SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 255, 11 April 1855, Page 6

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

(From the "Sydney Empire." Onr files of Adelaide journals extend to the oth instant. .'.'■•<' \ '

f Sir Charles Fitzroy landed at Adelaide on the 3rd instant, and having made a brief stay at Goyernment House, where lie was received by the Acting Lieutenant-Governor, re-embarked yon the same day, and proceeded on his voyage. The papers teem with the particulars of bush fires, and deaths from sun-stroke, the excessive heat which visited this colony a week or two since, having been preceded by a similar state of the atmosphere in South '-Australia. An ex-

tensive conflagration in the Port Elliot district is fully described by a correspondent of the Times. Fifes similar to it in their extent and destructive effects, were described as raging at Kangaroo island, on the Mosquito plains* at Eehunga, and elsewhere.

, We have learned from Port Elliot (says the Register of the Ist) that tlie Lady Emma had .landed ihe larger portions of tlie two new iron steamers intended.for ihe Murray, andthat they have been forwarded by railway to the Gbolwa, where the work of "/reconstruction 7 will be prom ply carried out,;7and7jth^ upon the Lower Mumi^;wil^rs;777;77:7<