SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 625, 20 October 1863, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide,

A specimen of conglomerate containing several large specks of gold, was picked up on the beach between Brighton and Glenelg a few days ago by a little girl. Sheep Shearing in the Far North.—A gentleman, writing on September 7, from a station near Nuccaleena, says ; —" Shearing commenced this" day week. It has been very cold, and quite unlike ordinary shearing weather; but wife are all in high spirits, as the sheep are cutting a good clip, and the wool is very clean. The feed is luxuriant — horses, bullocks, and sheep are all fat. If it were always like this, sheepfarming would indeed be a glorious life to lead; but unfortunately, we only enjoy such a season once in three or four years." — S. A. Register. Heavy Hailstorm.—A private letter from Mount Searle, dated September 8, states that they had in that neighborhood a fall of hail, the heaviest the writer had ever seen, on the 2nd September. " The hailstones were as large as marbles, and were lying two inches deep on the ground." The creeks were flooded higher than they had been before during the year. By a private source we also learn from Blanchewater that the floods were down from the far northwest, and Lake Hope was filling faat.—^lbid. The Blacks in the Fab Nobth. —Chiefinspector Hamilton, writing by the last mail from the Far North, on the 9th September, states that he had reached Angipena, and expected to arrive at Lake Hope in about a week. The only outrage which he mentions he had heard the blacks had committed was an attack upon some women at an out-station who were, however, preserved from injury by the opportune return of their husbands, one of whom caught one of the natives, and gave him a sound dressing. In some places unpro. tected huts had been robbed, and some cattle had been speared. The natives, however, appeared to have coteie down with no warlike intentions, as supposed; but their mission seemed to have been to the Aroona Ranges, where they collected a kind of red clay, and then returned.— lbid.

Colonising Company in South Austbalia. —The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide paper) understands that a meeting is to beheld sliortly to consider the practicability of forming a Company to colonize and settle the new territory on the North Coast, recently added to this colony. From the manuscript prospectuses we have seen, we learn that the proposed capital of the Company is £500,000.

The commissariat department have called for tenders for the conveyance of a detachment of the 40th regiment to New Zealand. They will be received until the 3rd of October.

Markets are generally quiet. Sales of country brands of flour are reported at £14.