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and the next day they were punished, by being 

 sent up to Paramatta to hard labour. 



On the subject of these mad schemes, the 

 Governor addressed the convicts, and after- 

 wards published an order, pointing out the risk 

 which must attend such enterprises ; and said, 

 he was of opinion, that a few ignorant people 

 had been led to try them by the wicked designs 

 of some viler than themselves. 



The Irish convicts wl^> arrived in the last 

 ship shewing a propensity" to desert from work, 

 a party of soldiers were sent to Toongabbe, 

 there to remain during the harvest. 



Nine hundred bushels of the last year's crop, 

 where brought round in the Francis from the 

 Hawkesbury, and placed in the public store. 

 Than the appearance of the wheat of this season 

 nothing could promise better ; it had ripened 

 suddenly, owing to some heavy rains being 

 followed by hot weather. The military were 

 hired to assist in .reaping;, it being necessary to 

 lose no time in collecting the crops. 



James Wilson, who had for a long time 

 taken up his abode in the woods, surrendered 

 himself this month to the Governor's clemency. 

 He had been with the savages over different 

 parts of the country, and had submitted to have 

 his shoulders and breast scarified after their 

 custom. He appeared with no covering but aa 

 apron of a kangaroo's skin. 



The Governor knowing, from his former 

 habits, that if punished and sent to hard Labour, 





