WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 59, 22 November 1845, Page 4

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

The Branch of the Bank of Australasia established in Western Australia is to be withdrawn. The debts due to the Bank are stated at £18,000. It is quite evident that Governor Hutt is heartily tired of his office. Of the fact of his having tendered his resignation, and that it had been accepted by the home Government, •no doubt remained ; but who his Excellency's successor would be, was not even surmised in the colony. The population, notwithstanding the repeated immigrations, exhibits an aggregate of 4351 souls ; the acres in cultivation are about 5000, and of horses, cattle, sheep., goats and pigs, the colonists number very little short of a hundred thousand. This enumeration speaks very conclusively in favour of the pastoral capabilities of the colony. The Government expenditure lor 1844 exhibits the amount of £14,351 against colonial revenue of £7740, the difference being supplied from Parliamentary grants and other extra colonial -sources. If the Government sales, at £1 per acre, be any criterion of the availableness of the colonial arable lands, or of the general estimation in which the western settlements are bell, the index is a very un-flattering one, inasmuch as the total sales during the four years -have produced no more than £156. - The Admiralty had agreed to receive four hundred loads of Swan River timber, at prices ranging from £10 to £14 per load.