SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Melbourne Argus.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 293, 20 May 1848, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Melbourne Argus.]

We have, via Portland, South Australia news to a later date, of which the following are the most interesting items :—: — The Success, a British ship of about 800 tons, had received all her copper ore, and other dead weight on board, and having hauled over the bar, for the purpose of filling up with light cargo for England, unfortunately, on Friday night, during a heavy storm, which was experienced all along the coast, dragged and went on shore, where she was lying at the time the Minerva left, in a very precarious state. On Tuesday the 21st ult., his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, and a party consisting of the Surveyor-General, the Collector of Customs, their ladies, the Commissioner of Police, and Miss Cooper, left the Port in the Government vessel for a pkasure trip in the Gulf. — On Wednesday the party went on shore on Yorke's Peninsula, where tents vere speedily erected and provisions duly landed. la the landing from the cutter, it was necessary to use the cutter's boat, which was moored a considerable distance from the spot on which the tents were fixed ; and it was not until Thursday afternoon, that the stale of the boat was discovered. It would seem that in the course of Wednesday night a breeze had sprung up, in which the boat had ridden so uneasily, that she was found stove in. The intelligence was com-

municated to the party, and their chagrin was considerably heightened by finding that they had very little water, and but three loaves of bread. Every means were resorted to attract the notice of the persons on board the cutter, but without effect. Night came and went, and their case now appeared desperate. — Some of the party went in search of water, while others signalled the cutter. The men on board the vessel suspected all was not right and kept a look out accordingly. At last they discovered the signals of distress ; but here a difficulty arose — they had no boat, and it was not considered prudent to run the cutter further* inshore. At last it was resolved to run over to the Lightship and obtain a boat, which was promptly accomplished. Saturday afternoon they once more arrived at the anchorage, and the boat was sent on shore to the gre&t delight of his Excellency and his friends ; the tents were struck, and the distinguished party once more got safely on board. The cutter soon left the inhospitable shore, and early on Sunday morning reached Port Adelaide. — Register. We stated a fortnight ago that it Wat doubtful that Sir Henry Young would be the Governor of the province, and we "are now enabled to announce that he will not. In consequence of the representation of Sir Henry Pottinger, Earl Grey had determined to continue Sir Henry Young as Lieute-nant-Governor of that district; and his lordship accordingly intimated his intention— about the dlose of November last — of nominating another gentleman to succeed Colonel Robe as Governor of South Australia. Although this nomination had not been officially announced on the 20th December, we be* lieve that it was then on the eve of taking place ; and it is possible the next arrival may bring us the name if not the person of the new Governor. — S. A. Gazette.