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, the Mount Remarkable, and the Gawler Ranges, as localities containing the formation likely to lead to the discovery of available Gold Fields, it was resolved that the Commissioners should meet and decide upon a plan for preliminary operations, to be submitted to a general meeting of the Committee, A very confident belief was expressed in the existence of a remunerative Gold Field at the place recently indicated by common report, namely, from the head of Tanunda Creek to the Murray Scrub, by way of Flaxman Valley and the North Rhine, We hope that persons having leisure will endeavour to anticipate the action of the Committee, and lay claim, as soon as possible, to the reward."

We find also that trade on the "Murray" is thus alluded to in the same paper, of the 7th of June:—

"The sooner the Murray railway is completed, the better it will be for the interests of this colony: but so far as the trade with the Gold Fields is concerned, there is every inducement for anticipating the locomotive engine, and for carrying on the traffic forthwith by water. There are now no fewer than four companies running steamers on the Murray, the result of the competition being a reduction of freight, and, consequently, increased inducements to merchants who may feel inclined to ship stores for the diggings. The season, now increasingly unfavourable to land carriage, facilitates the navigation of the Murray. On Saturday last, the River Murray Navigation Company's steamer Gundagai left the Goolwa