The South Australian Colonists are on the point of departure
from England, and have published the first number of their newspaper—a hand- some-looking sheet of eight pages, called the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register—with the intention, as the leading article states, of publishing the second number " in a city of the wilderness, of which the site is yet unknown." What may be called the official part of the paper contains advertisements for contracts to supply provisions, no- tices to emigrants, advertisements of colonial books and of subscriptions for a church to he erected in the colony. The body of the paper is de- voted to such matters as a statement of the principles on which the colony is forin.led, its mode of government, agricultural and other pro- ducts, commercial prospects, &c.
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