SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 33, 18 May 1863, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

(From the S. A. Begister, April 24.)

Majok Blyth and the Vomjnteers. — The valedictory address from the volunteers to Major Blyth, signed bv thirtynine field and senior officers of various companies, was on Thursday morning formally presented to the gallant colonel by Lieutenan^Colonel Finniss, in the I presence of a parade of about fifty volunteers. The Conference Resolutions.— Our Melbourne telegram contains alleged particulars of the resolutions agreed to by the recent Conference. How they have "transpired" does not appear, nor can it be said how far they are correct until the official statements on the subject have been made. We suppose this disclosure of a " state spcret." which was not to have been revealed on any account until the arrival of a certain moment — when, with fine dramatic effect, it was to be announced simultaneously in all the colonies— is owing to some indiscretion on the pan of one of the Melboune delegates. He has prob ablvtold the matter to his wife, who has tr>!d her mother, and the mother has told every body. The other delegates have a risrhf. to complain at hearing the thunder which they were about to roll forth, di6sipatpd in these little rumblings. Stuart the Exploker. — The Parliamentarv reward of L2,000 voted to Mr Stuart for crossing the continent has, by his own desire, been invested for his benefit in the names of trustees. A full length portrait of Mr Stuart, the result of a subscription, is being taken by Mr Irvine. Curious and Fatal Accident, —On Friday evening Mr. Hawker, a storekeeper, li%'ing on the Tunglcillo-road from Mount Torrens, returned home after dark with his horse and dray. His wife, upon his arrivnl, came out from the house, and was standing with her husband near the dray, when some wild animal— supposed to be an opossum from its afterwards climbing a tree — ran across the road irnme- j diafely before the horse, and, making a | loud noise, frightened and caused it to start forward. The motion of the horse capsized the dray in some unknown way, we believe, and it fell on Mr. Hawker, crushing all the liones of his chest, and severe!^ injuring one of his legs. He survived the accident only tv?o hours, and on Saturday an inquest was held over his body by Mr. J. B. Ttendall, J.P- fne jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." , _, , It is generally expected that the South Australian Customs duties will be largely auementod, probably by the imposition of increased rates upon goods now chargeable with fixed dnt'cs. The exports of South Australian produce during the last three months endingMarch 31 . has been estimated at £621,207, against £488.C,72 in the corresponding quarter of 1862. Mr. TTfiro-rcaves. the discoverer of gold in New South Wales, has been inspecting several localities in this colony supposed j to be auriferous. He reports favorably, and is of opinion that gold will be found in this colony.

The (Government have mrde inquiries into a report that pleurn-pneumonia existed in the colon v, and have discovered it to be totally unfounded.