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mined to trust to nature, nor did he trust in 

 vain. Being seen from time to time for se- 

 veral weeks, walking about with the spear 

 still unmoved ; but at last information was 

 brought to the colony that his wife had fixed her 

 teeth in the wood and drawn it out ; after 

 which he recovered, and was able again to go 

 into the field, His wife War-re- weer shewed 

 by an uncommon attention her great attach- 

 ment to him. The Sovereign sailed on the 

 27th for Bengal. 



At Sydney, an attempt being made to steal a 

 cask of pork from the pile of provisions before 

 the store-house, the whole was removed into 

 one of the old marine barracks. 



At Hawkesbury an extraordinary phoenome- 

 non occurred. Four farms on the creek named 

 Ruse's Creek, the crops on all of which were 

 ripe, and prodigiously fine, were totally cut up 

 by a fall of large flakes of ice. This memo- 

 rable shower passed in a direction North- 

 West, taking such farms as fell within its 

 course. The effect was extraordinary ; the wheat 

 then standing was beaten down, the ears cut ofl^ 

 and the grain threshed out. Of the Indian 

 corn the large thick stalks were broken, and the 

 cobs found lying at the roots. A man who was 

 distant from a house was glad to take shelter in 

 the hollow of a tree. The side of the trees, 

 on that part of the race-ground which it crossed, 

 that were opposed to its fury, appeared as if 

 large shot had been discharged against them. 

 Jhe two succeding days were mild ; notwith- 



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