Emigration to South Australia, –On Saturday last, about twenty-five persons, male and female, left this town and neighbourhood, under the direction of Mr G. Rae, agent for her Majesty’s Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, and sailed that afternoon from Leith to London, to be there embarked on board the Lloyds, and were to sail for their adopted land on Thursday last. Their passage was paid by the Commissioner from Leith to London.– Stirling Observer.


Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 25 July 1839, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/281.