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acquainted, requiring their help at the rivers and their 
friendly assistance along the road. His ploughs, drays, 
bags of seed, and other implements and articles of 
bulk, were put on board the Sandfly and another 
schooner, in which the women of his family also pro- 
ceeded. 
On the 15th of May, an American trading-ship 
came in from Auckland. The long expected sale 
of the first town-lands had taken place, and twenty- 
six acres had realised the enormous sum of 21,000/. 
Considering the very small and purely land-jobbing 
population of the place, and the reasonable doubts 
as to whether a bona fide colonization of the neigh- 
bouring country would for many years give a real 
town value to these lots, the land-jobbers had started 
at a very high figure. The only other intelligence 
was that the Governor had begun his independent 
reign by gazetting Lieutenant Shortland as Colonial 
Secretary, and fixing his salary at 600/. per annum. 
END OF VOL. I. 
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