Message No. 24, from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to the
Legislative Council.
Lieutenant-Governor Sir Henry Young has the gratification to announce to
the Legislative Council the arrival, at the Goolwa, of the first
river-borne wool, the produce of the vast basin of the Murray.
In congratulating the Council on this auspicious commencement of the
steam navigation and commerce of the great River Murray, the
Lieutenant-Governor is happy to state that Captain Cadell's voyage
reached to one hundred and fifty miles beyond Swan Hill, a distance of
about fourteen hundred and fifty miles from the sea; and was also
extended to sixty miles up the Wakool--an important branch of the
Murray. The first cargo comprises wool of the Murray, the Darling, the
Murrumbidgee, and the Wakool Rivers.
H. E. F. YOUNG, Lieutenant-Governor.
On board the _Lady Augusta_ steamer,
Goolwa, October 14, 1853.
Address of the Legislative Council to his Excellency the
Lieutenant-Governor.
To His Excellency Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Knight,
Lieutenant-Governor of Her Majesty's Province of South Australia, &c.
&c.