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to the regulations which it was deemed advisable to enact for the general 

 welfare; — and for a continuance there, a punctual observation thereof, is all 

 that is needful. This measure involves a point of considerable interest, and 

 as it is to be hoped that it will prove that the persons constituting 1 the popu- 

 lation will advance beyond a state in which the mere means of existence 

 paralize exertion and lull to rest, the result will be of much importance, 

 and the advance thereto will be carefully recorded in the columns of this 

 Journal. 



Return of the Population, &c. of the New Settlement on the Cat River, 

 on the 11th January, 1830. 



The settlers of No. 1, have, by means of a drain, led out water for irriga- 

 tion, &c. ; those of Nos.2 and 14 have effected the same by two drains ; those 

 i if No. 3 are employed in forming one, as are also those of Nos. 4, 5, 8, 9, 

 10; and those ot ISo. 17 have already completed two, and are advancing 

 w ith a third. In October, nine muids of barley and oats, and three sacks of 

 Indian corn for seed, were distributed amongst these parties at the expense 

 of government, but of the latter hardly one-tenth grew, the rest being eaten 

 bj insects. 



Depredations.— About the middle of December the Bushmen murdered 

 two herdsmen belonging to a farmer of the name of Kruger, living in the 

 Nieuwveldt, and carried away the cattle they had under their charge. 



On or about the 12th of September, Carel van iler Westhuisen, of the 

 District of Beaufort, had 170 sheep stolen by the Bushmen. 



Execution.— Jan Magerman, a Hottentot, was convicted by the Supreme 

 Court in August last, ol the murder of his wife or concubine Sanna, and exe- 

 cuted on the 26th of the same month. 



A gentleman, in the capacity of a religious instructor, visited the said Ma- 

 german soon alter his condemnation, and found him one of the most igno- 

 rant of the human species he bad ever conversed with. He (the culprit) de- 

 clared, that before he entered that prison he had no idea whatever of 

 God, having only beard bis name in cursing and Swearing: he had never 

 been at a missionary institution, never entered a church, nor never heard 

 of a future state of existence. In reply to several questions put to 



