VICTORIA. [From the Hobart Town Advertiser, June 15.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 728, 24 July 1852, Page 3

VICTORIA. [From the Hobart Town Advertiser, June 15.]

The Adelaide escort has again made a successful trip to Mount Alexander, and in addition to the gold transmitted to Melbourne, a large quantity is, ready at the mines for the Adelaide escort. The correspondent of the Herald observes :—: — The Adelaide escort has arrived, and is now in full working order. Already, by yesterday eve, three hundredweight had been deposited with Commissioner Tolmer, and he is off to Bendigo on Friday. Report, with her thousand tongues, states that an immense amount lies impatiently waiting for him there. The escort comes over from Adelaide — four hundred miles — in eighteen days, through bog and mire, swimming rivers, and wading through dense morasses. What think ye' of that, ye Melbourne gold escort men ! Four hundred miles instead of seventy five. A relief station^>f the Adelaide 'police has been formed at Scott's Woodsheds, just outside the Melbourne boundary, about two hundred and twenty miles from the Mount. The Adelaide escort this time consisted of fifteen men, with Sergeant Lamb and Commissioner Tolmer— —all- bold slashing fellows. In a fortnight or so, another escort conveyance is expected from Adelaide ; a resident

Adelaide Commissioner is to be located here, an old respected colonist, Mr. Roynell. He brings "with him a galvanized house, and other appurtenances suitable for a winter residence, light and portable, put up or down in a fewhours, and well suited for oar nomadic population. , Permanent fixtures .pn these diggings, I am now convinced, will never do ; our diggers are here one day, and twenty miles off the next. While standing at the -Adelaide Escort-office yesterday, considerable merriment was created by a mob of five rough-looking chaps, lugging out slowly bag after bag for Adelaide, till they numbered nine, the aggregate weight of which when reckoned up, amounted to sixty pounds ; and they promised (the lucky devils) to bring sixty pounds more, by next escort's arrival. They would .not tell where they got it, but went of in the direction of Friar's Creek. A woman came also to deposit her two pounds of gold. Mr. Tolmer jocularly remarked, if it was for her husband in Adelaide, she was the first woman he had found deposit gold at the Mount, whereas himself and the escort men were literally besieged and worried in the streets of Adelaide, by the women folks applying to them to know if they had gold for them from" their husbands. Mr. T. says it is quite a novel sight, when the gold escorts-heaves in view, on the plains near Adelaide, to see the immense number of wives, young women, and children, that turn out en masse, to greet their arrival from the diggings, to hear the golden news from, their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sweethearts, all far away, digging at the Mount.*

The Road to the Diggings. — We were, on Thursday, in conversation with a man who had started with a load for the Mount, but on arriving at Flemington, was compelled to turn back owing to the dreadful state of the roads. He informed us that he had spoken with' a horseman who had just returned from Mount Alexander, who described the road as quite impassible for drays, and almost, impracticable for pedestrians and equestrians. The fears we expressed some weeks ago as to the scarcity of food and the consequent distress at the diggings, we fear will soon be fully verified.

Destruction op Property". — The mill at Buckley's Falls has been partially destroyed, the mill wheel and a portion of the building being carried away. Property of all descriptions has been washed ashore on both sides of the Barwon River ; and the Lake of Connewarre presented on Sunday morning, an awful sight of wreck and havoc caused by the inundation. Boxes, broken chairs, tables and drawers, and other parts of furniture were strewed about in all directions, and it was lamentable to see individuals who, actuated by an ungenerous and' covetous disposition, appropriated whatever they could lay their hands upon within reach. — Geelong Advertiser.

Thk Floods. — From all we can heaf the rain of last week has done much damage. Every bridge between Melbourne and Mount Alexander is swept away, and the communication is for 'the present almost literally cut off. Several loaded drays returned to town yesterday, being unable to proceed, some of them, having been stuck in a rut for a week, and unable to extricate themselves. Near the junction of the Salt Water River and Deep Creek the floods carried away the house of a Mr. Robinson ; and much injury has been inflicted in and around that neighbourhood. The Coliban bridge is gone, and the only practicable road now to the Diggings is, as we understand, via Kilmore. — Argus,