Sidney, Jan. 18.
The celebrations in honour of the 150th anniversary. of the arrival of the first British settlers in Austral and the founding of the Common: wealth began this morning at Botany Bay with an elaborate. ceremony. 'The old flag. first hoisted "on the Australian mainland on January 18, 1788, by Captain Philip' when he arrived" with conviels and" de-portoes from England, was while an artillery salute was fred.
The Governor of New South Wales, Lord Wakehurst addressed the gathering which included mem bers of the State Cabinet and many distinguished visitors from England and America—Trans-Ocean.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.