TO THE WESTWARD. 
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The very great importance of the undertaking as leading to 
results, and in all probability to discoveries, the benefits of which 
are at present unforeseen, but which, like the opening of the 
Murray to this Province, may pave the way to a high road from 
hence to Western Australia, will, it is hoped meet with that 
support from the public which undertakings of great national 
interest deserve, and which best evince the enterprise and well- 
doing of a rising colony. 
That Captain Grey, being about to embark for England, the 
Committee cannot allow him to quit these shores without express- 
ing their regret that his stay has been so short, and the sense 
they entertain of the great interest he has evinced in the welfare 
of the colony, and the disinterested support he has given an 
enterprise which is likely to lead to such generally beneficial 
results as that under consideration. 
Chas. Sturt, Chairman. 
Chas. Bonney, Secretary , 
LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED YESTERDAY. 
The Government of South Australia . £200 
His Excellency the Governor (absent at Port Lincoln) 
and the Colonists . £349.10.? 
Such was the state in which I found the question 
on my return from Western Australia. All had 
been done that was practicable, until answers were 
received from the other Colonies, replying to the 
applications for assistance and co-operation in the 
proposed undertaking. 
Having been always greatly interested in the ex- 
amination of this vast but comparatively unknown 
continent, and having already myself been frequently 
engaged in long and harassing explorations, it will 
not be deemed surprising that I should at once have 
