AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 150, 19 July 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. j PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. I Mslbottbke, July 18. There is a great rush for licketi for the opening ceremony of tbe Melbourne Exhibition, which are being sold a guinea each* Twelve hundred were disposed ot in two hours. Sydney, July 18. i In the House to-night, Mr Burns, Colonial Treasurer, made a Supplement ! tary Financial Statement. He estimated an increase ia revenue, notwithstanding & deficit in the estimated railway rerenue of £'50,000. The surplus will be. reduced howeyer, by a refund to squatters of £160,000 for rents paid in advance. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the aboriginals charged with killing another black during an inter-tribal fi,'ht in the Bellinger district. It is believed that the extensive frauds discovered in the Government Tramway Service have been committed during the past eight months. Adelaide, July 18. A lengthy debate took place in the House of Assembly last night on the alleged negligence of the Government in delaying the despatch of life- saving appliances to the scene of the wreck of the ship Star of Greece. The Government were exonerated from any blame, but a Select Committee was appointed to in* vestifc&te the action of the Marine Board in the matter. It addition to those previously men* tioned as being drowned in the Star of Greece disaster, it is known that three others have perished, and the police believe they include two persons wanted on a charge of burlgary committed at Port Adelaide. The Legislative Council have rejected the Payment of Members Bill. The railway returns show that the average return upon oaptital for tbe past , 10 years has been 4.13 per cent.