The Wool Trade.–London, Thursday Night.– This afternoon the first sale of wools for a long time past took place at Garraway’s Coffee-house. The quantity announced for sale to-day was nearly 200 bales, consisting of about 100 bales of New South Wales wool, 50 bales of Van Dieman’s Land wools, &c. The New South Wales wool …
Trade Wool –The accounts received in Lond from New South Wales to the 8th of January, state that the produce of the last year’s clip of wool in Australia will be greatest than that of the preceding year, and the the quality has also considerably improved. From Van Dieman’s Land it is now ascertained that …
House of Commons Thursday, May 6. Mr J. Smith presented a petition from the Australian Company which was founded for the purpose of cultivating lands in New South Wales, praying that they might be incorporated. The petition was ordered to be referred to a Committee. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 12 May 1824, available at …
Australia. –We understand the celebrated navigator Captain Parry has been appointed the Director of the Australian Agricultural Company. He proceeds to that colony immediately ; the salary is stated to be very handsome. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 20 May 1829, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/211.
Emigration. The following is an extract of a letter dated Louisville, August 12th, 1820, from a Scotchman who has been long settled in America, to his friend, a Scotch Farmer, who rents 500 acres of land in the County of Middlesex. “The circumstances in which this country is placed at present are truly melancholy, when …
On Monday 14 instant, the ship Andromeda of London, James Muddle, master, sailed from Leith Roads for New South Wales, with 67 passengers, all of whom are very respectable people. The vessel has on board a full cargo of merchandise, and a great number of agricultural implements. Citation: Scotsman (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 19 October 1822, …
New South Wales A journey into the interior of New South Wales, across the Blue Mountains, performed by his Excellency Colonel Mac quarrie, Governor of the settlement. From the official account, dated Sydney, June 10. 1815. The Governor desires to communicate, for the information of the public, the result of his late tour over the …
Emigration to America. [ Extracted from No.15 of Cobbet’s Register, published on Saturday, 12th instant ]. Cobbett’s arrival in America,&c. On Wednesday evening, the 27th March, we embarked on board the Importer, D. Ogden, master, bound to New York, where we arrived on the 5th of May, with about 40 steerage passengers, farmers, and tradesmen, …
Emigration The authenticity of the following details of the miseries endured by some German emigrants proceeding from Amsterdam to America is, we are told, guaranteed ; otherwise they are almost too shocking to admit to belief : “Libson, Nov. 4 “We have just been witnesses here of an event which has renewed those gloomy reflexions …
New South Wales The following particulars respecting this flourishing colony will not be unacceptable to our readers :– “We are informed by Lieutenant Grant, who is lately arrived from New South Wales, of the flourishing state of that colony ; he left Port Jackson in November last, when the crops were very luxuriant and beginning …