SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Railway. — A meeting was held yesterday at the South Australian Company's Offices, .to consider the propriety of urging forward the promotion of a Railway from the northern mines to the port. A large number of leading colonists attended, and William Giles, Esq., J.*P., Manager of the Company, was called to the chair. It was determined to memorialize his Excellency for the immediate bringing before the Council of the standing orders on the subject agreed to some time ago by the sub-committee. The idea is, that onetenth of the necessary amount might be raised here, where it is considered the movement must commence, apd a deposit of ten per cent, on' this placed in the hands of the Local Government, will be a sufficient guarantee to justify the sending home of the proposals, and the calling upon the friends of the colony in England to subscribe for the remaining nine-tenths. The desertion of seamen from their ships was casually mentioned, and the chairman was requested to urge on the Goyernor (at the time of presenting the memo-
rial) the absolute necessity of some stringent measures being taken on this subject. — South Australian* Arrival of Stock Overlanp. — We are happy to announce the safe arriyal, oyerland from Sydney, of Mr, B. Raye* and party, with two thousand head of. cattle in first rate condition for the butcher, Mr. R>ye and party left the last iohabited station on the Darling on the 2nd of June, making a most successful expedition. They fell in with numerous tribes of natives, but met with no molestation. A large portion of the, stock has been already disposed of at good prices, while the horse-stock has been .sold equally well, and offers have been made for the remainder at prices highly satisfactory. As this party>have found so good a market here, others will, no doubt, speedily follow in the same route. The expedition consists of five teams and twenty men. — South Australian Register.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 243, 27 November 1847, Page 3
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