COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 31, 8 October 1842, Page 123

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Progress op Discovery. — It is with unfeigned pleasure we have to announce the discovery of a splendid tract of country, within the boundaries' of the province, ninety miles in length by thirty miles across, stretching along the western bank of the Glenelg, and extending eastwards as far as Rivoli Bay, the whole admirably adapted for purposes of graziug or agriculture. Mount Gambier and Mount Schank, which are both situated in this neighbourhood, are found to be extinct volcanoes, Mount Schank having five craters, each of which is filled with pure fresh water, and is about three-quarters of a mile, in diameter, with perpendicular cliffs, at the height of about two hundred feet from the water's edge. About ten miles from Mount Schank there is a good harbour, which, the discoverer says, "must eventually be the shipping place for the exports of Australia Felix." The whole of this splendid tract of country is said to resemble a " nobleman's park on a large scale/ and is well watered. From the description which is given of it, it cannot contain less than two millions of acres of available land, or, in other words, nearly as much as has hitherto been discovered in the province. Already parties from Port Phillip are thinking of establishing themselves in this new territory, and a further exploration of it, we presume, will be immediately ordered. — Southern Australian. I Melbourne Municipal Corporation. —Melbourne is incorporated, as we anticipated in our last, and without any Eingle suggestion of the inhabitants through their committee being attended to. The Governor had made up his mind to carry the bill at all risks, and he has carried it, with the assurance on his lips which the bill denies, viz., that the corporation shall have the control of the police if they bear the expense. So cavalierly, in fact, has his Excellency treated the remonstrances of the inhabitants of Melbourne, that even the simple request that they might be allowed to conduct their business with open or with closed doors, according to their own discretion, has been refused, and the council must perforce transact their business in the dark, as if, like the Sydney magnates, they were afraid to court the light of day upon their transactions. — Port Phillip Patriot. South Australia. — The colonists have finally resolved upon petitioning the Queen, praying that her Majesty will be pleased to direct that no taxes whatever shall be imposed upon her Majesty's subjects in South Australia, until the Legislative Council be extended by the introduction of members elected by the colonists. The meeting was called for the 17th of August, by the mayor, upon the requisition of the principal inhabitants.