SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 268, 14 November 1861, Page 3

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Mr. Stuart lias returned. The chief matters of interest connected with the expedition just terminated relate to that part of the exploration made between the point reached by Mr. Stuart last year and that which... rlias :no>y -been . attained. Over this country,which is,comprised within a square space of two degrees .of latitude and longitude and in which the farthest point reached was lat. 17°; long.: 133°, there were made during the months of May and June twelve or fourteen resolute attempts to find a route either to tlie northwest or to the North. But all these attempts failed."

But Mr. Stuart believes that there are undoubtedly good routes across the narrow strip of country which stopped him. though those routeshaveuot j'et been found. Then there is the encouraging,' • fact that many parts of the country on this side of the scrub and forest are of an excellent character. Fine alluvial soil, large lagoons, luxuriant grasses, and timber of tropical’magnifi 'euce, point to a region -admirably adapted to the cultivation of cotton and other Eastern products. -"A similar, If ' hot sup.tr or, country \ve know there is; on the other siu« ,pf.the '.whejSjpfor€id; ; to unite the coast-hne 'with.tljednteriptjinust’ at once be thb : fehewed work of this' colony. Mr. Stuart, we understand, is ready to resume the enterprise without delay. ' Permanent water may be counted upon the whole distance from South Australia to some',,wav beyond the farthestf-point of last year’s expedition—water so reliable that Mr. •Stuart would, even at this advanced'period of the .year, willingly start with 500 horse , and - take them"' to'‘ the farthest stoppii g place made'by’liimin tbehorth-west—that is t<uyitUin, 200 miles of the coast. From this it will be seen ho\v practicable is the very centre of what a short time since was called the “ Australian Desert.” But not only over one line of couutiy is there; an abundant supply of grass and water. Mr. Atuart turned occasionally to the fight and to the left as he passed through the centra of the continent, and everywhere 1 he' found fresh water, wh M. in no case was, it .brackish' beyond Jat. 20° The boundary of oiTr 'own colony ended his trmibie-'intliis respect, until he reachedtbe , new 4 country in the extreme where he early for .the summer rains, interior :g(?nera!ly. then, is shown to .be a j well i watered * rout Fry, alternately ; grassy-l&hd pbbrj"*ajid-- with few ranges of inapor,tnnre, the highest being the Afac Z/oiipoll I'ange, in lat. 24,° one portion of Bluff—is estimated by .vlr. S.uAi ua uuVO luo.t in height.