Page:The Present State and Prospects of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.djvu/36

 extracted from the "South Australian Newsletter," of the r2th December, 1843, which gives some of the statistics of South Australia, and which professes to be made up from official sources: from this the following particulars are taken:—

The wheat is valued at 6s. per bushel, and the flour at £14 per ton, which is one-fifth too much. There is stated to be a surplus quantity of grain, amounting to 200,000 bushels.

It gives me pleasure to be able to say, that I have heard from several sources that South Australia is fast emerging from her difficulties, and that there also the revival of prosperity is attributed to the throwing overboard the Wakefield system of concentration, and giving their attention to pastoral pursuits. The British government have, however, made a free gift to South Australia of £150,000, and have allowed the governor to draw