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News extracts: Feb. 7, 1828: Poor harvests in Australia and Van Dieman's Land
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Alison Kilpatrick
Feb 7, 2012, 4:13:34 AM2/7/12
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Transcribed from the 17 June 1828 edition of The Newry Commercial
Telegraph newspaper:
New South Wales.
Letters from Sydney to the 7th Feb. have been received via Rio de
Janeiro, by the Alacrity from thence. The information they contain is
extremely distressing--the wheat harvest, as well as the grass and
vegetables, had totally failed, from continued drought and heat--the
former had risen to 12s. and even 15s.[per] bushel. This unfortunate
circumstance had obliged them to seek their supplies from the South
American ports, to which they despatched some vessels. The harvest had
also suffered at Van Dieman's Land nearly to an equal extent. Such had
been the influx of settlers into the colony, that no house, or even barn
could be procured. Trade wore a lamentable feature, and the quantity of
goods imported had been so extensive as to supply their wants for some
years, the sales of which had been attended with heavy sacrifices.
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Telegraph newspaper:
New South Wales.
Letters from Sydney to the 7th Feb. have been received via Rio de
Janeiro, by the Alacrity from thence. The information they contain is
extremely distressing--the wheat harvest, as well as the grass and
vegetables, had totally failed, from continued drought and heat--the
former had risen to 12s. and even 15s.[per] bushel. This unfortunate
circumstance had obliged them to seek their supplies from the South
American ports, to which they despatched some vessels. The harvest had
also suffered at Van Dieman's Land nearly to an equal extent. Such had
been the influx of settlers into the colony, that no house, or even barn
could be procured. Trade wore a lamentable feature, and the quantity of
goods imported had been so extensive as to supply their wants for some
years, the sales of which had been attended with heavy sacrifices.
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