The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

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province of Victoria, and, a similar reserve having bees
already made for that province, the land on both sides of
the river is thus thrown open to agricultural settlers '
from Albury to Goolwa, ; the present laldecs-of ire.storali
liceu es, however, are to be allowed free riiht of keel"
to the river side. The land will be pUt up for salts AS
soon as the necessary surveys can be made. lill the •
Murray was opened to navigation by steam the :district '
was exclusively occupied for cattle runs, under tba.;i---,sa
licenses ; a tract of land four miles in width and t
length is now to be thrown into the market,id the
facilities the river furnishes for communication with the
coast will soon render the allotments valuable.. '
' " The last lettings of the Burra-Burra Coppex 4
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had been more favourable than any since the sus , . • •
of the works by the rush of labour to alicogoidi
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"The publidlantSales for the firstrittnertee. of - 1854
show an increase of purchases to the aisionnt*Koom
above the return for the coiTespondingrquer*ags.
" Complaints are still made of the soaroitinn bent' -
thousands of agricultural labourers and ',mums:,
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find employment at high wages ; a thousando7oW
named class, it is said, could be employed let 4_____ _ -..
wo..
' quarry of copper,' the Burra-Bbrra. iittiln.neiowalgdineo;• \mll"
A delaide Times says, every colon's , _,
inquiring where sufficient labour to' stitiply MS teokT
sities is to come froM.'
"A bill had been brought into the Ocetecil of Tat
Diemen's Land to extend the electoral- districts luid,in-
crease the number of representatives. The -papers MA:
gest thiit the Constitution Act should be suspeOde4 lora,
.some time, that it might be ascertained how thou' •
Victoria and New South %Vales would work.
"The revenue of the colony for the first quartet of
1854 shows a surplus over the expenditure of 85,40 g,
11s. Bd. The total of the receipts is 257.8721. Us. 6&S ,
against an annual expenditure of 191,443/. 3s. 10d. '
"At the last sitting of the Supreme Court at Hobert
Town there were no prisoners for trial. It is the brat
' maiden session' ever held in the oolimy;
" On the 22d of March Robert Town was visited with
another inundation, the second within a short porind,
by which immense datuage was done to houses and
buildings. Three men were drowned, two of them con- '
victs. The loss of property by the two floods is vavi•
ously estimated at from 50,0001. to-120,0001.
The order in Council of the 29th December, 185 S, re•
pealing the former order of the 4th of September, 1848,
continuing Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island as -
penal settlements, when New South Wales and Victoria
ceased to be so, had been received in the colony, to the
great satisfaction of the inhabitants.
" Business has not been so much stimulated by the
warlike intelligence from Europe as anticipated. •
Stocks are very large, and though the holders retain
them a little more firmly, there is not likely to be any
great rise in prices frqm anything but actual consump-
tion. The bank has raised the rate of discount to 6 per
cent. The insurance offices are demanding war risks
for England.
"Tile price of gold in Sydney, on the 4th of May,
was 3/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. 18s. per oz. The stock of gold
in the city was small."