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EARLY RECORDS OP PORT PHILLIP." 131 Friday, 28. At 9 E[a]in, Lt. Lords servants, retiirnd with 5 kan- garros from the opposite side of the river. At 5 p.m. Salmon returnd from Risdon with a large forest kangarro. At 11, while in bed, I heard the report of a gun. C.S., York. Saturday, 29. a.m. — At 8, Mr. Fosbrook, the commissary, informd me that his marquee was attempted to he robhd, but was prevented by his firing at them ; they had cut part of the marque, near a box of clothes, &c., &c. At 5 p.m. dind with Lit. Johnson. C.S., Wertem- berg. Sunday, 30. a.m. — The morning so very windy that divine service could not be performd. This morn two men began to cut down and burn off 2 acres of ground for me at my new garden. At 7 the wr. began to be very windy ; and at 10 a heavy gale came on, which increasd till near 12. C.S., Saxton. Monday, 1 Oct, a.m. — At 1 it blew a perfect hurricane ; many trees and the store tent upon Hunters Island was blown down. At 4 I expected every moment that my marquee would have been blown down. This day the brickmakers began to make some. At 10 the wr. began to moderate. At the parade of the Royal Marines this morn the Articles of War were read by Capt. Lieut. Sladden, acting as adjutant. After the parade a court martial was held, by order of Lieut. Coll. Col., of the Loyal Marines, upon a Private Woolley. At 5 p.m. the military assembled at the parade, and marched off to the place of punishment. Wooley was sentenced to receive 200 lashes for drinking with a convict named Plunket, each of which men received one 100 each. N.B. — The Lieut. Gov. and Lt. Col., of the Royal Marines, the same morn breakfasted with a convict and his wife, by the name of Mathew Powers ; she always lives at the Col. table. C.S., Fenshaw. Tuesday, 2. a.m. — At 5 I went up with my boat near Risdon to Mr. Millers farm to kill ducks, &c. ; had bad luck. At 5 p.m. returnd ; killd only one duck. Dind with Lt. Johnson. C.S., Hope. Wednesday, 3. a.m. — The day remarkably fine. At 4 p.m. all the civil and military officers dind with me. Captain Sladden, Lieuts. Johnson and Lord, Messrs. Harris, J anson, Bowden, Fosbrook, Humphrey. The dinner as follows : — Fish, kangaroo soup, roast kid — saddle, roast kangarro — saddle, 2 fowls pellewed with rice and bacon, rost pig.' C.S., Colnet. Thursday, 4. a.m. — At 10 Groves and self went in my boat down the river a fishing, but had very bad success. At 1 while we were there the Lt. Governor ordered the guns to be scaled on Hunter's Island. In the eve returnd, and Lt. Johnson dind with me. Friday, 5. a.m. — At 12 all the civil and military officers met at Mr. Bowden's to consult about a plan of building a subscription room, when we all wrote to the Lt. Governor to prove the plan to him. At 1 the Lt. Gov. and Mrs. Powers went to the farm in his boat. C.S., Loring. • Note. — The remainder of the leaf (which it may be presumed contained originally the enumeration of the wines drank, &c.), has been cut away, thus destroying very nearly an entire entry on the other side of the 6th ; and the whole of the next leaf has also been removed, which must have contained the entries of the 7th, 8th, and 9th, all of which are wanting. [C.] i2