SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Adelaide July 7. : ! The Milang Rifles accept the challenge received from the No. 2 Sydney Rifles. The South Australian Register of to-day publishes a most interesting report of a scheme suggested by Mr. Earl (lately arrived from Western Australia and the North Coast) for overland postal communication by horses, to meet telegraphic communication with small steamers eve: y twenty - five miles to the North Coast, and'thence by three small steamers to Singapore. The capital required to establish the scheme would be £250,000. Subsidies -would be required from the respective Governments of Australia to the extent of £12,500 annually. The horse-post would "bring nearly a week's later European news than the telegrams by the mail steamer do now, and at the same time would protect the erection of an overland telegraph line, which, on completion, woiild bring sev»al days' later news still. The project is considered likely to eclipse all others at present proposed, as being more economical. There were inquiries made from Sydney to-day for flour. Wheat is held for Us., and bran for Is. 6d.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 16 July 1864, Page 5
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