Australasia Reported in the Liverpool Mercury, 1824-25, The April 30, 1824 edition carries a long article headed 'Emigration to Van Diemen's Land', the January 14, 1825 carries a report of the trial of Alexander Pierce at Hobart Town, who was tried for the murder of Thomas Cox and for subsequently cannibalizing his body 'to exist upon', the February 18, 1825 edition reports on the arrival of the Urania from New Zealand, bringing a maori chief to meet King George III. (3).