SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 387, 18 April 1849, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Sir H. F. Young, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor of South Australia, has given official intimation of Ms intention of laying before the Legislative Council a bill, prepared during the Administration of Governor Robe, for the incorporation of Adelaide, under the name, style and title, of the " Chairman, Councillors, and Citizens, of the City of Adelaide." The outline of the bill, as published, seems to follow pretty closely the Melbourne Acts, save that the City Council is only to be a body " corporate," and not "politic;" there are to be no Mayor and Aldermen, but the Chairman is to be a paid functionary, and he and the whole of the Councillors are to be ex officio Magistrates of the City ; there are also a lot of impolitic and impracticable restrictions of the powers of the Municipality, which will no doubt be done away with by the Legislative Council. The desire for the introduction of Municipal Institutions seems to be general, but the details of the measure appear objectionable, particularly as regards the departures from the general rule. The abstract is silent, both as to the franchise and to the qualification for a seat in the Council, but apparently all occupiers of houses, warehouses, countinghouses, and shops, within the City, either as owners or tenants, and duly enrolled, are to be entitled to be Citizens, if resident householders within the City Or within seven miles ; and all Citizens are to be entitled to be elected Councillors. Judge Cooper had obtained leave of absence, on account of ill-health, and was about proceeding to Van Diemen's Land. Charles Mann, Esq., Master of the Supreme Court, (an Attorney) had been, appointed to act as Judge, in His Honor's afeence. The Governor had appointed the following gentlemen to be a Board for the relief of tht destitute poor out of the funds voted for that purpose on the Estimates of 1848-1849 and 18491850: — The Hon. A. M. Mundy, the Hon. Jacob Hagen, the Rev. James Farrell, the Rev. Michael Ryan, the Rev. Robert Haining, Captain C. P. Brewer, William Giles, Esquire.