NEW SOUTH WALES. 1513 



belonging to John Sparrow, (a convict,) by 

 trade a watchmaker, was broke open at the 

 hospital, and three watches stolen, one of which 

 belonged to an officer, who had employed Spar- 

 row to repair it, and an old man at the hospital 

 was at the same time robbed of eigj^t.. guineas 

 and some dollars, which he had saved to pay 

 his passage home. In a storm, on the 26th, 

 two boys ran to a tree for shelter, and the next 

 morning were found dead, being killed by light- 

 ning, and they were buried in one grave. This 

 was the first accident of the kind which had 

 happened in the colony. On the 29th, the 

 Fairy American Snow, arrived from Boston, in 

 New England, and was to proceed to the North- 

 West coast of America. On Thursday, No- 

 vcmber 7th, the Francis returned from Dusky 

 Bay. On Saturday, the 23d of November, the 

 first wheat issued from the store, and the pro- 

 duce of the country was delivered, and for the 

 first week, great inconvenience was sustained to 

 get it ground, but other mills were erected, 

 and this evil was of no long duration. The 

 wheat sown in April was this month reaped and 

 got in, which the Lieutenant-Governor agreed 

 to buy of all settlers to whom it belonged, at 10s. 

 per bushel. Guilty ignorance, every ready to 

 cherish erroneous notions, of escaping that 

 punishment which it deserves, by some flaw in 

 the administration of justice, offered to the 

 minds of the convicts a curious idea, which was, 

 that the Lieutenant-Governor, had not the power 

 of orderi ig a sentence of death to be executed^ so 



