SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Melbourne Morning Herald.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 795, 16 March 1853, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Melbourne Morning Herald. ]

The Times, in an article on Guichen Bay, remarks — " There will be about four thousand bales of wool this year to be exported from the Guichen Bay district, and three thousand five hundred of these will be sent across the border to .Portland Bay, in the province of Victoria. This, of course, will be so far a loss to the colony of the supply of the stores required for that district, and to the Government of the revenue that might be raised upon them." The Disappearance os Mr. Grant. — We have received from a correspondent a few

further particulars connected with the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Grant. It seems that the unfortunate gentleman and his companion, Mr. Roberts, the latter a new arrival from England, were last seen at one of the ! huts on the new station, and it was supposed that they went away to look after some stray ' bullocks. This was on the 20th ultimo, and the course they should have made to fetch the hut they intended to visit, was North-west. From their tracks, subsequently discovered by parties in search of them, it is surmised that they took a N.N.E. direction, and if so, there was no probability of their being abl<? to» find water, as Mr. Marchant, who tracked them ninety miles in this direction, was compelled to return from that cause. Our correspondent adds that the melancholy event has created a great sensation among the northern settlers, everyone of whom had turned out in search, Mr. Grant having, since his purchase j of the run occupied by the late Mr. Proby, succeeded in gaining the attachment of all his neighbours Another expedition is, to be ; fitted out, and no means or expense will be spared to ascertain the fate of the unfortunate young man. — Times.