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In Macquarie's time, not one convict in ten could be usefully employed; seven or eight years after, there was not a convict in the colony whose services would not be eagerly sought for at a good price by the squatters. This important change took place under Governors Brisbane and Darling, and was in a great measure due to those Governors; yet, strange to say, neither of them was ever popular.
"I've got another point for the defence," he muttered. "It's always best it's always best to keep the last point to the last." "Oh, Lord! Well, out with it! Out with it!" "Macquarie's dead! That that's what it is!"
Those rugged heights, which so long opposed the westward progress of the early colonists, have proved no insuperable barrier to the engineer; and the locomotive now slowly puffs up the steep inclines and drags its long line of heavily-laden trucks where Macquarie's road, with so much trouble, was carried in 1815.
See BURTON on Education and Religion in New South Wales, pp. 8, 9, 12, 16. We may add, by way of illustrating the regard paid to religious worship, even in Governor Macquarie's time, that Oxley's first expedition into the interior was permitted to set out from Bathurst on a Sunday! See his Journal, p. 3. Sunday, indeed, seems to have been a favourite starting-day with Mr. Oxley. See p. 37.
A fine view of the harbour and shipping is obtained from a part of the grounds where Lady Macquarie's chair a hollow place in a rock is situated; itself worth coming a long way to see.
Stiffner turned his back, and Barcoo spat viciously and impatiently. "Yes," drivelled the drunkard, "I've got another point for for the defence of my mate, Macquarie " "Oh, out with it! Spit it out, for God's sake, or you'll bust!" roared Stiffner. "What the blazes is it?" "HIS MATE'S ALIVE!" yelled the old man. "Macquarie's mate's alive! That's what it is!"
See Governor Macquarie's Report to Earl Bathurst, in Lang's New South Wales, vol. i. The next objects that demand our notice in Australia are the British colonies, and their present inhabitants.
"Then, according to you, Paganel," said Glenarvan, "this struggle is still going on in the provinces of Auckland and Taranaki?" "I think so." "This very province where the MACQUARIE'S wreck has deposited us." "Exactly. We have landed a few miles above Kawhia harbor, where the Maori flag is probably still floating."
This was too important a point to be left undecided, as upon it the question of the Macquarie's termination seemed to depend. Both Mr.
How could public religious worship be attended to, when, in the year after Governor Macquarie's arrival, 1810, a widely-scattered population of 10,452 souls, mostly convicts, were left in the charge of four clergymen?
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