SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1065, 30 November 1868, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Nov. 14. 1 The total imports for the quarter ending the 30fch September last are valued at £564,950, and the exports during the same period at £386,570. The immigration and emigration returns show a large balance against the colony. Owing to a difficulty in obtaining subscriptions, the Ice Company are not likely to commence operations, and we shall probably have to do this summer without our usual cooling drinks. The Assembly adjourned to-day before the Amended Northern Territory Bill could be brought down from the Council. John Davis, the well-known jeweller of Bundle-street, and a very old colonist, is dead. The mining news is of the same character as before. One firm has shipped 3000z., the produce of the new goldfield. Mr Reynolds, the late Treasurer, intends to pay a visit to Tasmania. The Northern Territory Loan Bill provides for the raising of £40,000 by bonds bearing interest at six per cent., to be paid ofi ? between five and twenty years. The news from the Ear North reports the weather as continuing hot and dry. Rain was much wanted. The Northern Territory bills, providing for the survey and raising a loan to pay the expenses, have been read a third time, passed, and sent by message to the Upper House. The Chief inspector of Sheep, in his quarterly report, speaks favorably of the flocks. It is reported that Mr H. S. Galbraith, the inspector of sheep in the southeastern district, has caused a writ to be j served on Mr H. Kent Hughes, the Treasurer, for alleged mallacious libel,contained in a letter written by him to the late Commissioner of Crown Lands. In the corn market there is little doing but prices continue firm. In the Legislative Assembly, Mr Neville Blyth moved a resolution for an address to His Excellency the Governor asking him to take the necessary steps to authorise the introduction of a bill to rectify technical errors in mineral leases.