# The Perth gazette, and independent journal of politics and news/Volume 5/Number 227

The Perth Gazette, AND INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND NEWS
| No. 227, Vol. 5 | FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1852 | Price[ | PER QUARTER-SIX SHILLINGS —SINGLE NUMBER-SIXPENC |
For the Mauritius.
THE fine fast-sailing barque, HENRY WOOLLEY, Captain Windus. For freight or passage apply to the Commander, or to
J. W. DAVEY, Agent, Fremantle,
Or
SHENTON, Perth.
Fremantle, March 29,1852.
To Shippers of Horses for India.
A VESSEL from Van Diemen's Land, shortly expected to call at Bunbury and Fremantle, on her voyage to Calcutta, offers an excellent opportunity for shipping horses, for the Indian market, as she will have about 15 vacant stalls, to secure which early application must be made to
G. SHENTON.
For Calcutta.
THE Schooner JOSEPH MANOOK, (if not previously sold), will proceed to the above port immediately after her arrival from South Australia. For freight or passage apply to Mr Hagger, Perth.
For Sale,
THE fast sailing A 1 teak built Schooner, Joseph Manook, 115 tons; has just been newly coppered, and is fitted with tanks for holding 2,000 gallons of water. For further particulars apply to Mr Hagger, Perth.
FOR freight or charter to any part of the world, the fine fast-sailing brigantine "Leander." For particulars apply to Captain Johnston, on board, or
J. BATEMAN, Fremantle.
Or
W. & R. HABGOOD, Agents,
Perth.
NOTICE
ALL partis having claims against the firm of Harwood and Neck, are requested to forward the same for payment, before the 26th of April 1852, as the partnership will be dissolved on the above day. H. & N. will not hold themselves respon sible for firm accounts after the above date
HENRY SAW
BEGS respectfully to inform his Friends and the Public generally, that he has OPENED the Premises lately occupied by Mr. Francisco, in Hay Street. Perth, as a
GENERAL STORE,
and hopes by perseverance and strict attention to business to merit a share of the public patronage. H. S. invites a personal inspection of his Stock. The following are a few of the articles of which it consists: Delaine Dresses, Embroidered Coburg ditto, Striped and Figured Alpacas, Long Wool Shawls, Gala Plaids, Huckaback, Chintz, Bed Ticking, Twilled Shirting, Dungaree, Unbleached Calico, Mixed Casimere for Trousers, Men's Lambs "Wool Shirts, Merino and Blue Serge do., Moleskin Trousers, Felt Hats.
Currants, Raisins, Loaf Sugar, Dutch Cheese, Robinson's Groats and Barley, SARDINES IN OIL, Salad Oil, Bottled Fruits, Spices, Prepared China Ginger, TOBACCO, American Clocks, Chairs, Buckets, Gutta Percha do., Wooden Boxes in nests, Glass Lamps, Solar do., Japanned do., Tumblers, Cups and Saucers' American Axes with handles, Hatchets, Shingle Hammers, Claw do., Mortice Locks, Hand and Pit Saw, Iron and Wood Files, Knives and Forks, Butchers' Steels Spring Bolts, Butt Hinges, Screws, assortment children's Toys, <&c, &c.
N.B. H. S. having received from England a Patent Apparatus for Roasting Coffee, enables him to offer for sale SUPERIOR ROASTED COFFEE, in which the aromatic properties of the berry are fully retained.
Ex Henry Woolley.
ON SALE at the Stores of the Undersigned—
DRESSES-Norwich, Lindamira, balzarine, barege, challé, black alpacha lustre, delaine, printed cashmere in the piece
DRAPERY & MILLINERY-Silk velvet, white and coloured Persian, silks, silk neck tics, black-and,colored silk neck and handkerchefs, velvet and other trimmings for dresses, green and blue gossamer
White and black blond falls Ladies' worked collars French stays
Silk and cotton parasols and umbrellas
Prints, chintz furniture, damask table cloths, bed ticking, white dimity, knitting cotton, lawns, Irish linen, huckabuck, brown holland, hosiery and laces
Orleans, Cobourg, and alpacha cloths Ladies' dress caps and flowers, shawls French ribbons and fancy neckties
Gimps, braid, fringes, back and (white crapes, muslin curtains
Muslin linings
Blankets, flannels, white and grey, calicoes long cloths, and shirting
Barnsbury check and military drill
Printed holland
Dunstable and Tuscan hats and bonnets
Infant's black beaver hats and plumes
Black silk coat and waistcoat buttons .
Printed Venetian window blinds
CLOTHING-Trousers-White nand coloured drill, pilot cloth, gambroon, check moleskin, and drab cord
Coats-alpacha, pilot cloth, Chesterfield, black summer cloth, Forester, Elgin, and Carmichael paletots
Scotch caps, and boys' fashionable cloth caps
Blue serge, Stockport, regatta, and white shirts
HARDWARE-Plated candlesticks Foster's spades and grafting tools Fussell's scythes, sickles, reaping hooks, hay knives, sheep-shears, steelyards Barrow wheels, spokeshaves, cart traces and rack bands, iron spoons, brass-lock cocks, locks, bolts, cross and garnett hinges screws, frame pullies, spindles, gimlets
MISCELLANEOUS-Gunpowder and percussion caps
Soap, sperm and composition candles
Window glass, currants, Irish butter, rope of sizes, scythe stones, broomheads and brushes, pearl barley, groats, bath bricks, salad oil, lucifers, tapioca, corks, washleather, ladies' and gent's india rubber overshoes
G. SHENTON.
Perth: St George's Terrace and Hay-st
TO BE LET, With immediate possession,
THAT SPLENDID FARM known as the
Dandalup Homestead,
On the River Murray, containing about 300 acres within post and rail fence, 70 acres of which has been under tillage, with the right of run for stock over all the Dandalup Estate, which contains above 10,000 acres. The above is accessible by water carriage and has stock yards, sheds, barns, and every convenience.
For further particulars apply (if by letter, post paid) to W. E. Oakley, Pinjarrah April 5,1852.
On Sale at the Stores of the under signed,
NOW LANDING from the Henry Woolley, Mary, and Leander:
Dunbars well-known superior Brown and Pale Cognac Brandy, in hogsheads and quarter casks (in bona).
Ditto Brown Sherry in quarter casks.
Abbott's Ale and Stout in hogsheads.
Gunter & Co.'s Jams, Jellies, Bottled Fruits, Mustard, Sauces, Pickles, and Vinegar, in cases.
Tea, in 25 catty boxes.
Sugar, in bags, about 80 to 901bs. Superior Coffee,*&., &.
LIONEL SAMSON.
Perth, April 12, 1852.
Just arrived ex "Mary."
WELLINGTON, Clarence, and Blucher boots; shoes Doeskin and tweed coats
Silk and cloth waistcoats, Oxford and Scotch plaids
Ladies' and Children's boots and shoes Blue serge, regatta, white and striped shirts'
Duck trousers, blankets and rugs Black and white thread
Black silk neck and cotton handkerchefs Prints and calicoes, women and men's cotton hose
Black and felt hats, Glengarry caps
Black and red currants, raspberries, damsons, bottled fruits
French capers, cayenne pepper, assorted sauces
Oatmeal, pearl barley
Lemon and orange peel, allspice, macaroni
Zante currants, Muscatel and Elms raisins
Turkey figs, patent barley and groats
Sardines in oil
NEGROHEAD TOBACCO
Loaf sugar, cheese
Cups and saucers, tin teapots, japanned sugar pots
Bread and baking tins, tin and copper tacks
Double and single-barrel guns, pistols
Cart and rider's whips, iron wire
Sheet iron, copper sheets, shingle and assorted nails
Canvas, corn sacks, Europe rope, white cod lines
Boat anchors, chains
Wheat andvfiour sieves, cart traces, shot belts
Shot, girth webbing, horse collars and chains
Garden rakes, square and round iron
ALSO, —
Brandy, Port Wine, Sherry, Draught and Bottled Ale and Porter, superfine kiln-dried English Flour, &c., &c,.
FREDERICK CROFT.
Perth and Fremantle.
Ex "Henry Wooley."
NOW Landing ex Henry Woolley, and for sale at the Stores of the undersigned: Vineyard Proprietors' brandy in hhds., qr. casks, and cases, West India rum, Booth's Old Tom, hollands, champagne, and sherry in cases, bottled beer.
Butter in jars, Irish pork, split peas, oatmeal, currants, muscatel raisins, fine American flour in barrels, window glass of all sizes, putty, paints, sheet lead, iron and lead pumps, window sashes in frames, moulded and plain doors.
Negrohead Tobacco
IRONMONGERY, consisting of butt hinges and garnett ditto, latches, locks, bolts, &c, &c, nails of all sizes.
Whiting, earthenware of all kinds, iron bedsteads, plated goods, hosiery, drapery, slops, canvas, boots and shoes, corn sacks, carpeting, rugs, gentlemen's hats and ladies' bonnets, &c, &c.
J. W. DAVEY.
Ex Henry Woolley & Joseph Manook
ON SALE by the Undersigned, St George's Terrace, Perth:
A good assortment of Drapery, Millinery, and Bonnets.
ALSO, Indian Goods, consisting of—Silks, Embroidered Muslins, Shoes, Baskets and Boxes, and numerous Fancy Articles.
M. HUTTON.
March 25,1852.
On Sale, ex " Will Watch."
AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT of very superior
Saddles, Bridles, and Martingales,
of every description,
C. BIBRA.
Now landing, ex "Will Watch."
WHITE, blue, red, scarlet, and spotted flannel; printed druggets, blankets, rugs, horse cloths, wrappers, fine and coarse cloth, a large assortment of accouna books and stationery, barrels of finest kiln-driff English flour, &c, &c, &c.
IRONMONGERY-Chaise carts with Collinson's patent axles, steel anvils and vices, a large assortment of round and square iron, iron wheel barrows, potatoe forks, galvanized water buckets, spades and shovels, socket ditto, ship's hearth, cottage ranges, mining jumpers, wedges, crow bars, shot pouches and steans, paper clips and files, razors, brass and japanned bramah night latches, fish, hooks, enamelled water pans, pewter basons, mining hammers, American nail hammers, iron squares, garden rakes, spokeshaves, string boxes, needles, japanned ware, copper tacks, copying press, today and copper kettles, hand saws, hay and chaff-cutting knives, shingle and other nails, gimblets, dog traps, smith's bellows, door locks, Bramah locks with catch keys; door knockers, roasting jacks, garden shears, boilers, saucepans, stew pans, digesters, coffee mills, cross-cut and pit sawfiles, carpenters' tools, fish kettles, camp kettles, barrow wheels, maul rings, ox chains, house bells and furniture, farriers' knives, furnace boilers, iron mangers, preserving pans, spittoons, oil pumps, balance weights, steelyards, Italian irons, sets shoemakers' tools, shower baths, sponging pans; enamelled frying pans and gridirons, ship and Stable lanterns, áxesj shingling hatchets, shell and screw augers plasterers' trowels, yoke irons, stone hammers and handles, horse rasps, pit saws spring steel, cutlery, sheet iron, perforated zinc, gauze wire, &e., &c,
Tinware-Solder, zinc milk pails,pepper boxes, ewers and basins, water jugs, candlesticks, japanned tea trays, pudding pans, Dutch ovens, candle and flour boxes, flour scoops, meat hasteners, funnels, dripping pans, American ovens, cooks' sieves, door porters, Tea services, spoons, forks, gold and silver pencil cases, &c, &c.
SADDLERY.-Sets of gig harness, ladies' and gentlemen's saddles, bridles, bits, panels, spurs, buckles, girths, martingales, &c, &c.
TOBACCO,-Cavendish and leaf.
CLOTHING-Striped, guernsey, wool, and other shirts, socks, stockings, straw and wide-awake hats, cotton and woollen drawers, &c, &c.
Miscellaneous-Papier Mache wares, an assortment of Drugs, champagne, claret, Maderia, sherry, and port, in casks, and bottles, Demerara rum, Geneva, stationery, playing cards, newmusic, an assortment of glass and crockery ware, anchors, cables, timber and ox chains, butt, T, rising H, and flat hinges; carbines, rifles, blacksmith's tools, stocks and dies, frying pans, bits and braces with screw augurs to each, mason's trowels, cow bells, gate hooks and staples, tacks, ox bows, oval pots and covers, camp ovens and covers, latch handles and catches, cross bolts, chain ditto, French ditto, barred ditto, brass hat and coat pins, hat hooks, blind furniture, brass screw hooks, smoothing, jack, and trying planes, plough ditto, padlocks, pit, cross-cut, and hand saws; blued iron back ditto, cast steel billet web ditto, pit, cross-cut, and hand saw files; travelling cases, finger plates, boot webbing, spring balances, steel, wool screw with lever, iron barrows and barrow wheels iron mangers with partitions, iron pig troughs, iron hay racks, an assortment of riding whips, mixed pickles, Walnuts, onions cauliflowers, chow chow, assorted sauces, Frenchc apers, cayenne pepper, anchovies, anchovy paste, smoked Yarmouth bloaters in canisters, &c, &c.
A London Skiff, with oars, rudder, sculls, sails, and everything complete.
GIBSON, MURRAY, DYETT, & CO.,
Perth and Fremantle,
PRINTING of all kinds executed in
a superior manner at the Perth Gazette Office on reasonable terms.
Perth, March 16,1852. ​...
The Botany of the North-western Districts of Western Australia.
A species of stylobasium, probably the original species of Desfontaines grows on all the limestone hills to the north of the valley of the lakes. The natural order myrtaceæ, sub-order chamelanciæ, produces many fine species over the whole of the country examined to the north and west. A pretty species of genetyllus, growing about a foot high, with short, fleshy, decussate leaves, grows plentifully on the sand plains to the east and west of the Hill river : the barren shoots are numerous, growing close together and quite upright, about a foot high ; they are generally unbranched and form a sort of column ; the flowering branches are about the same length, much branched,and they lie close to the ground, and spreading themselves in all directions round the plant which produces them ; the involucres are rose coloured about an inch wide at the top, and as much in depth : these cups grow quite upright, sometimes more than a hundred of them are seen on the ground, in a circle round the celumn of barren branches, and unless the plants are carefully examined there is nothing to indicate! their connexion, the flowering branches generally shoot out below ground. Another pretty species of this genus grows about a foot high, with heath like leaves, the drooping heads of the flowers are surrounded by glabrous bracts of a deep rose colour. Two more new species geratyll[u]s are found with small heath-like leaves, and small bracts. The genus chamelancium produces several fine species. By far the largest shrub of the order known to me is found on Bandy ground near all the rivers, from the Moore to the Irwin, it grows from fifteen to twenty feet high, bearing numerous corymbs of large lilac flowers, the sepals are broad and very short, without liliæ: the style bearded, and young plants of this fine shrub, about five or six feet high, often appear to have corymbs of flowers four or six feet in diameter, but these corymbs are produced by several branches.
THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
ened into a sort of a tube, like an epacrideus plant.
The splendid genus verticordiæ, produces several fine new species ; the large scarlet verticordiæ which I call V. grandis, first appears on the sand plains to the east of the Hill river ; but it is seen in the greatest perfection on the sand plain to the north of the spring, called by Mr Brown, the ' Diamond of the Desert,' it grows to be about five or six feet high, with glaucus, round, and rather fleshy leaves, about half an inch in diameter ; the flowers are seen in their greatest beauty the second or third year after the plants have been burned down ; it is then from two to three feet high, throwing up many stems from the same root, and one mass of scarlet flowers ; the principal branches are covered for more than a foot of their length, and these throw out many smaller shoots which are also covered with flowers. I found another species of verticordiæ with leaves in the shape and size like the V. grandis, but thinner in substance. The whole plant, although growing to the same height is of very slender habit, and is found thinly scattered over the great sand plain between the Hutt and the Murchison, the flowers are of a lilac colour, and appear to have five blood red spots in each flower ; these are produced by the undivided part of the calyx, which is of a very dark red colour, and it appears like red spots through the almost transparent corolla; this plant when well grown, that is, where it grows in open places and is not injured by other stronger plants, has every one of its numerous slender branches leaded with flowers in that state, and may contest the prize of beauty even with V. grandis itself.
A new lilac flowered verticordiæ, with glaucus, heart shaped, indented leaves, with several imbranched stems from the same root which terminate in small corymbs of flowers, grows sparingly about nine miles to north of the Hill river, and also near the base of Mount Lesseur ; and I have seen specimens which were gathered by Mr Edward Whitefield, near his residence on the Moore River ; this is one of the rarest specimens of the genus. A new verticordiæ, growing five or six feet high, with heart shaped leaves and drooping corymbs of yellow flowers, grows abundantly on the sand plain to the northward of the Hutt river ; another beautiful yellow species growing to twice the height of V. grandiflora, with larger flowers and longer leaves, and without the hairs which grow on the stem of one variety of that plant, and differing from both varieties, in growing to a much larger size, is found on sand plains near the Smith river. I have several other supposed new species of verticordiæ, but they require to be compared with other species in my herbarium.
Calycothurix produces several new species, with both purple and yellow flowers, but the characters which distinguish the species of this beautiful genus are so minute, I cannot describe them in a communication of this kind, the only species I shall particularly notice, is one which grows in form of a pyramid ; the plant grows about two feet high and about a foot wide near the ground, and tapers up to a point ; the leaves are small and heath like, the branches crowded as thick as they can grow together; the outside of the,pyramid was one mass of purple flowers, which almost hid the leaves ; this curious and beautiful plant grew in abundance near the spring called the ' Arrow Well.'
Of Labillardier's genus pileanthus, I gathered two species, and I saw a portion of a third, which was brought by my son, James Drummond, from the Upper Irwin, the first is a species with large purple flowers, growing in corymbs, not unlike a purple sweet William. This species grows on the limestone hills to the north of the spring, Diamond of the Desert ; the other species I met with, has red flowers ; it is near one I found on the Wanjan Hills, but the flowers are smaller and more numerous in the heads, and the habit of the plant is different ; the species I saw from the Upper Irwin, has heart shaped leaves and orange coloured flowers.
The sub-tribe of myrtaceæ leptospermæ produces but few new species to the north ; among those found, are three species of hypocalyma, a yellow coloured species, growing from eighteen inches to two feet in height, with leaves about an inch long, and quarter of an inch wide, first makes its appearance on the sand plains and ironstone hills near Dundaragan, and I saw it in abundance in similar situations as far to the north as Mount Lesseur : it produces abundance of fine yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves. A narrow leaved plant like hypocalyma angustifolia, but having yellow instead of white flowers, grows sparingly near the Diamond Spring, and a white flowering and robust growing species, five or six feet high, with leaves of the size and form of the broad leaved species, grows abundantly, but only in one spot, a small valley among the hills, about four miles to the north of Dundaragan ; a square capsuled opposite leaved eucalyptus, not yet seen in flower, grows among the hills near Dundaragan ; and a beautiful yellow flowered eucalyptus grows on the limestone hills to the west of the Valley of the Lakes ; it grows to a tree from twenty to thirty feet high, the leaves resemble those of the red gum, they are hispid on the young shoots, glatious on the flowering branches, which are always opposite in vigorous growth, sometimes alternate on old stunted trees ; the cups are of a bright scarlet colour, and have a verrucose appearance : when the capsule expands in a quadrangular form, the angles carrying with them the stamens in four divisions ; the seed vessels are nearly as large as those of the red gum ; the scarlet cups, fine yellow flowers, and opposite shining leaves of this tree, makes it one of the finest species of the genus.
A beautiful species of Dr Lindley's genus eremæ, but departing in some degree from the generic character, in having flowers born in clusters of four together, of a beautiful scarlet colour, and with buds covered with a soft wax like substance before they expand. A calothamus, with lanceolate leaves, about three inches long, and about a quarter of an inch wide, bearing bright scarlet flowers, followed by verrucose seed vessels, grows on the sand plains between Champion Bay and Mount Fairfax, and near the road in several places more to the south.
The natural order rutaceæ, or Rue family is not common in the country passed over, but I met with two plants which I suppose belong to now genera ; one is a small shrub, about two feet high, with round hoary leaves about half-an-inch in diameter ; the flowers have no calyx ; they consist of five petals which expand in a star like form, they are of a greyish green colour outside and pure white inside ; they soon fall off, and leave only the two celled capsules ; the cells are placed opposite, with lengthened recurved points, they each contain a single seed ; this plant grows sparingly by the side of a water course on the east side of Mount Lesseur ; the other plant which I suppose belongs to a new genus of this order, is a stiff upright growing shrub, about two feet high ; the flowers are borne in corymbs from nine inches to a foot in diameter ; the flowers are not very conspicuous, but they are accompanied by numerous large bracts of a golden yellow colour, which makes this one of the most showy of our native plants ; it grows on sand plains to the east and west of the southern branch of the Hill river, and in other similar situations to the south of the Irwin river.
A new euphorbiæ, grows among the warrang holes on the Irwin ; the leaves are linear, about an inch long ; the stems grow from eighteen inches to two feet in height.
(To be continued.)