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 FOR SALE AT THE STORES OF THE UNDERSIGNED Perth. IRISH PORK, ditto Beef, Hams, Flour Oatmeal, Potatoes, Onions, Rice, Lard, Sugar, Tea, Raisins, Jamaica Rum, Brandy, Prime Gin, Wines, London Porter, Tobacco, Segars, Snuff, Pipes, Cape Skins, Slops, Shoes, Cloth Caps, Felt and other Hats, Combs, xiñ and Earthenware, Starch, Stone Blue, Pearl Barley, Vermicelli, Mustard, Pickles, Ketchup, Soy Salad Oil, Salt, Pepper, and Spices, Stationery, Playing Cards, Shot, Copper, Caps, Corks, &c. &c, &c. ALSO Coffee, Soap, India Mats, Split Peas, Bacon, wholesale and retail. LEROUX, CARTER, & Co Weekly Cargo Boat to Perth. J. LUKIN respectfully informs the Public, that his boat, the Fanny will leave Fremantle every Thursday for Perth, and will return every Saturday morning, wind and weather permitting. -Goods landed at Perth, at 30s. per Ton, carriage at Fremantle included. Under half a ton-charge will be made according to the size of the package. %* Timber, Bricks, Hay, and colonial produce conveyed to Fremantle on the most reasonable terms. Fremantle, 11th April, 1833 ON SALE AT FREMANTLE Flour in bags and barrels Pork Onions Potatoes Rum Oatmeal Starch Split Peas Sein Twine Mustard Arrow Root Hams and Bacon Slops Bullocks Bows and Chains Bran and Pollard Tripe in small kegs Salmon in barrels, &c, &c. ALSO 150 Fine wool SHEEP. F. Downing. NOTICE. Fremantle, April 6th-Arrived the Sandwich Island Schooner, Auranzau, Capt. R. Jordon from Singapore consigned to Mr. Wm. Lamb with the following cargo, viz : Beef, pork, sugar, rice, green and black teas, in large chests, and caddy boxes, ¡ coffee, sugar candy, old brandy in cases, j segars, nankins, patent boat cloaks, manila hats, black pepper, sago, manilla biscuit, coloured floor mats, &c small! cordage, &c. &c. &c. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Merope sailed for the Mauritius via the Straits of Balli, on Friday the 12th instant. We were in error as to her being in Gages Roads on Saturday last. Lying in Cockburn Sound.-The Ellen Government Schooner, the Monkey, and the Au ranzu. DIED At Perth, on the 17th Instant, George the infant son of Henry Sutherland, Esq., Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils. TO CORRESPONDENTS John Butler s letter to us upon the subject of our declining to publish certain documents unless they were properly "authenticated?* is written in too means and contemptible a spirit, to bedeserv ing of our notice. The Documents have been delivered by his order to Mr. Smythers of Fremantle. If Mr. JVeavell addresses us upon a public subject, without marking his letter as private, we cannot be answerable for the consequences The inaccuracies in the letter, arose from its altogether escaping the notice of the compositor, although corrected in the proof-sheet, which will be apparent to those who understand these matters. If Mr. TV. wishes it, what he calls his private communication, shall be published verbatim, the public will theil be able to judge what his sent ments were. THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL To make room for the Governmen notices on the first page, we have been under the necessity of circumscribing our local intelligence. An affray took place at Fremantle, on Wednesday last, between Mr. Lewis and Mr. Clark, arising out of disputed accounts. It appeared at the examination on Thursday, before G. Leake, Esquire, that some hard words mutually exchanged, produced from Mr. Lewis a hard blow; tor which assault he was bound over to keep the peace, himself in £40., and two sureties in £20 each. As the affair is likely to come before the Commissioner of the Civil Court, and a Special Jury, we refrain from giving the particulars of the case. The present wholesale prices at Fremantle of the articles recently imported, are as follow : Flour, 3i d. per lb. by the ton; Potatoes, £25. per ton; Onions, 9d. per lb.; Oatmeal, 5d. per lb.; Starch, 2s. per lb.; Pork, £7. per barrel; Rice, 3d. per lb. The retail prices at Perth, are, Flour, öd. per lb. 13s. per gallon; Brandy 15 (to 20s.), according to the quality. Gin 16s., Tea, 4s. 6d. per lb.; Sugar 5d., Coffee 15d., Soap 2s., Tobacco 15d. A personage of the name of Collins, has thought proper to insult us in the pnblic street, because we reported his pig case too accurately. We would advise him to restrain the " humour whiph his mother gave him," especially when he is drunk. Considerable anxiety wap excited during yesterday for the safety of Messrs. A. H. and G. R Stone, from their having left their residence on Thursday afternoon after giving orders to their servant to prepare their dinner by 5 o'clock, and no tidings of them being heard. Mr. Leroux informed by the servant that they had not returned at the hour they had appointed, accompanied by Mr. Purkis went in search of them, and found the boat, in which it was presumed they had taken their departure, anchored on the bank of the river opposite Perth. After scouring the bush in the. neighbourhood they returned and reported the circumstances, which created a general alarm, the natives as usual, bearing the imputation of having murdered them. In confirmation of this supposition Mr. Phillips arrived from the Canning in the course of the day, and stated confidently that from the time he left the Canning there appeared no probability of their having reached any settlement; this increased^ the anxiety and a search party, directed by Captain Ellis, visited the spot in the neighbourhood where the boat was found, and fell in with an old native woman, who had been speared, which further strengthened the suspiscion, and conclusions of a. most melancholy nature were drawn. The highest degree of sympathy was excited and the greatest promptitude shewn to enquire into so calmaitous an event. Volunteers started from all quarters to " scour the bush, a spirit which cannot be too highly commended; To the great wonderment however ofthose who " sorrowed as they who had no hope " about 7 o'- clock in the evening, the Gentlemen walked into the town, and received the congratulations of their friends, for what-they knew not-having merely paid a visit to a friend on the Canning, and been detained longer than they expected. The mistake seems to have originated w ith the black servant, who, it now appears was distinctly told that they would not return until the following' morning. We shall take further notice of this occurrence in our next. The farmers have been calling of late for a guarantee from the Government, that the Commissariat stores shall be opened next season, for the reception oftheir surplus wheat at a fixed, remunerating price; this has not the appearance of ' ruin irremediable ruin ' which the Courier predicts will be the late of a colony deprived of the wholesome influence of convict labour. (from the Hobart Town Courier) ' If any argument, during the present state of things, could suffice to enforce our oft repeated theme of economy on our readers, it would be drawn from that daily more and more ominous proposition of His Majesty's Government, to cease any longer to transport offenders to these colonies. The result that would attend such a measure is too awful tocontemplate That it would bring ruin, irremediable ruin on the colony, and prove deeply injurious to the mother country, is but too certain. We assure the reader it shall not be our faults if the Government permits itself to fall into so great an error as this would be. No plan that ever was devised since the world began for the disposal of offenders, can equal that now in practice in Van Diemen's Land, can a Gaoler or keeper, or whoever he may be, or any number of such officers, ever accomplish what the settler does for the convict? Will, the gaoler take the prisoner into his family, watch over his conduct, direct his actions, subvert his propensities, teach and compel him to regulate and subdue his passions, and never leave him till he has made a useful if not a really good man of him. The settler knows if he does not do this he will lose the mans services and his own individual interests must suffer. We shall enlarge on this subject in a future number. Meantime we would call upon the Government in the midst of the present depressin, to open the Commissariat stores for the reception of Wheat immediately, so that the settler may have au opportunity of tendering, and not be obliged to dispose of his crop at a lower rate to middle parties who. will hold it on in order to tender instead of him at a higher rate, in April or May. The Government indeed would be a gainer by the change, for wheat is as low as it can be expected to be, and as the »tores are now empty we trust his Excellency will exercise his usual compassionatediscretion in ordering them to be filled.
 * Pork lid, Beef 6d., Kum,