SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 170, 7 June 1845, Page 54

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Multum in Parvo.— The Bank of South Australia, and the Adelaide Branch of the Bank of Australasia, have reduced the interest on deposits to two per cent.— The premises of Murray, Greig, & Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide, 80 feet frontage by 90 to 100 feet back, brought at public auction £992, cash. Mr. Featberstone bought the shop frontage and entrance, 45 feet, for £662, and Messrs. Flett & Lmklater the remaining 35 feet, for £330; showing the cash

value fit the frontages to be about £10 per foot — at the rate of £5,000 per acre-£-which is nearly as high as it ever has been. — On Saturday, March 29th, Wira Maldira, one of the Lake Victoria tribe of natives, was executed in front of the gaol, Adelaide, in conformity with his sentence at the late sessions, for the murder of George M'Grath, in June, 1844.— A South Australian branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society was formed at Adelaide on the 24th of March, of which his Excellency Governor Grey is president. — The contract for building the jetty at Portland has been obtained by Mr. Scott, the ship-builder, for £1,280. — Great complaints are made in Van Diemen's Land in consequence of the English Banks there not reducing their discounts to the rate charged in Sydney. — The Roman Catholic Bishop in Van Diemen's Land has put forward an earnest appeal to the members of his church for assistance towards providing for the maintenance of some Sifters of Charity who are to be sent from this colony. — Thers is a great want of rain in Van Diemen's Land. — A great portion of the tallow produced at the boiling-down establishment of the Messrs. Henty, at Portland Bay, is sent to England via Launceston. — The Government has determined to deprive the inhabitants of Launceston of the old race-course, the only place of recreation they possess. It is to be fenced in, and occupied as a garden for convicts. — Fielding Browne, Esq., is gazetted judge, and Alban Charles Stoner, Esq., crown prosecutor, of Norfolk Island.— One hundred persons left Launceston in one day, as passengers by the Swan and Minerva, for Port Phillip and Portland Bay.— Mr. T. Y. Lowes sold 4,000 sheep at the Cross Marsh, near Launceston : the prices realized were full 25 per cent, more than they have been obtained for some time back. — A match came off on the course at Hobart Town, on the sth April, for a hundred guineas a side, between Mr. Dry's Colonel and Mr. Stevenson's Whalebone; distance, two miles : Colonel beat easily. — Sydney Herald.