l2<* HISTORY OF 



the Sugar-Cane arrived, with 110 male and 50 

 female convicts. In the course of the voyage 

 a mutiny was discovered, and one convict 

 found without his irons was executed, which 

 prevented any more mischief. This ship 

 brought f6V the colony 



3 1,496 lbs. of beef; 



45,440 lbs. of pork, 



64,512 lbs. of flour, 



44 tons of lime-stone, 

 17 bales and 5 cases of clothing 

 and necessaries. 

 The Boddingtons' and Sugar-Cane both 

 sailed on the 13th. A mill for grinding corn 

 was invented by a convict named Wilkinson, 

 which was found to answer so well, that the 

 Lieutenant-Governor ordered the artificers and 

 a gang of convicts from Paramatta to assist in 

 making one, under Wiliamson's directions, on a 

 larger scale. A warrant of emancipation passed 

 the great seal for 23 convicts, on condition of 

 their entering into the New South Wales corps. 

 From Paramatta information was received, that 

 four people, in the night of the 15th, broke 

 into the house of a settler, (John Randall,) with 

 their faces and hands blackened, where with 

 bludgeons, they nearly murdered two men who 

 lived with him, and but for the activity and 

 resistance of these two, they would have ef- 

 fected their intentions; and the same account 

 said, that seven of those lately from Ireland had 

 absconded to the woods. On the 26th, a box 



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