The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

some distance from the old diggings on that creek.
From Fryer's Creek to Loddon is said to be 40
miles. On the 12th a man had arrived from the
latter place with six pounds' weight of gold, the
fruit of 10 days' toil. The best Van Diemen's
Land flour was selling at Fryer's Creek at 41. per
bag ; potatoes, 9d. per lb. ; apples, Is. a dozen ;
pudding raisins, Is. ; and bread and meat at former
quotations. Gold buyers were offering 31.125. 6d.
In the district of Belfast, on the 31st of January,
hundreds of acres of wheat were ripe for the sickle.
The harvest was plentiful, but the labourers few.
Though 355. an acre was the price for cutting,
many and many a field would fall ere a hook could
be put into it.

A letter from Geelong, of the 17th February,
says the bidding at the Government land sale on
the 16th was spirited, and the prices realised were
as high as on any former occasion. Unseasonable
weather had prevailed during the previous week.
The South Australian Register, of the 7th, states
that,

"Although there is at the diggings everything to in-
dicate gold in large quantities, none have succeeded in
realising their hopes. The majority content themselves
with what they can get on Chapman's hill and gully,
knowing that, if a fresh place is discovered, they will
stand as good a chance as those who have spent months
in trying to find better ground. The quantity of gold
taken to the Assay-office having, during four consecutive
weeks, amounted to less than 4,000 ounces, the Gover-
nor has proclaimed that after the 17th of February the
office will be closed."

The sale of Crown lands on the 10th of February
exceeded by upwards of 7801. that of any one day's
sale during this or the past year. The average
price was a fraction over 11. Bs. per acre. Last
sale of Burras, 1331.
Dalton and Kelly, two notorious bushrangers
and murderers, have been captured. The former
was seeking change for notes at 11 o'clock at night
at a coffeeshop, when Brice, formerly a cadet in
the police force, offered to procure it, and, instead
of taking him home, led Dalton by a back road
into the police station, where he was secured, with
three loaded pistols, with one of which he would
have shot Brice, had he not been overpowered.
Large sums of money were in his pockets, and he
and his comrade would have been off on the next
day by the Northumberland, had not Dalton been
so cleverly and courageously captured by Brice.
From the commercial intelligence of the Mel-
bourne Argus, February 16th, the following is
extracted :

" Price of gold yesterday was 31. 15s. 6d. per ounce ;
English and colonial cheese, Is. 40. per pound ; Van
Diemen's Land flour, 161. 10s. per ton ; men's navvy
boots, 275. per pair ; palings, 545. per 100 ; quartering,
465. to 50s. ; Singapore cedar, 9-inch wide, 61d. the
running foot ; apples, 14s. 6d. per bushel ; pickles, 18s.
per dozen ; onions, 61. per pound ; black pepper, 9id. ;
Liverpool salt, 51. 10s. per ton ; loaf sugar, 10d. per
lb. ; colonial butter, ls. W. Auction sales—real pro-
perty, western half-acre, 308, Grote-street, 4001. ; two
acres and cottage, at Mount Batker, 2001. ; section,
No. 40, in the Morundee special survey, with a public-
house thereon, 3001. ; a plot of land at North Adelaide,
with 30 feet frontage to Dunn-street, 661."
Steam fares to and from Melbourne and Geelong
—cabin, 20s. ; fore cabin, 12s. 6d. ; freight, 30s.

per ton.
The steam-ship Melbourne was expected at Port
Flap on the 15th of February from Sydney.
Vessels advertised for London : The Bombay,
Sth of February ; Henry Gillespie, 19th ; Bar-
rackpore, Syria, Florence, Beulah, Queen of Eng-
Land, and Blackwall, 20th ; Ann Bridson, and
Aberfoyle, Ist of March ; Vindermere, Nelson,
and James Alexander, 7th ; Emigrant and Con-
dor, 10th ; Golden-Land, 15th ; and Clara Symes,
20 th .