“As the successful accomplishment, so far, of the first voyage of the steamer _Lady Augusta_ permits us to look forward, with some confidence for the future, to the easy transit of goods and produce, to and from South Australia, by means of steam navigation, we may here, perhaps not improperly, retrospectively allude to the difficulties and tedious delays we have all, for so many years, encountered in reaching a market for our produce; and, in doing so, we are unwilling to forego the pleasure of assuring your Excellency that we shall ever look back with satisfaction to the time when, in these remote parts of the Colony, and surrounded by many discouraging circumstances, we had, in the year 1850, the strongest proofs afforded to us of the interest taken in the Murray and its navigation by finding your Excellency undertake and accomplish, at considerable personal exertion and inconvenience, a voyage of exploration, in an open boat, from the junction of the Darling with the Murray to the Goolwa. “We would only, further, beg to express to your Excellency that we recognize, with much satisfaction, the permanent honour, which in after years, must attach to you, for having so successfully aided the accomplishment of the Murray navigation; and we would offer you our cordial expression of hope, that, whether you may be resident in this or in other and more distant parts of the world, you may, for many future years, learn, with equal interest, the permanently beneficial results of the Murray navigation; convinced, as we are, that these results will prove highly important, not only to the best interests of your own Province, and to the Australian Provinces generally, but also to England, and other parts of the world; affecting, as they most indisputably will do, thousands of the population who may, in future years, make choice of Australia as the land of their adoption. D. Fletcher, J.P. H. Jamieson, J.P. J. Lecky Phelps, J.P. Sylvester & Smith Edward Lintott James A. Liscombe Joseph J. Phelps N. Chadwick James Hamilton William Ross John Grant John Grant, jun. Simon Grant Edmund Morey, J.P. Bushby Jamieson Thomas McPherson John McNichol Crozier & Rutherford Andrew Beveridge Peter Beveridge George Beveridge Albion Gibbs J. J. Keene K. Nox R. H. Jones James Rutherford M. McGrath James McGrath Thomas McGrath Henry Williams George B. Fletcher James McLeod “On board the _Lady Augusta_, River Murray, near the junction of the Darling, October 7, 1853.” _Reply of His Excellency Sir Henry Young to the foregoing Address._ “Gentlemen—I have the honour to acknowledge, and to thank you for, the Address which you have presented to me.