SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 138, 15 June 1867, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CLIPPINGS.

il The revenue for the March quarter I amounted to £185,123 17s. lid., and the vj expenditure to £280,412 3s. lOd. The a imports for the same quarter were ■j -£704,729 155., of which -£7-1,063 were 1 re-exported ; and the exports £834,420. ;■: The immigration from Great Britain Avas . 434 passengers, and from British colonies !> 592 ; and the emigration to Great Britain •,} 114 passengers, and to British colonies j 870.— The Boothby difficulty still conI tinues. Mr. Justice Boothby has in open | Court, and day after,, day, declared that | his colleagues the Chief Justice and Mr. I Justice Gwynne are unlawful pretenders j to judicial power, and that all their acts > are null and void, thus invalidating every • act passed by the Parliament of South ] Australia. The other two Judges have 'i been compelled to close the Court, leaving ,; over 30 important cases pending. Since : then the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice ■I G-Avynne have formally memorialised the '; Government ; and it is reported that Mr. . Gwynne has, conditionally, tendered his > resignation. Despatches Avere received }by the last mail, intimating that the | colony must take the removal of Mr. ;' Justice Boothby upon themselves, and ! not throw any responsibility upon t!;e 'Home Government. — Miss Aitken and •'{ Mr. and Mrs. George Case have been i performing to large audiences in Adelaide and in the country districts. The Cases . are going to L-dia. — An address and purse ! of sovereigns have been presented to the ; Rev. Samuel Ironside on his departure for i Tasmania. The Revs. S. Knight and J. ; Y. Simpson, Wesleyan ministers, have arrived to succeed the Revs. S. Ironside and J. D. Robin (who has gone to Victoria). — ] Br. Sheil, Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, . left for Rome by last mail, haviug been \ summoned thither by the Sovereign Pon- ] tiff. — At a recent kangaroo hunt at Mount '■ Gambier, South Australia, in which Mr. Justice Gwynne and alarge and influential party joined, as many as 150 kangaroos ■• were destroyed. — It has been resolved to . establish a homeopathic dispensary in i Adelaide for tbe sick poor, and an influential Committee has been appointed to conduct the same. — The arguments in the Moonta case commenced before the Judges in the Supreme Court, on the 3rd instant. Another scene occurred, in consequence of Judge Boothby persisting iv his objections to the validity of the AttorneyGeneral's appointment, and otherwisesthrowing obstacles in the way of the proceedings. — The fine sheet of water, formed by the construction of the Torrens Dam, is the daily attraction of the inhabitants of Adelaide, and 30 pleasure-boats are now plying upon it.