SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 359, 10 January 1849, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Th£ Weather akd Crops. — We believe we may venture to say that nothing like ihe protracted cold, the hail, and t&e wet weather of the present season is within the,- memory of the oldest South Australian, as having occurred since he set foot on this part of the great southl and. The Torrens has this week been> a mighty flooJ ; and the Sturt, which usually ceases to run at this period, or is only aJanguid stream, overflowed its banks on Wednesday last, and inundated the country, down. to Glenelg, for half a mile each side of its ordinary course. In fact, we have endured all the severities of winter when we should have been enjoying a foretaste of the summer solstice. It is feaied the hay crops will have sustained considerable damage, but the corn is, for the most part uninjured ; and there was never finer promise of abundant crops. It is to be hoped that a change of weather will not be too sudden for the products of the vineyards and the orchards, which, iv mo*t< instances, bid fair to be abundant beyond all former example. — S. A. Gazette.

Captain Sxurx. — We iegret to learn that Captain Sturt, who was in. France at the date of our last advices ftom Europe, was in very bad health. He had applied for an extension of leave for six months. — S. A. Gazette.

Share Market. — The transactions in shaies during the week have been extremely few. Burra Burras have been done at £130, three months' bill — purchaser paying the discount, and receiving the dividend. There have also been sales at £115 cash. A report being in circulation that, at the board meeting of the directors this afternoon^ it was decided that there should be no dividend declared for the ensuing quarter day, it may tend to counteract the effect of such a rumour to state, upon sufficient authority, that the subject of a dividend was not mentioned at the board meeting. — Adelaide Paper, Nov. 18.