The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

[Prom Mears. S. W. Silver and Co's. Summary of
Latest Intelligence.]

VI°TOR/A.—Population on 31st March, 610,250.
Revenue for quarter ending 30th Jane £719,225.
Number of emigrants arrived in Jane, 2,02 i. Amended
emigration regulations will come into operation let
August, whereby persons desiroos of sending for their
friends or others in the United Kingdom, will have to
pay, for male assisted emigrants under the age of
fifteen, £2; between the ages of fifteen and forty, £5;
aged forty and upwards, £8 ; proportionate reduction
made for females. A nugget of pure gold, weighing
169 ou has been found at Gooseberry Hill, Dunolly.
Discovery of tin made within forty miles of Melbourne.
—July, 1865.

Nuw. SOUTH WALSIA —Parliament prorogued until
September sth. Valuable deposit of iron ore found
near Singleton, aloes to Northern Railway. Operations
to be crannied at Morays Silver Mine. Petroleum
Company formed two miles from West Maitland with
' satiefactory result. Company incorporated for manu-
facture of paper near Liverpool.—July, 1865.
1 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Colony in highly prosperous
state. Abundant rains, and crops looking very well.
Mining operations continue to be carried on with grow-
ing Stteeese. Number of emigrants to Port Adelaide to
July has been 3,829. Skilled labour greatly in demand.
Introduction of Irish emigrants by means of the assisted
passage 'yearn has been renewed. In one day 816
passages were applied for, and the sum paid amounted
to nearly £4,000. Government land sales for the past
month have realised £38,397. Wheat still keeps up,
and farmers are buying enormous breadths of land at
very high prices. Streets lit with gas at Adelaide on
let July. A gold-Said discovered not far from Mount
Murchison, near Barrier Ranges. Indications' of a large
quantity of copper in neighbourhood of Kadina. A
South Australian Coal Coin. yin course of formation
at Adelaide. Population 1.1,000. At Port Adelaide,
to July, the imports were £1,467,160: exports,
£1,275,570; Customs' receipts, £132,806.—Ju1y, 1865.
QUZINSLAND. —The Assembly have authorised a line
of telegraph to Peak Downs. The railway to Bigglis
camp will be opened on the 31st. Mail service via
Torres 13,raits asked for. Coal mining near Marl-
borough continues prosperocut —July, 1865.

TAME kNIE.—Some good gold has been found at
Devil's Den diggings; prospects are most enoouraging.
Emigration much called for.—dnly, 1865.
NEW ZEALANP.—Auokland : Population in Decent.
her, 1864. 171,931, exclusive of military and families.
Gold r—Nrimot of finding the reef on the Hawke creek,
from , fine gold has been discovered. Wellington:
The 1 Zealand parliament was to assemble on the
24th (. Qtaga Gold fields yielding largely and as
- ever. At the West Coast gold-field a large
is settling, and the yield of gold is very
. The flokitika diggings in flourishing
Timken rising in importance.—July, 1865.
revenue for the year ending
556,064, showing a net increase
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