SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 February 1864, Page 6

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

■• '■ '• (From the ARegister.) ■ EEYEJnrB AMD iExPE^DITXTBE.— *Th© ; reyenue and expenditure returns . fpr; thV quarter^ Deseinber, ; XBB3, IslioAv that the total revenue for the quarter Hvas £158,165, against •£ 140,881 for the corresponding quarter of the previous year ; and the year's revenue was £65i,700 against;; £548,709 for 18&2. This. shows: an increase upon the quarter of £1T,8d4.y and an increase- upon the year" of £82,991.' _ y "i.i AiiiSAA :'.......'"' Y Flour .Trade, with,; Chixa.— -Iu; another eolurnu, (January 23rd) will; be found an adA r .ertisement from the Com-; missariat Department, calling for tenders from per&ons wiilujg to contract; for the.^jjpply ;df .tons ; of flour ' at; Hong Kong. Full particulars .will be ; given in the -advertisement, from Avhich it will be seen that ad 1 opportunity is noAV offered by wliich the:. South Aus-' tralian merchants may open a trade Avith China — one Avhich, after a while, may become of great value to the' colony. As yet, California has had a monopoly in supplying; Hong- Kqhg Avith flour, but there, is no reason Avhy ; the trade should not be brought to South Australia. From a correspondence which has been going on for .some timo past, Ave learn that Mr: SR. SD. Roan has strongly urged the desirability of the South Australian flour market being tried by the authorities in China ; and as Mr. - Mafcurin, formerly of this colony- is now stationed"there, it has at length been found convenient to send a call for tenders to this place. It is believed that if the first contract is satisfactorily performed larger orders Avill soon folloAV, and that other exports ■will also be required fbr the same market. From the advertisement it Avill be seen that the flour is required to bo made up in bags, not barrel*. We hope this chance of opening a new trade Avill not- be alloAved to slip. Axother Life Lost ix the Busu oa Yorke's Pexixsula. — A correspondent writes as folloAvs : — " A shepherd named Leith Silver stone, in the employ of Messrs. Boivman and Parnell, at Parara, has been lost in the bush, under the following melancholy circumstances :-— On "Wednesday, the 30th December last, Mr. Samuel Rogers, a sheep farmer from Yorke Valley, Avas passing on his way from bis station to Adelaide, by one of Messrs. Bowman and Parnell's stations, called Tittiwitti, on the Parara Run • his attention Avas attracted by the wife of the unfortunate man, who informed Mr. Rogers of the demented state of her husband's mind, and, in consequence of his ferocity, begged of •Mr. Rogers to stay and take care of her aud the children, but that gentleman, having business in Adelaide, instantly Avrote a note to the troopers at -Wallaroo, and sent it by aid of the hotelkeeper at Clinton. •On 2nd January, a man named Joseph Mills, from Tittiwitti, called at Elliott's Hotel to ascertain if there Avere any tidings of the police coming, and informed Mr. Elliott that the man SiLerstone had driven his Avife and j four children from Tittiwitti to another hut at Tintunda, a distance of ten miles, and on their arrival liad, by threats, made each strip naked, and then danced around them, flourishing a blackfellow's waddy. Messrs. Elliott (from Cliuton) and Mills then started together to the place at Tintunda, found his family, and after a rigid search, discovered poor Silverstone's clothes most carefully piled up, surmounted by his Avi.de-awake cap. The poor man had, after dancing round his wife and children, divested himself of every particle of clothing, and ran direct into the dense scrub. A/searchhas beeu made for the body, but the country is so densely scrubby that not the slightest hope remains of his discovery. In his trousers pockets Avere tAVopueeea of paper bear nig the folio aving: — "Leith Silverstone, I am iiow in bondage. God/Father, God, please I Avelcome to Jet me free, your son." What makes the circumstances still more painful is that the Avife ana* children have only recently been. sent up to join the unfortunate man, who has been long in the employ of Messrs. BoAvman and Parnell. --_ .- The Mooxta Mixes. — We understand that a meeting 'of "persons who are interested in the claim 'now being put forward for, the proprietorship of the Moonta Mines, was •held iat the Gresham Hotel, on Friday afternoon^ From twenty to thirty gentlemen were present ; Mi*. J. H. Clark in tlie chair. It was resolved to take immediate steps to prosecute the claim, and to test the validity of the leases 'held by the present proprietors, for which purpose £7000 Avas subscribed, and. a committee of management, • consisting of five persons, appointed. The solicitors of the claimants were directed to issue processes forthwith on the present leaseholders. We are informed that the_two parties Avho separatelypreferred a claim to the property have united in tlie present movement. • , -