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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. j
Council Chamber, September 12.-His Excellency
the Lieutenant Governor has been pleased to direct ¡
that the following abstract of an ordinance, about !
to be introduced by his Excellency into the Legis
lative Council of South Australia, be published for
general information*-W. L. O'HALLORAN, Clerk of
Council.
For making a Railway from the City to the Port of]
Adelaide, with Branches providing Railioay Ac- i
commodation Northward of the Present Place ef l
Shipment, and to the North Arm, to be called j
" The Adelaide City and Port Railway" \
Preamble. ;
Subscribers. i
Confirmation of deed of settlement. i
Incorporation of general ordinances. |
Incorporation of certain provisions in the Com- '
names' Clauses' Consolidation Act.
Short Title of Act.
Interpretation of the words " Undertaking " and
" Attorney of the Company."
Capital.
Number and amount of sharer
Calls.
Interest may be paid on calls.
Saving the powers of the attorney of the directors. 1
Number of directors in the province.
Appointment of chairman of- the directors and
and vice-chairman of the company.
First directors within the province.
Who are to continue in office until the first meet
ing'after passing of Act.
flotation of directors.
Quorum.
Committee of directors,
i Power to make railway according to deposited
plans.
Main line of railway.
Branch railway to the harbor northward of the
present place of shipment.
Branch railway to the North Arm.
List of crossings on the leveL
Lands for additional stations.
Periods within which lands are to be purchased.
Period of completing works.
Grants and privileges to revert, if railway be not
completed within three years.
Tolls. i
Tonnage on articles conveyed.
Tolls for passengers and cattle.
Tolls to include use of locomotive power.
Regulations as to tolls.
Tolls for separate parcels.
Company to be entitled to receive a fixed sum per
ton for short distances.
Passengers' luggage.
Provision for future Acts.
Saving rights of the Crown.
Exemption from local rates.
Public Act.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Adelaide, September 13tb, 1849. ]
His Excellency the Lieut.-Govoruor directs the j
publication of the following extract for general in- j
formation. By His Excellency's command. CHARLES
STURT, Colonial Secretary.
Extract from Mineralogical Report of Sectiom in
the Port Lincoln District
1st September, 1849.
Sir-I have the honor to report for the informa
tion of his Excellency the Governor, the result of
Mr Trewartha's examination of the different parts
of the District of Port Lincoln, supposed to contain
minerals.
Mr Trewartha's investigation extended from North
Side Hill (about two miles south-west from Port
Lincoln), to a spot about twenty miles north of
Franklin Harbour.
The other sections referred to, presented no mi
I neral indications, but in their immediate neighbour
hood there is a large body of iron running nearly
north and south, and rising in several places more
than forty feet above the common surface level. It
may be traced for more than five miles, and is found
in connexion with manganese,and lime-opal-asbestos,
and the carbonate of magnesia, &c. ; specimens of
the whole may fae seen in the Land Office. Eight
sections have been surveyed at Timby Bay, which
were applied for with a view to the formation of a
township ; they are in low, flat ground, and contain
no metallic minerals.
At Mount Liverpool, again, six sections have been
surveyed, upon two of which, Sections 827 a»d 828,
copper was reported to have been found ; but after
a careful examination, Mr Trewartha was unable to
discover any, nor is it his opinion that there is any
probability of copper being found there in any con
siderable quantity.
Mr Trewartha next turned his attention to Lip
eon's Cove, where eight sections have been surveyed |
but without making any valuable discovery. On the j
beach, however, about the high wxter mark, and a j
little below it, in front of Section 835, a lode was !
found about fifty fathoms in length, varying from !
twelve to eighteen inches in width, the underlay be- j
ing about 30° west. It rugs nearly north and!
south, and consiste of blue und green corbouate of
copper, and,iron found in a talcous gneiss formation.
Specimens of the mineral and of the rock, have
been brought to Adelaide. To facilitate the work-,
ing of this lode, Mr Trewartha recommends that it
should be annexed to Section 835.
The next place examined was. about fifteen miles
N.W. of Franklin Harbour, in hilly country ; it is a
rich pastoral country, and well watered. Ten sec
tions have here been surveyed ; and on those num
bered 850 and 842, copper was found, notwithstand
ing the tricks resorted to by some designing persons '
to prevent its discovery. On section 842 a burge pit
had been dug, at the bottom of which, all the copper
which had appeared on the surface had been care
fully deposited, and covered over with earth and
brushwood.
Mr Trewartha having opened ont the pit, found in
it from four to five hundred weight of blue and
green carbonate of copper, in large and small pieces
in the carbonate of lime.
This copper is principally seen in detatched pieces,
spread over the surface and through the lime, and
not in a regular lode. The copper, in Section 840,
is found in mica slate, more m stains through the
rock than in any defined body. From the appear
ance of the surface, and the nature of the strata,
which there undergo a change, Mr Trewartha is led
to believe that copper might be found in abundan
dance in this place if the ground were tried to any
depth. Specimens from the different Sections aro
now in the Land Office.
The next spot visited by the Mining Surveyor
was Pattola, about fifteen miles from Port Lincoln,
where three Sections have been surveyed. On Sec
tion 338, is a large body of iron, containing small
particles of malle i ble copper ; and on Section 839,
a large lode of quartz, running north and south,
and strongly stained with copper. Specimens are
deposited in the Land Office.
The last place to which Mr Trewartha's attention
was directed, was North Side Hill, near Port Lin
coln, on which several pieces of yellow sulphuret ol
copper ore were found, bat not, in his opinion origi
nally belonging to that locality, but placed there
for some purpose by some one wno has carried then
over from this side of the Gulf.-I have the honouj
to be, Sir, your obedient servant, S, W. MACDONALD
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary.
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