SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume V, Issue 341, 24 April 1844, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

We have received a large file of South Australian Journals. In our columns will be found an interesting article upon the aborigines of that colony. The colonists are working lead and copper mines, and shipping the ore for England. Scarcity of freights for England was complained of by the Adelaide shippers. The colony gets on bravely, and the export trade in bark, wheat, ore, wool, and various articles, is increasing. — Port Phillip Gazette.

The taking of the census of the population of South Australia commenced on the 26th February, as appointed by an Act of Council recently passed.

By reference to our last accounts from Adelaide it will be ' seen that mention was made of a sale of Government land, one lot, consisting of eighty acres, having been purchased for £780, the price given being more than it would have been but for the presence of copper in the land. Cornish miners were engaged, and the speculation promises such success that the original purchasers on dividing the properly into one hundred shares of £50 each, reserving fifty-two shares for themselves, at once disposed of the remaining fortyeight shares. It is to be hoped, for the sake of the new shareholders, that the speculation will not fail in the end. A lead mine was also in full operation ; in one week twq men raised two tons and a half of ore. The exports of wheat were still going on, and all despondency as to the future prospects of the colony appears to have passed away.

The barque Symmetry was about to leave for the Cape with 20,000 bushels of wheat, which it was expected would find a good market, in consequence of the recent ravages of the locusts at the Cape.—sSyrfney Herald.