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erted themselves for the good of the colony, 

 as the various officers have been found to do, it 

 is hardly possible to calculate to what degree 

 of importance the country might by this time 

 have arrived at. 



When the time shall arrive, that a more regu- 

 lar communication is kept up between New 

 South Wales and the mother country, which 

 there is every reason to expect will shortly take 

 place, in consequence of the representations 

 which Governor Hunter promised on leaving 

 the colony to make to Government, there can 

 be no doubt but many advantages will result to 

 both countries, though more particularly to 

 this ; and should it be thought proper by Go- 

 vernment to suffer some honest families to 

 come out as settlers, there can be no doubt but 

 it would prove most highly beneficial to them- 

 selves and the settlements, as that spirit of 

 monopoly which has in several instances mani- 

 fested itself, would by that means be broken, 

 if not entirely overcome, as there would be a 

 greater number ready to buy the cargos that 

 might arrive for sale, and consequently an in- 

 creased number of retailers, which would oc- 

 casion a necessity of selling the articles at a 

 more moderate price. 



The want of a regular attendance on divine 

 worship, of which nSticehas been so frequently 

 taken in the course of the History is now 

 nearly removed ; and I am happy to be able to 

 gay, that the New Church, built at Paramatta, 



