WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 13, 4 January 1845, Page 3

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

We have received files of papers from Perth} from the l>e'sibfag^Fttf*irtlXflfaVfrT£BS' of August. The value of imports during the year ended 31st March, 1844, is given as £46,880; the value of pxports as £13,609. From the official returns of the survey department we find the quantity of land surveyed during the year endeJ 31st March, 1844, was 383,646^ acres. The quantity of land under cultivation was 3858 acres, being an increase of 811 acres on the previous year. The quantity of stock of all descriptions was 87,940, the increase over the quantity of the previous year being 15,049. The fifteenth anniversary of the colony, notwithstanding the depressed state of every interest in the colony, was kept up with some spirit, balls, laces, and other public amusements, having been got up for the occasion. It appears from some remarks made by Governor Hutt in the Legislative Council, that he expects^ to be speedily recalled from the Government of Western Australia. The Legislative Council, previously to itsr breaking up on the 22nd August, had had under its consideration a series of resolutions, brought forward by the Colonial Secretary, P. Bjawn, Esq., the object of which was to affoc#|&B\e relief to the colony from its present''era|ipas;sment. The chief means of relief :^S|jMl;ed are alterations in the Crown Lands Actp|n'd a loan to be. raised in England of £100,000) to enable parties to -pay off mortgages, and to devote some few" thou-" * sands to the purposes of immigration. * "No--thing, however, appears "to have ¥een xlofreln the matter. . • ' ; The Western Australians are turning "tfieit^ attention.^ the export of timber to the Ma"v-_ ritius, also to the export of bark and numerous other articles which had hitherto been neglected. As the .stock and produce, with the means of transit, have of" late* much ericreased, and prices diminished) they are Jea?--gerly pursuing their uewly opened trade 'withthe Mauritius and Singapore, and have well' - grounded expectations of establishing a regular trade with India, where their sheep, salted fish, and potatoes have fout,d a ready and profitable trade. We do not observe any reports which would enable us to give an aeV count of We value of stock, &c. We observe that' about the latter end of May sheep were worth 10s., even of inferior description. Tbe whale fisheries in the bays appear to have been doing well ; but considerable jealousy appears to exist as to the Americans.-™ Sydney Emerald. ' '