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John Linnell (17921882) Portrait of Ralph
Darling, Governor of New South Wales, 18251831 1825
oil
on wood panel; 30.3 x 24.9 cm R9877 |
1825
February
25 Musquito
and Black Jack, Aboriginal warriors, are hanged in Hobart
28 Brisbane orders the removal of the Moreton Bay
settlement from Redcliffe to the site of present-day Brisbane
March 4 A penal settlement is established
on Maria Island, Tasmania
24 Brisbane issues regulations for the sale of Crown
land (from 5 shillings to 10 shillings per acre)
May
20 Andrew Bent is prosecuted for
libelling Governor Arthur in the Hobart Town Gazette. He is subsequently
fined and gaoled
June
6
Norfolk Island is reopened as a penal settlement for
incorrigibles
14 Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively
from New South Wales
The Van Diemen's Land
Company is established by act of parliament to operate pastoral and
agricultural interests
July 16
By 16 July Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling is given separate commissions
as Governor of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. The area of New South
Wales has its western boundary extended from 135'E to 129'E, to include Fort
Dundas, Melville Island, and has its southern boundary extended to
Wilsons Promontory. South of that is to be Van Diemen's Land
21 The Australian Agricultural Company is promised a
31 year lease of Newcastle Coalmines
September
29
The Sydney Gazette changes from a weekly to a twice-weekly
publication
November 4 Sydney Free Grammar School opens
with L.H. Halloran as its headmaster It closes late 1826
December 3 Darling is sworn in as Governor of
Van Diemen's Land. He proclaims the colony's independence from New South Wales,
and establishes the Legislative Council, and then hands over control to
Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur
17 Darling arrives at Port Jackson in the
Catherine Stewart and takes over from Brisbane as Governor (19
December)
20 The new Legislative Council of New South Wales is
sworn in
Other Artist Augustus Earle arrives in Hobart
from Tristan da Cunha, where he had been accidentally marooned for nine
months
18,500 hectares of land
are under cultivation; 134,500 head of cattle are grazing Australian pastures, and 186,600kg of wool
is now being exported during a year
Buffaloes are imported
from Timor and acclimatised at Fort Dundas, Melville Island
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