SWAN RIVER.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume 19, Issue 62, 19 June 1841, Page 3

SWAN RIVER.

Our dates are lo the' 20th March. The settlers were again looking to Calcutta for a supply of labour. The recent improvement of the position of the Colony in England will doubtless henceforward secure them a moderate increase of the working classes. They were about to seek a market in India for the salt, collected by the native prisoners on Rottnest Island.

The Commissaii.it Office had been broken into and robbed 'of £100.

Austramnd. — We have had recent arrivals r-nr-i tlic Company's establishment, but no j'jtuuiit of the promised emigrants; we believe they were not expected uniil the end of this mouth. Several of our settlers have paved the way for them, they will, consequently, experiencejbiu little of the bush life, comparatively, if they are prepared to pay for the removal of obstacles. We wish the emigrants well, and \ould advise them, but we know the advice .» -mid be thrown away. All new emigrants expect to have their own " obstitute course," it is an independence they consider they have paid for, and, consequently, their due. Let them indulge in this transient pleasure; but, after the enjoyment of their frolic, thoy had better listen to the sober reason of thuse who }>aye gone through the saire difficulties, who Know the consequences of trusting Loo much to headstrong opinions, and may advise them faithfully from experience. The disembarkation of the settlers at Australind is referred to here as a matter of joke, and parties of pleasure are forming to welcome the new comers. Such a visit would revive the reeolleclions of our older settlers to a remembrance of the pleasant recreation of sleeping under a tree, or lodging in a box. *"unny, truly, but decidedly inconvenient — Perth Gazette.

There is a great increase in the number of advertisements and the variety of subjects treated in the papers. Altogether the appearance of the papers may be taken as an indication of greatly increased energy and progress at Swan River.

The children of the natives were b^ing put out in service lo various persons. The paper describes their progress as satisfactory. A boy in the printing office, folded and prepared all the papers for the address.

Colonial Revenue. — Our Colonial chest contains, at the present moment, between 6 and 7,000 A, hard cash, drawn out oi the money market for duties and purchases of land. In so small a community, this residuum of our circulating medium leaves but few floating assets. The Directors of the Bank complain most bitterly of the want of specie, and every possible contrivance is resorted to in order induce those who have deposited not to witlidiaw it. — Perth Gazette.

S*LE OF TOWN ALLOTMT.XTS '>T PeHTH. — Oil Wednesday las*, five allotmftits were sold by public sale by the Government, at from «CiO to £18 each. These are river-side allotments, adjoining the flats at the east end of Perth ; when the causeway is opened, it is anticipated these allotments will rise considerably in value. — Ibid. Streets — 13< it. dings. — The irregularity of the streets of Perth has long been the subject of remavk, but :.l;is offensive eye-sore is now under revision, and the Surveyor-General is now working out a task imposed upon him by the incompetency of the early surveyors, in a manner which will exempt him from any charge of giving " here, too little, there, too nuich." As far as we can learn, the streets originally laid out — in width 93 feet — are to be reduced to the width of 66 feet. The alteration will give a greater or lesser frontage land to most of the allotments in the high street, or St. George's Terrace, but it will, in very few instances, diminish the- size of the grant; where this diminution may occur, ample compensation is offered on the side lines. — Ibid.

" The natives appear equally opposed to the Europeans in all the Australian Colonies. In those where they have been well treated, as well as in those where they have really great cause to complain of cruelty. -A good deal of loss on farms had been occasioned by bush fires; and the settlers were recommended, as a means of safety, invariably to clear the bush from around thebuilding for a distance of 200 yards. There are a great many Government notices, most of them have reference to destroying the evil consequences of the old grievous system of .free grants, and the replacing it by the introduction of the Wakefield system — a fixed price '.'or land.