SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 3 December 1845, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The Mining .Mania seems to prevail to a wonderful degree, a recent purchase had been made of 20,000 acres, it was said to contain Copper to an enormcus amount. —The irihaoitants highly reprobated the introduction of conditional pardon holders horn i'asuiunia.—Governor Grey is at the meridian of his populuiity.—Salt or a very superior quality is being manufactured.—A small but neat little Theatre has been fitted up at Adelaide, and a Tncatiicul Company is imicti wanted.—Despatches had been received from Captain Sturt, announcing ihe death of Mr Pooie the second iv commanu, and the di.bCe.vcry of an oasis in a desert, where the party had formed a depot. The desert is descriaed by Captain Sturt us being frightful in appearance, fend ot immense exitnt. The Uc.it of the sua was intense ; scurvy had attacked some of trie explorer.-. The gallant Captain bdieved himself near soau great ,iiilaud sea. ihoUiands cf birds had been flying over their heads, ana ail iv one oheciiun, ns if migrating to thd saaie .-pot. A native; ot a strange tribe had stopped with them some days, although ho could nt by words explain himseli, stiii by signs he made the Europeans unders.tiud that he knew the use of their boat and tueir fishing nets —that fuither oij they woul t find a lar-e body oi water, with a giganno fish in it. 1 curing a scarcity of pr.ivisioi.s, the Captain had sent back one-third ot the puny. The next accounts lrum him will be looked for with great ai.xiety. Such is the ascertained extent of the leviathan copper lode in the North, tuat it is said two special s-urveys will not nearly embrace it ; ai d Mr. Meiige informs us that he could point out upwards of a hundred copper mines between the head of Sptncer's Gulf and Caw er Town, there being here, what were never met witn before, literal rocks of copper.—South Australian.