Letters from New York announce that Miss Shirred and Mr.
Wilson are to play at the Park Theatre for a fortnight in March ; and, after a short engagement at Philadelphia, they will most probably return to England in June.
A gentleman residing in London, who purchased 405 acres of land in South Australia, including three town acres, at 12s. per acre, (243/.0 has recently let the 402 country acres, on a lease . for fourteen years, for 200/. per annum, and one of the town acres on a lease for twenty-one years at 901. per annum. The rural land is distant about five miles front Adelaide, and the town acre is situated in Currie Street. This remarkable instance of a purchaser obtaining in less than four years a yearly rental greatly exceeding his whole purchase-money, is within our own knowledge.—Colonial Gazette.
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