Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser (Sydney, NSW : 1845), Saturday 8 November 1845, page 2


Cokn Question.

A gentleman at Penrith, lias favoured us with a valuable compilation of statistics, relative to the growth of wheat in this colony, during the last ten years, and also to its importation and exportation. We publish it for the information of our readers. While this topic ex-

cites. great interest, throughout the colony, it seems inexplicable to us, why Parramatta shews such reprehensible supineness. It was wont to be the bo st of the townsmen, that they were generally foremost, in' agitating every measure, affecting the prosperity of the colony.