SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 340, 4 November 1848, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

His Excellency Lieutenant- Governor Young has sen,t to Mr7rWrjght, the Secretary of the South Australian Agricultural and Hpr--frculfural Society, /aorrie' packets? oV t<(|^ {gSjst kinfls of seeds of the tobacco plant produced in the Havana and elsewhere, whh,s-requcst that the Secreta r y might render -the-seeds-as beneficial as pb's'&iule'Uo/th&.ctolehistß by a carelul distribution to applicants. * ' CT Y.O ~r Notwithstanding the coWritesS 6fNfofe"atin&phere and the recent Copious rains, the locusts had, again roade their appearance 'va'&kitta* in South' Aus^ajia,. -and .njpfiy.person.svpredicted that tbeir ravages jrould be inore.thau usually serious.'; \ ; s x ;j, ■ « , A smart shock, of an e^cthguaVe was felt in Adelaide about four o clock on the morning of the 14th' SepteraBer; 'Irhe vibration was so sensibly felt 'that •eyii'alf inhabit jimt -declared their, beds shook under^thenij ; , j(hd Dri Woodford'a house was roue&, jJiakenH.i; A disturbstnctf had- commenced at ttie Barra Burr a mines in conwauejace of some, mifiun-

derstamling between the yiorkrhen and the directors, on the subject of assays. A set tous >iot would, have resulted had it hot been for v fh'e interposition of the police.