AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
FURTHER RETRENCHMENT. DEATH FROM SMALL-POX. [Per Press Association. | , Melboobkp, July 2. The reduction of the cable ratos to New Zealand cost the colony £2300 wl it th * revenue amounted to £2500. Although there is.apparently a surplus in reality when the working expenses are considered there is a deficiency. TbisDay. The Government has decided to make further reductions in the salaries of Ministers and. members of Parliament, ani to abolish annual increments to public officers. Prohibitive duties are to be reduced to a revenue producing point. • Sbisbams, This Day. The revenue returns for the year have been reduced to £102.000 as compared with the previous year's the deficiency for the past year amounts to jGB,OOO. Hoßtßt. This Day. The revenue for the half year has decreased £14,800. Pkrth, This Day. The first small pox patient is dead. Stdnkt, July 2 Latest news, from Japan (June 6tb) states 'the plague is still virulent, and several Europeans have succumbed. The Dntch authorities in Java have dismissed two officials connected with the seizure of the Costa Rica Packet. >.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1894, Page 2
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176AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1894, Page 2
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