WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 456, 28 August 1850, Page 4

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

We have Perth Papers to the end of June. The first batch of convicts had arrived, and three others were to airive in the couise of the year. Capt. Henderson, K-E" via the general superintendent of the convict establishment; Pr. Cbion, K.N., Surgeon; Mr. Dickson, principal oveiseer, and Mr. Manning, clerk ot works. The guard consists of enrolled pensioners. A building lor i convict barintk had been liired and the men are to be employed m the first instance in providing quailers for them&elvss and their officers, and then in forming a breakwater for the protection of Game's Roads The inhabitants are much pleased at this importation, and have great hopes that Swan River will soon take an important place amonp the Australian colonies. Addresses of thanks had been forwarded to the home Government. The blacks had committed several murders; in most cases upon their own countrymen who had become partiully civilized and were employed by the coloirsts, Three of them were found guilty of murder, and sentence of death was passed upon them ; one was executed, und the other two were reprieved after the ropes were put round their necks. The local news was veiy uninteresting to the gen. eial leader, and we see nothing worth extracting. — Sydney Herald, August 6.

Emigration. — The Rev C. J Abiabam, B D., Chaplain to the Bishop of New Zealand, on Tuesday" sailed for the scene of his labors. In the morning a farewell senico was held in the parish church of Stoke D-iinerel to celebrate the occasion. As a proof of Mr. Abraham's devotcdness, we may mention that he has taken the charge of the emigrant ship Lloyds, and will v>ntth over the spuHual mtere<ts of the passengeis. Attended by Mis. Abraham and friends, he went on boaid about two o'clock. As the anchor was beimr weighed, Mr. Abraham offered up some prayers, and the'parting benediction was pronounced by the Rev. W. 15. Flower. Mr. Abraham's foimer pupils, aided by other friends, having raised £1000 for the foundation of two scholarships iv the New Zealand College.— Plymoutk Paper.

Stham —The negotiation for a monthly steam comnication to the Australian colonies is understood to have been brought so neaily to a point with the Pen* insukr and Oriental Company that the whole obsiiclc to its immediate conclusion connisis in the willingness of the East India House to relinquish the tiausite of mail from Bombay to Suez, which has always been canied on by their own ships. The plan however by which the proposed Australian communication is to be brought into operation involve!, we believe, an entire re-arrangement of the mileage at present perlormed by the Peninsular and Oriental vessels, of which rearrangement the assumption of this branch of the service is an essential part. It is at present canieu on by the India House at an enormous outlay, towards which ihe Government contiibute i' 50,000 per annum, and the calculation is that by its hems trans r ened to puvate hunds a saving could be effected which wou'd not only allow of a fortnightly instead of a monthly mail to China, but a'so the establishment of the route toAustialia, without any cost additional to what ii alcady incurred. Indeed, it is alleged that the terms offered by the Penunular and Oiiental Company include the performance of a mileage of 330 000 mile* for a le»s outlay than is now incuried foi 70,000. With regard to the precise route tojbe adopted the conditions have notyetjtranspired, but it'is understood that it will be the westerly one— namely, from Singapore to Swan River, Adelaide, Fort Phillip, and Sydney, icturning thence, and calling at all the same ports on the wny back. A branch to Port Dalrymple, in Van Diemen's Land, is also supposed to be pau of the scheme, which will doubtless ultinoate'y, if not immediately, be extended to New Zealand.— Times, Match 26.