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dry: so terminated the day's sport. My new men going to turn out for higher wages, though one gets 2l. per month as shepherd, and the other 1l. per month as cowherd; the former may go, especially as the sheep which I expected from Sydney have not arrived; nor do the good people either there or at Van Diemen's Land appear in a hurry to send them, which is provoking, as a little exertion in this way, by Government or individuals, would soon render us an independent colony.