SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 182, 28 April 1847, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Our files of Adelaide papers received by the Dorset are to the 17th ultimo. The Princess Royal, with two hundred emigrants, arrived at Adelaide on the 16t.1i ultimo. The males are principally mineis from the districts of Cornwall and Devon. There were seven births and three deaths during the voyage. It is affirmed in the South Australian Register of the 13th ultimo, that there are in that province more than 300,000 bushels of the finest wheat perhaps ever the earth produced, over and above the quantity required for home consumption. Good wheat is quoted at 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; and fine Hour £12 per ton. With all this superabundance the Observer of the same date declares that there " seems a tendency to advance !" A colonist (says the Register of the 10th March) who lately made an excursion to the neighbourhood of the Angas, was agreeably surprised to find that the settlers in that district are in the habit of supplying themselves with salt for all their curing and culinary pur« poses from some natural arid copious deposits in the vicinity of the Lake. Our informant had not time to go and inspect the most remarkable of those deposits ; but from certain local circumstances which were mentioned to him, he is induced to think there must be either rock salt, or what is called in Cheshire ■" brine springs," in the neighbourhood. The salt found is described as preferable to that brought, from Kangaroo Island ; and as the settlers in its vicinity seldom, if ever, bring any imported salt from Adelaide, it is presumed the article is as faultless as an unrefined salt can possibly be.