COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 163, 19 April 1845, Page 28

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

South Australia. — Mining operations are going on successfully in South Australia. The lead, produced in abundance, is now smelted, and the silver extracted on the spot. A large demand exists for this article in China. — Two seams of coal have been discovered ; one thirty, and the other seven miles from Adelaide. As this last is still Government ground, its position is kept secret. — A new and rich sheep country has been discovered at Port Lincoln. — Three men have been remanded for the murder of some natives, on the sole evidence of a native. — The number of sheep in the colony is 450,300. The number of bales of wool exported in 1 843-4 was 3,792. — A Mr. Duffield has been retailing colonial made wine at 425. per dozen, made from the last year's grape ; it is highly spoken of. — A direct road has been discovered to Portland. — Steers are £4 to £4 10s. each ; sheep 7s. to 78. 6d. each. — Hobart Town Advertiser.

Horse Stock. — This description of stock has within the last month acquired an increased value of five-and-twenty per cent. Information has reached this district to the effect that a selection of horses is about to be made in the middle district for the Indian market. We can divine no other cause for the improved prices lately observable. — Port Phillip Standard. Port Phillip Statistics. — Twenty-four vessels arrived from British and foreign ports, exclusive of the colonies, during the past year; 5,327 head of cattle were slaughtered at the licensed slaughtering-houses in Melbourne, an increase of 1,631 over the year preceding; 63,532 sheep, 3,000 cattle, 30 hogs were boiled | down, and produced 820 tons 7 cwt. tallow and 500 cwt. lard.

Sydney Wool Market. — The prices at which good fleece wool sold during the last week in January varied from Is. 2d. to Is. 34d. per lb., but what reached the last [figure was very superior. Some inferior and grassy parcels were sold at from Is. to Is. lid.

Death from Starvation. — On the 26th of January, the remains of a man were found in Bungarrabee Brush, [near Parramatta, the flesh of which was entirely gone. On the leather peak of a cap found near the remains, was cvt — " Frederick Hovenden, died of hunger." The remains were those of Major Hovenden, who left Sydney in July, 1543, and had not before been heard of. — Maitland Mercury. :