SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, 6th August.

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, 6th August.

It is intended to start a Salt Company here. The reports from Scott's Creek silver mine are of a most favorable character. The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have brought up a report on the | Insolvency law, and suggest many im- j portant and radical alterations in the present Act. j lOfch August. The third meeting of the Athletic Club on Saturday drew a large and fashionable attendance. Mrs Hamley, the wife of the Acting Governor, distributed the prizes on the ground. The assay of the silver ore found at Scott's Creek mine is stated to have shown a result equal to 3500z to the ton. The arrival of the Japan, at Sydney, with breadstuffs, has caused some commotion on change, and the corn market^ pending further advices, is at a standstill. 11th Auguat. The South Australian Insurance Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent, on the half-year. The Adelaide Marine Insurance Company have to pay a dividend of 10 per cent, for the year. There is no alteration to note in the corn market. The discoveries of silver in this colony, brought specially before the public yesterday, through the publication, of tie

Scott's Creek claim, arecreatu^^PSl deal of excitement. Levi's Wharf waa offered for sale by auction to-day, but was passed in aft L 14,300. Mea3ra Townsend, Botting, and Kaye were" the auctioneers, and tha wharf, situated at Port Adelaide, comprised a frontage of 152 feet. Several influential gentlemen connected ■with the pastoral interest are taking ut> the question of the establishment of a Bushman's Home in Adelaide, to be coaducted in the same way and on the same principle as a Sailors' Home. Mr Furniss, of the well-known firm of Messrs Johnston and Furniss, wine and spirit merchants, died this afternoon front disease of the heart. 14th August In tho Legislative Assembly there has been an animated and somewhat acrimonious debate on the land revenue question. The Government introduced & motion to amend the Sutherland Act, for the appropriation of the proceeds o£ the land sales, upon which an amendment | was moved to repeal the act altogether. Both the motion and amendment were negatived, the former by the casting vote of the Speaker. Levi's Wharf, which had been withdrawn at an auction sale on Wednesday, has been purchased by Messrs Levi and. Co., at the reserved price, viz., L14,300i The cargo of sugar ex Margaretta has been offered by auction, and about 10$ tons sold, at the following rates : — Fine ration, L 26 10s ; fine brown, L2B to L2B? 12s 6d ; bright yellows, L3O 5s to L 32 17s 6d ; brewing crystals, L 34 to L 35 : low to good white, L 35 to L 36. The com market remains quiet. There is some little excitement created in the city about the silver mines. New* discoveries are reported. Holders of. Almando shares ask L2O. The nomination for the Mount Barker election takes place on the 31st instant; The election is to be held over again, because the legal time had not expired between the issue of ihe writ and the nomination at the recent annual election. The corn market is dull, and iv the import market business is very qniet. 21st August. In the Legislative Assembly, to-day,, in consequence of the vote last night on the Northern Territory question, being adverse to the previously announced policy of the Government, the Premier announced that the Ministry had not treated the question as amounting to a want of confidence, and their intention was, therefore, to remain, in office and carry out the views indicated by a majority of the House. With, this view they would bring in a bill, in. accordance- with the resolutions carried yesterday, to provide for increased areas, instead of returning the money to the selectors ; aad, to facilitate this object, tenders would be at once called for, for the survey of the territory. The news brought by returned diggers from the goldfields at Gympie is of so unfavorable a character as likely to stojx any further exodus from here. In the corn market there is no change to report to-day. — Argus. The question of the existing brancfc. | postal service between Adelaide and King I George's Sound has been brought up in. | Parliament, and returns are to be furnished of the annual cost of the service to the colony. I There are fears expressed in somequarters (although they are generallyconsidered groundless) that the Albert Tower of the Town Hall may prove insecure, owing to the slight settlement which has been discovered in the foundations. The new tower of the new Post Office which is being built opposite to the Towa. Hall will be more massive still, and rests upon a similar substratum. The attention of the Government has been called to it in Parliament. Sydney, 17th August. The extraordinary tidal phenomenon which commenced on Saturday morning and extended along the coast northwards, to beyond Newcastle, continued throughout Saturday night and yesterday, only ceasing at night. The wave decreased in. volume until it altogether subsided. The action could have had nothing to do with, tidal influence, as the waves often came, in directly against the ebbing tide, and rose in the rivers against the tidal stream, producing a strong whirlpool. It is sn 1 ? posed to have resulted from volcanic action in the South Seas, at some distance eastward, and that the waves were the rings of the circle occasioned by such a phenomenon, expanding themselves on th« Australian coast. Some disasters to small craft happened at Newcastle. "Vessels were also torn away from their moorings, and the greatest alarm prevailed for some time amongst the shipping generally. Brewer, a clerk in the Insolvent Court, has been committed for trial for embezzlement.