AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 88, 5 January 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ CBKUTKB . TELKGBAMB.) M-J.BOVBHB, January 4. Arrived, ye«terday evening — Valetta, with the London mails to November 27th. Adelaide, December 1. The South Australia revenue return* give the year's revenue as £1.130,000 being £180,000 below the proceeding twelve months, and considerably below the amount estimated by the Treasurer ■ix months ago. Hobabt, December 1. The Tasmanian yearly revenue returns areof a very favourable character, the revenue having been well sustained. Received January o, 0.45 a.m Sydney, Januaty 4. Arrived, this morning, Te Anau from New Zealand. Captain Strachan leader of the Age New Guinea Expedition who left Sydney in August last on a commercial expe<* dition te the Myacussa River District in New Guinea, reports that j the expedition proved a complet - success, and he has been able to establish friendly relations with no less than fourteen native tribes. Melboubne, January 4. The cricket match continued to-day, when the Victorian team went in for their second innings and succeeded in scoring 260 runs. McShane playing a fine innings for 80. The Australian team then went to tho wickets, requiring 21 to win. which number they obtained withont tbe loss of a wicket, thus winning the game with 10 wickets to spire. In consequence of the wharf laborers strike the steamers Keamais (?) and i Taramang hare been laid up for the present. Shipowners have resolved to , notify to shippers that cargo must be delivered in tbe ship's slings. It is intended to introduce laborer-- from New Zealand and South Australia offering them lengthened contracts, and paying their passages to Victoria. _______ i ■_»_____ *