OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



tion againft the natives, were made a very different ufe of, an order 

 was given, recalling them, and prohibiting any convicts from going 

 out with arms, except thofe who were licenfed game-killers. 



The Clergyman complaining of non-attendance at divine fervice, 

 which, it muil be obferved, was generally performed in the open air, 

 alike un flickered from wind and rain, as from the fervour of the fum- 

 mer's fun, it was ordered that three pounds of flour mould be de- 

 ducted from the ration of each overfeer, and two pounds from that 

 of each labouring convict, who mould not attend prayers once on 

 each Sunday, unlefs fome reafonable excufe for their abfence fhould 

 be afligned. 



In this month one convict was executed for meep-ftealing. The 

 prefervation of (lock was an object of fo much confequence to the 

 colony, that it had become indifpenfably neceflary to protect it by 

 every means in their power. Had any lenity been extended to this 

 offender, it might have been the caufe of many depredations being 

 made upon the flock, which it was hoped his punimment would pre- 

 vent. 



The female convicts were now employed in making the flops for 

 the men, which had been fent out unmade. Each woman that could 

 work at her needle had materials for two fhirts given her at a 

 time ; and, while fo employed, was not to be taken for any other 

 labour. 



The ftorehoufe which was begun in July was finimed during this 

 month. Its dimenfions were, one hundred feet by twenty-two. 



At Rofe Hill the convicts were employed in conflructing the new 

 town which had been marked out, building the huts, and forming the 

 principal ftreet. The Governor, who perfonally directed all thefe 

 works, caufed a fpot of ground for a capacious garden to be allotted 

 for the ufe of the New South Wales corps, contiguous to the fpot 

 whereon his Excellency meant to erect barracks for that corps. 



The whale that occafioned the overturning of a boat, by which 

 three lives were loft, had never found its way out of the harbour^ 



but, 



