COMMUNICATED BY HON. A. NORTON, M.L.C. 107 



" My letter home, I believe, ended with my safe arrival at 

 Bafchurst, so I will end here as my life since is known to all my 

 family. I will only add that my troubles then began. I lost 

 my husband, my home and three sons, but I have never felt the 

 ■want of kindness from all connected with me, and whatever I 

 might have thought at the time, it has pleased God to spare my 

 life until I can now say from my heart, all things have been 

 "wisely ordered. I am now in my eighty-ninth year. I have 

 7 children, 44 grandchildren, and 59 great-grandchildren living 

 in many parts of the world — England, Denmark, India, New 

 Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, and the Fiji Islands. 

 This day the marriage of one of my grandsons is being cele- 

 brated and he takes his bride to the Fiji Islands. The God who 

 has protected me through all these long years, may He be the 

 •God of them all, protect and bless them for ever. 



" (Signed.) Elizabeth Hawkins, 



"19th October, 1871." 



" Memo. — I have stated what the settlement of Bathurst was 

 in 1822. I will now say what it was in 1871. It is a city, and 

 has its Bishop, several churches, its Mayor and Corporation, 

 sends its member to the Legislative Assembly, has its banks and 

 fine buildings, its School of Arts, its market ; it will soon be 

 lighted with gas, and the railway from Sydney is within 30 

 miles of it. Surely this is great progress, showing energy, 

 •wealth, and enterprise." 



