SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 623, 23 July 1851, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

[From the Maitland Mercury, June 23.] Bu rra Burra shares were quoted at £l7O. Another flood had occured at the Burra Burra on Whitsunday, caused by a sudden hurricane of wind and rain; the creek was again heavily flooded, inundating all the dwellings or caves excavated in its banks, and in one case the roof fell in, burying the owner as he was removing his furniture; he had.been a successful miner, and £4OO was found in money in his box after his death ; his family had happily been placed in safety before the accident happened. The damages by the former flood were estimated at £2OOO, besides the losses of individual miners, who usually placed their money for safety in a hole in the inner walls of their caves. The loss by the second flood was not stated. Great devastation had also been done at Willunga by a heavy and sudden rain storm.

Further Discoveries.—A new pastoral country has been discovered to the north of Mount Eyre, between latitudes 31.50’ and 31. It is a mountainous country, and the ranges rise to the height of about 2000 feet. There are several streams, some of which are said to run the whole year. A well-known surveyor lately visited this country, with reference to a dispute, not yet decided, as to the right of run between Messrs Brown and Bagot. He describes a very singular locality—a piece of level land capable of depasturing 500 head of cattle, surrounded by perpendicular rocks which rise to the height of 1000 feet, and there is only one point of ingress or egress, a narrow swampy eoree, which cattle would not willingly pass.' It has been named the pound. Mr. C. N. Bagot claims tne honor of having discovered this new country, which extends about 150 square miles. It is to the eastward of Mr. Eyre’s track from Mount Eyre to the Two Peaks, and is the farthest available country in the direction of Mount Hopeless. From the hills a good view was obtained of Lake Torrens, which was seen distinctly trending away to I the westward as far as the eye could reach.— South Australian. The Franchise nf South Australia. ■—We have been enabled to ascertain that the \vhole number of registered voters who claim to exercise the franchise at the forthcoming

elections is about 7,350. On comparing this number with the late census returns, it will be found to present the following results : —lt is 11.58 per cent, on the whole population ; or, calculated with reference to the males only, it is“wenty-one per cent. The voters, however, including only those who are of age, the proportion can only be fairly taken on the male aduks above 21 years of age : upon these it is 27 per cent. —a large proportion it must be admitted, and one evincing in a striking manner the position of the great mass of the inhabitants of the colony.— Adelaide Observer.