 On 25 March 1853 he had navigated to Penn's Reach, a few miles north of Morgan, when low water levels forced him to return.The following year he reached Swan Hill, from the sea at Goolwa.Later that year Captain Cadell won the Government's £2000 prize for the first practicable cargo boat "Lady Augusta" (The £2000 was soon raised to £4000 on Cadell's agreement to build another boat.