WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 21 October 1857, Page 3

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

We ('Empire') have received our usual files of Perth papers to the 14th of August.

A report of the Executive Council of Western Australia on the Land Regulations makes the following recommendations in reference to the sale of waste lands :—

1. Reduction in price from 20s. per acre to ss. per acre for cash; 6s. per acre for credit. —2. Abolition of sale by auction arid a fixed price in lieu.—3. Minimum size of block for purchase to be forty acres.—4. In mode of payment.—s. Abolition of application fee.—6. Reduction of title deed fee to 20s. on all grants whatever.—7. !Free grants to emigrants on arrival.—B. In regard to remissions to naval and military officers. -Great quantities of rain had fallen lately, as appears from the subjoined statement:—"The continued heavy fall of rain for the last six weeks has completely saturated the country with water, and many parts this side of the hills are heavily flooded. The "wind continuing in the • west and northwest, prevents the free issue of - the immense body of water coming down, and a flood equal to that of August, 1847, may be expected. Yesterday morning the Guildford mail contractor reported he had great difficulty in crossing the Helena^ the bridge being under water, and the flood on the causeway across the flat reaching as high as his hone's back/ At the Perth Jetty at eight ■ o'clock yesterday morning, the water was-three feet above the usual level, the rise being calculated-to be two inches an hour, but •this lessened towards noon.— -Perth Paper.

The streets of Perth are being planted with trees, in order to afford a shelter from the rays of the'sim during the summer months. "Mr. GShenton provided the plants and planted them at liis'bwh expense, from the corner at Mr. Barnett's store, as far as the Boys' School. If these plants •canbesavedi from the attacks of mischieypus •I>6ys and hungry »ntmals; they will become "hot only an-tiriiaraent but also' a' grateful,shade in •ttie hot summer^days: We trust ■this."example ■willbe followed upiand that in a few'; years' the ■whole of the footpaths ift the town^wifi be similarly bordei el

*Fwb; aboriginals named respectively, Yaiungport'and Jeningtfirt,- convicted of -wilful murder

of an aboriginal, named Malachi at Toodyay, were condemned to death. The following address to the Secretary of State was in course of signature: "We the undersigned colonists of Western Australia, in reply to your request for an expression of public opinion as to the advisability of introducing Female Convicts into the Colony, beg to declare that we are entirely opposed to their introduction. We beg further to state that the recent vote of the Legislative Council cannot be considered, nor is it, an expression of public opinion on the subject.