in full of any claim, or suppo'sed^clalm.'jffiat
he might have on the property-the fcosts^j^
both sides amounted to nearly £600^bWhj»!;
a'pity it is people cannot -settle 5 difference's^
amqng themselves instead oÇ paying ¿Q^deajj^
for the lawlers to settle them for tlbem^ ^¡t\A
So Mr Frankland, Jias! gone^ihe grand
tour, when.'he will behome,no*bn'ecanleü^js
Suppose the Surveyor General were to dis^W
ver another new country, of,what us&tellàfe
be? The Government cannot give lana, ^an4
we are, sure they Cannot sell land at such; a
distance from .the habitable world-what a
pity Mr. Frankland is not ajbotanist I 0Witk
such a tour he might be enabled, to puzzle tha
learned Dr. Ross so skilled "in botanical know-
ledge that even no one can-comprehend him..
We lately saw a large cart fulL of cab-
bages going down Liverpool-street,- Ave
asked the cal ter where he was going to. with
such a load ?-" Why sir," said he " these be -?
the vegetable rations of the men emplóyed^in
the Government garden"-the Commissariat
pays for these vegetables! At the present
time there are tons of vegetables rotting
on the ground, in these said'Government'
gardens-we beg pardon Colonel Arthur's
garden. , "A
Poor Toby is strongly suspected of be-
ing joint Editor of this Journal. It surprises
His Excellency, how we become acquainted
with every thing that is going on in certain
quarters. His Excellency pndes himself on
his secret police-but our scouts are by fi» '
better placed, than are his-we never will,» >
dive into private affairs, otherwise we could
astonish His Excellency,.by shewing, him-in
print one day, what he said in private the day
before-we can do it, , .1
The Hobart Town Cricket Club have
challenged the Carlton Club. The latter have
accepted the challenge, and the Match will
the played in the Paddock on Saturday next,
at twelve o'clock. It has much surprised us
that the eleven winners of the last great match'
have taken no notice of the challenge lately
published by the eleven Townspeople. To let
such a challenge go by unnoticed, is anything
but reputable to the honor of the Club ?
We have been requested to state, that
cattle and sheep stealing is carried on to a
frightful extent in the neighbourhood" of New '
Norfolk, It appears, the constables'are too*"7
much engaged in dancing attendance on the
great men of the district, to pay attention to '
these depredators. The constables should be 'r
ordered to traverse the bush and learn intel-
ligence of what is going forward. < ><>
A Correspondent desires us to askJ Mi1!
Thornloe, of the Assignment Board, whether
he cannot afford to spare one of the two ex-
cellent shoemakers he has now in'his employ.1
The same Correspondent tells us to ask Captain ""
Montagu, whether he has any further work
for his prisoner shoemaker-his prisoner tailorf
.-his prisoner, &c, Sec. ' ' "¡ >
As Mr. Surveyor General was going on
a grand tour, his brother-in-law, Mr. Máspn,u,
thought he would do so also. Mr. Frankland
we suspect, has gone on a wild-goose (Or emu)'
chase ; but Mr. Mason has game of a far more ¡
enviable description in view, Mr. Mason has
gone to fetch himself-a wife !
The Lotus, Captain Gore, arrived at
Launceston on the 30th-we understand 'she
, brings out a large amount in specie. ' t f
To-morrow is the first Wednesday of the ' J
month-the day on which the Deputation,'"
meet ; a numerous assemblage is expected
the hour appointed, twelve o'clpck. ;
We snail*next week allude to Dr. Ross's t
notice of this Journal in his work entitled the^v
Hobart Town Almanack-we have now' nq<ij,'
tim&ï1-' ,s < > a imi>
,i. ' About a ton and a half of newspapers .are r,
coUectedj at, the post-office, all owing to Cplo4,ti
no1 Arthur?«,tax-upon-knowledge Act. u < ~> **.
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