The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-14 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(Trom the Cork Constitution.)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

(From the Colonial Time.! of January 1, 1839, published in

Hobart Town.)

We have received South Australian papers to the Bth of
December, and subjoin such local intelligence as may be
interesting_i—

NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL. The ceremony of laying
the foundation stone of this building took place on Tuesday
last, and at the appointed hour hundreds of individuals had
gathered together to witness a scene gratifying to the feelings
of every colonist, and of peculiar interest to those whose
anxious desire is that, as.we advance in temporal things, so
should our colony continue to maintain and extend its oppor-
tunities for religious instruction. After singing a suitable
hymn, the Rev. W. Longbottom engaged in prayer, and in
a most impressive manner entreated the Divine blessing to
rest upon the services of the day, twd upon the temple about
to be erected. His Excellency the Governor then proceeded
to lay the stone, inserted within it a scroll of lead engraved
with the following inscription :
" The Foundation Stone of this Building was laid by his
Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler, Governor of
South Australia, XXVII. November, ,MDCCCXXXVIII.
The Rev. Wm. Longbottom, Resident Missionary. Trustees:
Jacob Abbott, John Boots, Robert S. Breeze, Wm. Collins,
Samuel East, William Lillecrap, William Mincham, Archi-
bald Macdougall, William Pearse, John B. Shepherdson,
Thomas P. Heep, Edward Stephens. Architect: G. S.
Kingston. Builders: Messrs. East and Breeze."
His Excellency then delivered a short and appropriate ad-
dress, complimenting the zeal and usefulness of the Wes-
leyan body •, calling upon the Christian ministers of the
colony to cultivate feelings of brotherly love, and to emu-
late each other in good works ; and entreating all present
especially to remember their sable and degraded brethren,
the aborigines.
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After the doxology, the Rev. T. S. Stow, the Independent
minister, concluded the meeting by a most powerful prayer,
and the numerous and respectable assembly separated
evidently much interested in the ceremony that they had
witnessed.

The children of the Wesleyan Sunday School amounting
to upwards of 80, were assembled upon the ground, and they
had a very pleasing appearance.

The trustees and several friends took tea together in the
evening, and followed up the appeal of his Excellency on
behalf of the native population by commencing a subscrip-
tion for the maintenance of a pastor for them, and fifteen
guineas were immediately subscribed. We trust the subject
will not now be allowed to drop.
ARRIVAL OF THE RAJASTHAN.—The Rajasthan arrived
from London yesterday afternoon with 230 emigrants, having
sailed the 26th July.
PRICE OF BREAD.—The recent high price of this impor-
tant article of consumption demands the attention of the
public and of the colonial government. We are satisfied,
from the information we have received, that the price at pre-
sent charged is at least one-third more than it ought to be,
with reference to the price of flour. Some sort of check
should be placed upon the charges of the baker: probably
the most effectual and wholesome would be a determination
on the part of the public to patronise any baker who would
make good bread and sell it at a fair and reasonable profit.
It would well answer the purpose of any respectable baker to
open an establishment upon such terms.
EXPORTS.—The gratifying sight of dray loads of wool pass-
ing through the town has gladdened our eyes during the week.
A good deal of wool goes in the Mumford and Lady Emma
to Launceston to be shipped for London. We understand
that the company's clip this year is valued at £7OO. The
samples of our colonial wool which we have seen appear very
excellent, and we doubt not South Australian wool will fetch
a good price in the home market. We trust great pains will
be taken with it, that we may not be behind our neighbours
in weight, cleanliness, and quality.
ARRIVAL OF MR. HAWDON.—This enterprising gentle-
man arrived in the Mary Pelham on Thursday last from
Sydney. He sent off from the interior of New South Wales,
overland from our colony, before his departure, a fine herd
of 400 head of fat cattle and cows.

VALUE OF TOWN LAND.-Our friends in England will be
somewhat astonished when they hear that the twentieth part
of an acre in this city sold the other day at a public auction
for the sum of £7O. cash. The sale was effected by Mr.
Neale Bentham, on Saturday the 4th instant, and the situa-
tion of the land is an acre in Rundle-street.

We have been much gratified by a visit to the ship Prince
George just arrived from Hamburg, with a large number of
German emigrants. This vessel is in the highest order, and
the emigrants have come out happy and contented, and ex-
press themselves fully satisfied with their kind treatment.
Great praise is due to the captain and to Mr. Hexman, the
supercargo, for their unremitting attendance to the passengers
on the voyage.
WooL.—We are pleased to learn that the clip has this year
more than realized the expectations of the flock owners. We
hope shortly to be able to give the average clip of the prin-
cipal flocks in the colony.
His Excellency has appointed a board, consisting of the
following gentlemen :—O. Giles, T. Gilbert, C. C. Dutton,
and J. W. Bull, Esquires, to require into, and report upon,
the necessity or advisability of allowing brick-making and
stone-quarrying on the Park land.