SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 679, 4 February 1852, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

(From the Maitland Mercurg, Dec. 17.) We are in receipt of Adelaide papers to the Ist December. The search for gold in the colony was still vigilantly pursued, but no profitable diggings had yet been made known. In the Legislative Couucil tbe committee appointed to report on salaries comprised in schedu e D had brought up their 1 eport, recommending a scale of salaries, of which the following are the most important items ■ Governor, £2OOO ; two Judges, £2600; Advocate-General, £lOOO ; Colonial Secretary, £B5O ; Colonia! Treasurer, £6OO ; Auditor-General, £5OO ; Crown Solicitor, £600; Sheriff, £4OO. The Hydaspes, from Plymouth. 25th August, with 245 government immigrants, had arrived, Burra shares were quoted at £143, a steady declension from recent quotations. I he South Australian, weekly paper, had become a daily, under the title of The Adelaide Morning Chronicle', while the Adelaide Times, a daily paper, had given up its daily character, and become a weekly journal. Floods in the Rivers Darling and Murray. —The Darling has of late somewhat decreased, hut the Murray continues to rise, and theie is no doubt we shall witness the river higher this year than it lias ever yet been known within the memory of white men. Those who have known the Murray from the earliest settlement of the colony assure us that the river has now attained a magnitude beyond any former season within their experience. A recent visitor to the banks of that magnificent stream has communicated to us as follows some of the information he acquired and the impressions produced upon bis own mind:—“ln consequence of the very heavy falls of rain during the past winter, not only in this province, but throughout the districts of New South Wales, the rivers Darling, Murrumbidgee, and ether nuniercus tributaries of the noble river Murray have become swollen to an unprecedented extent, and their accumula ed floods have caused the Murray to overflow its banks, filling all the lagoons, and compelling many of the settlers on the lower sites to leave their houses for more elevated situations. At Moorundee, on Friday the 14th, the fioo 1 bad risen much higher than in 1847, and was rising steadily at the rate of four inches per diem. At that point the breadth of the river is enormously increased, and cannot be viewed without exciting in the min 1 the utmost regret that such a magnificent river is allowed to remain unnavigated. It is now so deep that lam told a frigate might safely sail 500 miles up the stream.”— Adelaide Observer, Nov. 26.