Emigration to South Australia –On Tuesday last, sailed from Gravesend, for Adelaide in the new colony, the John Renwick, a fine ship of 500 tons burden. This vessel contains 131 emigrants of the following descriptions: 37 young married couples, having 32 young children ; 9 young bachelors, and 7 young spinsters, some of whom are expected to marry on the passage ; 2 carpenters of maturer age, engaged to superintend the erection of forty wooden houses, which constitute the principal cargo of the ship.

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Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 26 October 1836, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/264.