(3) To lay out farms, erect suitable buildings thereon, and let the same on lease, with the right of purchase before the expiration of such lease, at a price to be fixed at the time of the tenant taking possession. (4) To grow wool for the European markets. (5) To establish whale, seal, and other fisheries in the gulf and seas around the colony, and to cure and salt fish for exportation. (6) To salt and cure beef and pork for ships and for general export. (7) To establish a bank or banks; to make loans on the security of land or produce, and to perform all necessary and expedient banking operations. (8) To select, contract with, and provide the requisite tools for carpenters, brickmakers, lime -burners, blacksmiths, boat-builders, fishermen, and others, so that every want of immigrants might be supplied on their arrival in the colony.
Within a month or two of the foundation of the South Australian Company, appointments to the various departments, both at home and in colony, were made, and their fleet sent forth;—the John Pirie, with 21 passengers, goods, and the live stock; the Duke of York, with 42 passengers, including Mr. S. Stephens, the Colonial Manager of the Company; the Lady Mary Pelham and the Emma^ with passengers and whaling and general stores.
The colonial officials were, of course, sent out by the Board of Commissioners—Captain Hindmarsh, the Governor, in the Buffalo, Colonel Light, the Surveyor-General and his staff of assistants in the Rapid; Mr. G. S. Kingston,
