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one of the missionaries. The Government give £20. 
per annum, and the settlers of the neighbourhood 
100 bushels of wheat, and some mutton. Six or 
eight children are expected to be lodged and 
boarded at this school, with the means at present 
existing. 
Besides the establishment of schools, there is a 
Protector resident in Adelaide to take the manage- 
ment of the aboriginal department, to afford medical 
assistance and provisions to such of the aged or 
diseased as choose to apply for them, and to remu- 
nerate any natives who may render services to 
the Government, or the Protectorate. At Moo- 
runde, upon the Murray, the natives are mustered 
once a month by the Resident magistrate, and two 
pounds and a half of flour issued to each native who 
chooses to attend. This is occasionally done at Port 
Lincoln, and has had a very beneficial effect. Once 
in the year, on the Queen’s birthday, a few blankets 
are distributed to some of the Aborigines at Ade- 
laide, Moorunde, Encounter Bay, and Port Lincoln, 
amounting in all to about 300. Four natives are 
also provisioned by the Government as attaches to 
the police force at different out-stations, and are in 
many respects very useful. 
Exclusive of the Government exertions in behalf 
of the Aborigines, there are in the province four 
missionaries from the Lutheran Missionary Society 
at Dresden, two of whom landed in October 1838, 
and two in August 1840. Of these one is stationed 
