SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVIII, Issue 1609, 17 September 1862, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Wr have papers to the 23rd ultimo, fioin \ delude The Adiatisa; in its surnmaiy of tint date supplies us with the following items of news • — An aboriginal has been sentenced to death for the nun dei of a shepheid nt one of the out stations 'Die winter tains— upon which, wo may *ay, evuv thing depends in South Australia— have fallen continuously and copiously, for home time, uid oui pros pects foi thi. next hmpst aie exceedingly good. Although the agsjiogitc lam fall has not been gieater than in ->e\ci il previous jeais, the floods liave been veiy se\cie, the cieeks ha\mg mn down v ith gre.it velocity, ".weeping away bridges, washing away sur fare soil and destroying a considei.ible unio'int of propci ty We legiet to st"Ue that oeveial poisons have been washed away and ih owned, both in the immediate vninity of Adelaide and al«o m the countiy distuct-). Pailiamenl continues sitting, aud the business of the session is bung rapidly advanced Amongst the measures leccntly introduced we may specially men tion a bill foi Meaning sacredly the proceeds of the sales of waste lands. The objects to which the land fund is to be Ret apart arc three —the national debt, public works, and iinmigiation. The sum of £25,000 has be mi \oted by Pailiament for introducing immigrants dinmg the yeii ending June 30, 1863, but this sum will piobably be increased by the Act referred to. Mmmg 1 opeiations continue to engage the attention of a large mimbnr of out most enterpiising colonists, and to awaken the hopes of all classes. Eveiy month adds fie-sh proof to founoi 1 evidence of the exhaustless wealth of our mineral deposit* ; in fact, it in not too much to stite that we .shall soon in ike mining our fiist consuleia'ion and our chief dependence in an industiial point of view. The House of Assembly have been for some tune pant anxiously occupied in studying the question of oni mining economy generally ; and wo hopo soon to have a new and much moro hbeial code of mining i emulations. The Chief lnspectoi of sheep has sported upon the flocks of the colony for the quartet, ending June 30. The disease, though it has not yet disappeared, ia now " di awing to a, close " Mr M'Arthur'i, west of Mosquito Plains, and Mr. Cooke'a, south-cast of Rait Greek, being the only two stations on which theio are any diseased sheep, and even on these stations the number does not exceed 2,000. Mr Uooko's losi h»s been very heavy. Thciepoit adverts to the protection against the introduction of disease, affoHed by the fencing of runs on the bonier, and the additional protection to be derived fiom the new Victouan Scab Act The laspcotor finds fault with the cnieleß* way in which some flockmasters manage their diseased sheep ; but ho abstains from naming the parties he refeis to. On the other hand ha n lines, with special praibc, Dr. Dickson, Mr. Riddock, and Mi. Seymour, whose cnreful and systematic treatment of their diseased flocks has I eta clowned with the ino«t complete success. Theso flocks — now peifeclly cured —have had ninety per cei.t. of lamlm. The lambing season in the southeast is reported to

bo " nil thai could bo desired,'' but the disti ictn noith of Mount Blown have not tinned out so well, the percentage of lambs being very low, and many old sheep ha\ ng died. The cauio is want ot grass, and the late ami [mi tml character of the r»im.