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SOUTH AUSTRALIA

(From the South Australian Her lister.)

M'Kinl.vj's DfAiiv.— By the couitcsy of the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration, we are in possession of Mr. M'Kinbvy's diary, with a chart of the course he pursued. The diary is a voluminous document, commencing with his departure from Adelaide, on the 10th August, 1861, and closing with his airival on the 2nd August, 1862, at a station on the River Uowen — a stream that flows northward into the Burdekin.

Thk New Country. — A despatch has boon received from the Duke of Newcastle offering South Australia, with Queensland the guardianship of the unsettled country between these colonies and the northern coast. The Government will doubtless reply by the out-going mail. New South Wales and Victoria, it will be seen on reference to a suitable map, are cut off from the interior by Queensland and South Australia. The Home Government, therefore, propose that Queensland should have charge of all the country stretching from its own most northern boundary across to the Victoria Kiver, and including the whule of that portion of the interior which lies between the the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Tropic of Capricorn. This would leave to the care of South Australia three degrees of country northward beyond its present boundary. We should have, in fact, a temporary extension of territory reaching nearly up to Central Mount Stuart, the boundaries east and west being simply an extension northward of our present boundaries. This, we need hardly say, would be a comparatively useless piece of country, and the object of the proposed arrangement is to encourage settlement on the opposite coast, it would be a much better plan to allot to the care of South Australia a strip of country across the continent to the Victoria liiver. This would give an outlet to enterprise from South Australia, and would leave pioneers from Queensland to direct their efforts towards the other proposed settlement at the Albert liiver. However, the question is one that cannot be decided until Parliament has had an opportunity of considering it. The object of the home Government is undoubtedly a good one. The}' wish to provide against the chance of lawlessness in a country which, though unsettled, may yet become occupied ; and the colonies of South Australia and Queensland will probably not object to take their shave of responsibility in the matter, if the arrangements as to the territory and its revenues whilst in their temporary possession are of a satisfactory kind.

buuMAKTNE Volcano. — Captain Prescli, of the Johanna brig, recently arrived from SunJeilatul, saw what he describes as the action of a submarine volcano, about thirty miles to the westward of Cape Bord, Kangaroo Island. Wo think the matter sufficiently interesting and important to -warrant further investigation, not merely for seieiuifie, but also for practical purposes. If active volanic ag-eri'ies are still at work upon the margin of our (;i»ast-line, it is possible that shoals or islands dangerous to navigation might be formed with great rapidity. [Doubtless the Government will make special inquiry into the particulars of the phenomena observed by Captian IJresell,1 J resell, and despatch some competent i erson to make further observations in the neigh oorhood of Cape Bonln. Jt is not likely that the eiuption referred to was the only one that took place, or that the volcanic disturbance will notextendover a period of several days, or perhaps weeks. Tali skf,u Lkad .Mixk. — A shipment of ;>0 tons of lich silver- lead ores, per ship Murray to London, wiil it is hoped, prove an auspicious commencement of a new realization. -By the same coasting vessel which brought up the 30 tons from Tali^kcr. the proprietors in Adelaide have received apondnms lump of ore, weighing nearly Jive cut., part of a huge block too heavy for removal with present local appliances. This lump of ore is said to, resemble, the rich silver lead of Belgium. yiyldlin<j 75 pei cent, of metallic lead, and more than sixty ounces of silver in the ton of ove. Humored Gor.nriF.i.n. — It is reported that that a claim for a gohliield, alleged to have hi vi) discovered a few miles to th^ north of Tort Elliot, has been made at the Land Ofh'ee, and that the person making the claim lias in his possession a nugget of gold Weighing about one ounce and a half.

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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 3

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729

SOUTH AUSTRALIA Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 3

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