APPENDIX. 2>M 



1827. 



A year of drought aiul financial distress. 



26 January Popular agitation for k'gislativo and judicial reforms commenced. 



8 March Postal conununication Hist cstablislied in New Soutli Wales. Charges, 



3d. to Is. ; newspapers, Id. 

 April-July ... Allan Cunningham discovered the Gwydir, Dumarcsq, and Comlamine 

 Rivers, and the Darling Downs. 



— September... The tunnel to convey water from the BoUny swamjis to Sydney com- 



menced under direction of Mr. James Bushy. 



1828. 



— August Richmond and Clarence Rivers discovered and named hy tlic Hon. 



Captain Rous. 

 10 November... Cai^taiu Sturt starts on his first expedition, and .liscovers and names the 

 River Darling, 2 February, 1829. 



1829. 



1 June Foundation of the Colony of Western Australia. 



4 August First Circuit Court held (at Campbelltown). 



21 ,, Warrant appointing new Legislative Council proclaimed. 



12 October Creat drought of 1827-8 -9 broke up. 



3 November... Captain Sturt starts on his second expedition and traces the river Murray 

 to the sea. 



1830. 



2G January Foundation stone of the Sydney College (afterwards the Sydney 



Grannnar School) laid. 



1831. 



16 May First steamship (the Sophia Jane, 256 tons), arrived from England. 



2 August Disposal of Cro-wn lands by grant discontinued. 



22 October Governor Darling embarks for England. 



2 December ... Governor Bourke arrives ; Colonel Lindsay, C.B. , acting in the interim. 



1832. 



6 April Flood in the Hunter. Maitland under water. 



1833. 



22 March Mechanics School of Arts established at Sydney. 



25 May Major Mitchell erected a stockade and called it Fort Bourke, on the 



River Darling. 

 14 August Appellate jurisdiction of the Privy Council extended to the colonies. 



1834. 



13 August Settlement formed at Twofold Bay. 



19 November... Edward Henty landed and formed a settlement at Portland Bay. 



1835. 



6 June Batman's treaty with Port Phillip natives for the possession of about 



600,000 acres signed. Here Batman settled, and Melbourne was 



subsequently built. 



1836. 



9 March Major Mitchell starts on the expedition in which lie discovered tlic 



country called by him " Australia Felix." 



29 September .. Captain Lonsdale took possession of the territory of Port Phillip (now 



Victoria). 

 28 December... Foundation of the Colony of South Australia. 



1837. 



— March ....... Governor Bourke visits Port Phillip and directs a township to be laid out 



on the banks of the Yaria Yarra, giving it the name of " Melbourne.'' 



— June Busby's tunnel, conveying water from Botany Bay to Sydney, completed. 



5 December ... Governor Bourke sails for England. 



1838 



24 February ... Sir George Gipps assumes the government, Lieutenant-Colonel Snodgrass 

 having acted in the interim. 



30 April Botanic Gardens, Sydney, opened to the public. 



1 November... Prepayment of postage by stamped covers introduced at Sydney. 



