the extension of the buildings in New Norcia, Bishop

Salvado's visit to the penal settlement on Rottnest

Island and his effort to have two aborigials freed, the

construction of the telegraphic station at New Norcia

and it's eventual staffing by an aboriginal person, the

visit by Gov. Weld to New Norcia on his way to

Champion Bay and the event of a State Council at New

Norcia on 10-10-1877. Also description of the harvest of

1874 and the 30th anniversary of the founding of the

New Norcia mission on 01-03-1875. p. 101-117.

Read 'Pied Beauty' by  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Glory be to God for dappled things –

   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;

      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

                                Praise him.