SYDNEY. [From the New Zealander, July 17.]
The Australasian League- held a meeting in Sydney on the 30th ult., at which 1,800 persons, — including a number of ladies, then introduced for the first time at the League meetings — were present. The immediate object was to receive and welcome the ' President, Mr. Cowper, on his return from the conference of Delegates at Hobart Town. Resolutions were enthusiastically adopted, — first, welcoming Mr., Cowper ; secondly, thanking the Executive Council of the colony for' their moral courage in reminding Earl Grey of the pledges which he had violated in relation to the convict question ; thirdly, congratulating the colonists and the Queen on that obnoxious minister's resignation of office ; and finally, disclaiming any Anti British policy, but declaring that, "at any sacrifice," the discontinuance of transportation must be effected. Coals had risen to a price which was severely felt in Sydney. A few months since they oould have been obtained in any quantity at 12s. per ton ; now they can be had only with difficulty at 50s. ' Both private families and public bodies appear to have neglected layins: in a store when it might have been done easily and cheaply, and the Herald mentions that the "man-of-war stationed at Port Jackson to be used in case of urgency, when (after lying idle for six months) she was wanted to proceed in seach of a wreck, and had no coals on board nor none in store, and it took her nearly a week to coal, after it was determined she should proceed on her voyage." The Gas "Company alone had shown foresight enough to have laid up a supply for twelve months. The Australian Agricultural Company was blamed for not providing against the emergency ; but as the Company has no longer any monopoly of working coal, it seems unfair to complain of them more than of other proprietors of mines. Scarcity of labour is confessedly the main cause of the difficulty, many of the workmen having gone to the gold field, and those who remained refusing to work without a considerable increase of wages. A public meeting had been held, and a committee appointed to take such steps as might appear advisable. A Zoological Society was about to be formed at Sydney. Steps towards its establishment were resolved upon at a public meeting of ladies and gentlemen, at which Chief Justice Stephen presided.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 735, 18 August 1852, Page 3
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397SYDNEY. [From the New Zealander, July 17.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 735, 18 August 1852, Page 3
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