SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 33, 24 May 1845, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Two subjects occupy the pens of our Adelaide contemporaries, the whe.at market, and the pi>o> posed introduction of the " Parkhurst boys," or juvenile convicts, into the colony. It appears that the wheat sent to England .netted only 3s. 3d. per bushel, and the question was whether or not that would repay the grower. This important question seems to be decidW * n * ne affirmative, as, the estimated cost of produV^ 011 varies from Is", to 2s. per bushel. A meeting had been called for the purpose of memorializing her Majesty against the meditated introduction of the Parkhurst boys. Mr. Jas. Thompson, who was travelling overland from Port Phillip to South Australia with horses, was attacked by the blacks at Maria creek, and his horses dispersed. There was a great mortality among the children at Adelaide. Scarcely any rajn had fallen in Adelaide during the last three months ; but there had been ■ frequent and gentle showers in the hill country. Treading out the Corn. — The inability to procure thrashing machines this season has induced many persons on the plains to resort to the old method of treading out the corn with oxen. This plan has succeeded to admiration, and is found to be a vast saving of labour. On Monday evening we had an opportunity of inspecting this process in the farm yard of a settler, named Enoch Fry, near Nailsworth, distant about two miles from Adelaide, and Mr. L r ry informs us that, to smutty wheat, the .process has been found particularly advantageous. His calculations are, that ten sheaves may be thrashed in this way for every one thrashed by hand.