I receive with great gratification the Address which you have presented
to me.
In conformity with your request, I shall cause Medals of South
Australian Gold to be struck, in commemoration of the opening up of the
commerce and navigation of the river Murray.
I shall have great pleasure in conferring on Captain Cadell the Medal by
which the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislature desire to distinguish him
with honour, in having successfully accomplished the first commercial
steam voyage on the river Murray.
I concur with you in deeming this important event to be worthy of
permanent record in the annals of South Australia; and I shall cause a
commemorative medal to be placed conspicuously among the public
archives.
I shall not fail to seek Her Majesty's gracious permission to accept
from the Legislative Council the honour of one of the Medals for myself,
as a memorial of the happy fortune by which I have been privileged to be
a co-operator with the Council in opening up the steam navigation of the
river Murray, and thereby establishing a bond of commercial and social
union between three prosperous Colonies of Australia.