SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1265, 14 June 1870, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide, May 30. Captain Hart, who on Saturday last undertook the task of forming a new administration, has arranged the following Cabinet, viz : — Mr Milne, Chief Secretary; Mr Hart, Treasurer ; Mr Baker, AttorneyGeneral ; Mr Blyth, Commissioner of Crown Lands ; Mr Carry Commissioner of Public Works. The members were sworn in this morning. Chief Justice Hanson received the hearty congratulations of the members of the bar to-day, on taking his seat on the bench for the first time since his return from England. May 31. Ministers give but a gloomy account of the finances. There will be a very large deficit, and it will probably be necessary to borrow £100,000 to £150,000 to meet liabilities ; extra taxation will be imperatively necessary. Bespecting the overland telegraph to Port Darwin, Ministers, instead of a line via Port Augusta, will propose one via Wentworth as generally more convenient, and they will ask Victoria and New South Wales to share the cost of its construction. Ministers will shortly ask for an adjournment to enable them to send representatives to the Intercolonial Conference, and to prepare important measures. June 1. Thethreerioters among the unemployed, who were convicted at the Supreme Court, have been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. In the Assembly, Mr CottrelTs motion has been passed: — "That a bonus of £2000 shall be given to the first person or persons who shall manufacture in the colony 10,000 yards of woollen cloth from wool the produce of the colony." ". Wheat enquired for at 5s 4d, and holders aak one-halfpenny more. . June 2. In the Legislative Assembly, the Commissioner of Crown Lands has tabled new land regulations providing that all lands available for agricultural purposes be surveyed in blocks not exceeding 640 acres, and offered for selection at £1 per acre in 10 yearly instalments of -2s each. Provision is also made for further reducing the upset price of such land as shall remain unselected after a certain lapse of time. *, The present Government having adopted the Estimates of their predecessors, it is probable they will be passed in globo. The Government intend to introduce an Insolvency Bill, doing away with the assignment clause in the present act. The subscriptions to the Sailors' Home now amount to £3,230. June 3. His Excellency the Governor has presented to the Botanical gardens all the magnificent collection of birds which he received from India per the ship Bosa M.