ADELAIDE. [From the Cornwall Chronicle, August 12.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 119, 19 September 1846, Page 4

ADELAIDE. [From the Cornwall Chronicle, August 12.]

We received this rooming Adelaide journals up to the Ist instant. The Medvay, a new frigate-built ship, 653 tons, Coombes, master, arrived on the 27th ultimo, having accomplished the voyage in 98 days from the Land's find, with 78 passengers, and a large, valuable, and well adapted cargo, and 15,000 sovereigns for tba Bank of Australasia. Among the passengers are Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Montifiore and family, and several old colonists. A monthly succession of first-class ships, of 500 tons and upward?, is advertised to sail from Gravesend, calling at Southampton. The Canton, from Plymouth 27th April, also arrived on the 31st July, with 257 passengers, most of whom are free emigrants, including a large number of female domestic servants. The Competitor re as fast loading, and was to sail for Adelaide 18th May. The Canton brings little cargo ; and some apprehensions are entertained that goods will, ere long, be scarce in the market, English shippers:, it is said, being shy of consigning to any known mining adventurers. Some of the inhabitants of Adelaide have given another proof of the prevalent fertility of invention amongst them, by originating an hydraulic contrivance, which may be termed the converse of the Artesian well ; inasmuch as it helps to restore to the depths below the element which is elsewhere so copiously abstracted therefrom by the application of the Artesian principle. But for the information of distant readers we must state, that Adelaide is not only unsupplied with sewerage, but, to -a large extent, without superficial drainage, and consequently ordinary excavations lor cellars and other purposes have either been found unavailable to the owners, or prolific of almost daily annoyance to their neighbours. The repeated operations of well-sinkers in Adelaide have ascertained that a conductor in the form of a stratum of sand exists at a certain mean depth underneath the whole of the southern portion of the city, and the only effectual remedy for an inundated cellar hitherto discovered, has been a well suuk within it to the depth of the conducting stratum of sand before mentioned. The new, or newly-adopt-ed mode, is to bore a hole down to the sand, lining it with a tin tube or one of iron, and to sink a well of good diameter, but six or eight feet only in depth, by way of a receiver ; communicating at about a foot or more below its brim with the vertical pipe described, by a horizontal pipe guarded at its orifice in the well by what is termed a perforated rose. By this cheap and singularly ingenious contrivance, cellars may not only be drained effectually, but reservoirs, which cannot overflow, are provided upon the premises — available for many useful purposes, and invaluable in case of fire* Messrs. Engelke & Co., of Curriestreet, and Mr. Lucking, of Hindley-street, have severally made practical trials of the invention, and it is now likely to be extensively adopted. — Adelaide Observer, Intelligence has just reached town from Corporal Kenny, at White's Creek, of the mounted police (who it will be recollected went out some weeks back with an aboriginal prisoner, with a view to find the bodies of the two shepherds who were murdered whilst in the charge of Mr. Tennant's sheep) that he had succeeded in apprehending a man named " Nakandah Biddiab," and a boy, who were present when the murder was committed. He is desirous of -hawing a light cart sent for the purpose of bringing them to head quarter*, the prisoner* not being aHe to walk »o fir. Me was about to proceed at once with the prisoners to find &« bo4i«« of the Men who wer» murdered close to Mr, Tenpaßt't »ta-

tion at Mount Brown. — South Australian Gazette, 4th July.