SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 653, 4 June 1864, Page 16

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide, 19th May; Wheat iB quoted to-day at 9s 3d, and flour at L23to L 25;2 5; bran at Is 3d.

Sydney, 18th May. 5562 bags of flour, 246 of wheat, and 718 of bran, have been received from Adelaide. The flour market is quiet. There are no speculative purchases, but small sales at L2B. The Singleton mail has been stopped at Grass-tree-hill, six miles south of Musswell-brook, by three mounted and armed men. Only one passenger was in the coach, and a few shillings were taken from him and restored. Twenty mail bags were cat open and plundered. The driver gathered up the residue of the letters, and went on to Singleton. All the mounted police in the district went in pursuit. The btdy of Colville has been found, with deep gashes in the neck. It was laying outside a tent on Pyramid Creek, Tamboora, The murderer is unknown.

Brisbane via Stdhby, 18th May. Howson, Feg&n, Webster, and Wright, prisoners in fiockhampton gaol, looked the turnkey in a cell, and escaped. The police are searching for them.

In the Lower House, & vote for railw&y extension from Little Liverpool to Dalby has been carried by a majority of ten. ■Parliament has adjourned till the 26th instant.

Adelaidh, 18th May. There is no demand for floor. Prices (thoroughly nominal) range from L 24 upwards. Town millers offer 8s per bushel for wheat, and sellers hold for 9s Bd. Small quantities are purchasable at 9s. No business is doing. Scarlatina is still prevalent at Wellington, on the Murray.

Why should you be justified in picking the pockets of a vendor of engravings ?— Because he has pict-ures.

The man who can crack a joke in half a minute after a fifty-two pound weight has fallen on his toes, 'may be called excruciatingly funny.

There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, but there are many more slips after the cup has been drained by toe lips.