SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 740, 4 September 1852, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

We (Hobart Town Advertiser) have Adelaide journals to the 15th July. A numerously signed memorial had been presented to the Lieutenant- Governor, relative to disappointed gold diggers, the gist of which will be best understood by perusal of the following paragraph : — "We entreat your Excellency to make, through your Agent, enquiries as to the extent of this distress among South Australian colonists, at Mount Alexander, and of your Excellency to arrange some plan by which the unfortunates may find their way back to the abundance of this colony. We beg respectfully to suggest that some portion of the land fund (being principally an emigration fund) might be properly applied to this purpose, especially as it is only desirable that Loan Passages should be granted to those who need it, they giving to your Excellency's Agent or appointee, a proper undertaking to repay the amount of such loan passage in some given time, and if any loss should occur in the operation, such loss to be made up to the land fund from the general revenue. We may be allowed to observe, that independent of the humanity, the benefits of ttn\ proceeding to the whole community are too obvious to need particularising." The South Australian coast had been visited by some severe gales.

The Municipal Council had commenced operations, and the Mayor (Mr. J. H. Fisher,) had expressed a wish that the Council should not vote him a salary, which was accordingly complied with. By way of a caution to gold purchasers, the Register of the 15 th states, that " one of the deliveries from the Assay Office yesterday was of the fineness of 20* S carats only ; the parcel having originally contained from 8 to 9 ozs. of ironstone and other dross. This gold was purchased, we are informed, as Mount Alexander gold, at £3 7s. per oz. ; the purchaser will therefore sustain- a considerable loss." The Civil Sittings of the Supreme Court were but commenced, and twelve cases were set down for trial. — Herald.

The quantity of gold deposited on the 14th was 9,138 ozs. 10 dwt. 14 grs., which valued at £3 lls. per oz., amounts to ~ £ 32,44 1 15 and, adding the total of previous deposits, viz., .... £449,906 7 7 4 gives a present total 0f. ... £482,348 2 11