Source: Bell's Weekly Messenger, No.1786, Sunday, June 20, 1830
Accounts were received on Tuesday, from Swan River, by way of Sydney. The land proves to be fully equal to the most favourable mention made of it. From the numerous application for land the locations of one district had been filled up, and another opened on the 2d of November, within the parallel of 33 S. lat. The settlement was in a very thriving state. A considerable quantity of land had been brought into cultivation, and the public works were carried on with great spirit. A very long string of regulations, relative to the grants of land, had been published by Lieutenant-Governor Stirling, which orders that the territory be divided into counties, hundreds, townships, and sections—each section is to contain one square mile of 640 acres each, each township 25 sections, each hundred four townships, and each county 16 hundreds. Grants would be made in complete sections of one square mile. The accounts altogether may be considered favourable.