SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1243, 26 April 1870, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide, April 12. The Government schooner G-ulnare" leaves this for Port Darwin immediately after the holidays. Captain Sweet, of the Gulnare, has been completely exonerated by the commission of inquiry from all the charges brought against} him. Capt. Osborne, R.N., has arrived by the mail steamer in Adelaide. His mission ia" to promote telegraphic extension to Australia, and with this object in view he will visit the other colonies. Capt. Osborne is the originator of the company which pledges itself to land a cable at Port Darwin in 1871, and carry the land line thence to Burke Town in Queensland, or otherwise, as the Australian Colonies may agree upon. April 13. The report as to the proceeds of Australian produce forwarded to India, I per the Jane Bell, is generally unfavorable. The members of the Northern Territory expedition are petitioning the Government on the matter of the bonus promised them, and the bad quality of the rations served out. " . The com market is very firm, with a tendency upward, and no wheat is offering. 5 .. ; April 15. The engineer-in-chief reports that there is only 28 days' supply of water in the reservoir. In the import markets, sugars meet with ready sale ; 1,000 bags were disposed of to day at full rates.