NEW SOUTH WALES. 1 SQ 



I 9 ; d 



Hire of a boat to carry grain, per 



day, - - - 5 



If possible, to prevent the many robberies 

 committed by the convicts who were hitherto 

 suffered to wander about, it was ordered, that 

 none but officers, should travel without pass- 

 ports, which they were to shew to the officers 

 in the different districts, and those detected 

 travelling without, were to be imprisoned a 

 month. 



The continual repetitions of the most cruel 

 outrages, committed by the natives on the 

 settlers in the Northern farms, in one of which 

 they lately murdered a man and woman, com- 

 pelled the settlers to arm and follow them, 

 keeping up the pursuit all night; the next 

 morning they came near about 100 of them, 

 when the natives fled, leaving their plunder on 

 the ground. The pursuers continued to follow 

 them to the neighbourhood of Paramatta; when 

 fatigued, the settlers went into the town, and 

 were in return followed by the natives, with 

 Pe-mul-wy at their head. This fellow, with all 

 the brutal impudence of ignorance, threatened 

 to kill the first man that approached him, and 

 actually threw a spear at a soldier; in conse- 

 quence of which a discharge from the military 

 and settlers took place, by which 5 natives 

 were killed, and many wounded ; among the 

 latter was Pe-mul-wy, who was then brought 



