SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 43, 30 May 1844, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The inhabitants of South Australia number between 16.000 and 17,000. They are governed wfell p at least, sufficiently well, but they murmur at the expense. Reader—the cost of the South Australian Government is what ? £30,000. But Sonth Australia is not governed wholly for Imperial purposes.—C. Mann,nEsq. has been appointed Prothonotary.—The whaling parties are engaging men for the forthcoming season. —Mr. Longbottom, the Wesleyan Minister has returned from Sydney, and resumed his duties. Mr. Bentham Nealess had taken 3000 bushel* of wheat, and 130 bags of flour, with the intention of arranging for oontmued importations. An Insolvent act has passed the Legislative Council.—Operations have been activelycominenced at the Rapid Bay lead mine, by Messrs. Philips. The Francis Spaiglit had sailed for England with a full cargo of wheat, wool, bark, and gum. Wheal now rules about 6s 6d per bushel. His Excellency Governor Grey had been on a tour of inspection to Encounter Bay, and the southern portions of tbe Colony. A deserter from the 96th, named Thoma* Wilson, had been arrested. The Augustus, bound for Sydney, had got a-shore in Holdfast Bay, but got off with little damage. A prosecution was about Jbemg commenced under ; lhe Census Aot, against one or two persons who had refused to make returns, the plea for which is that itwasa coutempt of the Government, The South Austra • lian Register says, that the only effect will be to make the feeling general, which is now only manifested by a few. Lake Hindmarsb, on the Eastern Frontier, ha* been re discovered, and a fine rich territory in its neighbourhood. The annual profits of the Colony are stated at £IO,OOO. The oonseqtience is, that of twenty-two merchants existing in 1839, 40, 41 and 42, only eight remain , of one hundred and forty shop keepers, only twenf.y one; and of fifteen auctioneers, only two. A Choral Sooiety bas been established in Adelaide. In the week ending March 16th, twenty persons bad been carried off by a slow fever, caused by sudden alternation of heat and cold. A native named Pitta Kertemera had been arrested for stealing some flour ; bis compatriots rescued biro, but he was subsequently retaken by tbe police, and committed for trial. Of the two banks, one has declared no dividend, owing toitsheavy losses. The other ba* paid (one) out of the reserved capital,— South Austral ian Register,