REVENUE RETURNS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1968, 2 January 1907, Page 2

REVENUE RETURNS.

FLOURISHING PROSPECTS. Received 9.57 p.in., Jan. 1. SYDNEY,JaiI. 1. ■» The revenue of the lor the half-year is £6,664,000,'an increase of £840,395 on the corresponding 'half of last year. The value of mineral production in 1905 was £7,080,000. It is expeted that the year just closed will show a large increase. The finance of the City Council for the year discloses a surplus of ovo £32,428. : In the petitions in bankruptcy -v, New South Wales last year, the liabilities totalled £179,000, and tlio assets £93,200. The Daily Telegraph’s review of trade says that it has been one of a succession of years of materially increasing prosperity and -dr improvement upon improvement, while ths outlook for the now year is for greater expansion. Taken collectively, the advance in production and prosperity has been most striking.

ADELAIDE, Jan. 1. The revenue for the half-year show an increase of £32,000

THE HONORS OF WAR. Received 11.50 p.m., Doc. 31. TOKIO, Dec, 31. The Mikado has decorated the chief military and naval commanders who took imrt i n the war. JAPANESE AND AMERICA. REBELLION THEATENED IF JAPANESE UPHELD. Received Jan. 1, 10.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Some Californian newspapers threaten rebellion if tlie National Government endorses President Roosevelt’s attitude in regard to the Japanese. MISCELLANEOUS. • BRISBANE, Dec. 31. ~

A Chinaman named Look How was executed for the murder of a countryman in Townsville in August last. Death was instantaneous. MELBOURNE, Dec. 31. Tucker, whose death was cabled,yesterday night, was a teacher of painting in Melbourne many years ago. He had been residing in England for some time. Received Jan. 1, 9.10 a.m. BERLIN, Dec. 31. Officers in the employment *of the Hamburg Shipowners’ Association have been requested to withdraw from the Captains’ arid Officers Association. Seventy have been dismissed for refusing to comply. LONDON, Dec. 81. The Amalgamated Society-of Ilailwaymen -propose a general demand for eight hours in connection with moving traffic, and ah increase of wages. CAPETOWN, Dec. 31. It is reported at Capetown, from the German border, that peace has been signed at Damaraland.

PARIS, Dec. 31. The French Senate, by SO to 20. v< ted M. Briand’s Supplementary Separation Bill. There have been several isolated cases of the clergy technically assaulting the police in connection with the seizure of church properties, but no serious resistance on the part of the laity. LONDON, Dec. 31. British bequests to charities in 1906 totalled six millions pounds. Tlie Treasury has announced that it is unable to entertain fundamental alterations in the income tax to meet the wishes of the Capo Assembly and Legislative Council of Pretoria respecting the taxing of profits of the South African companies.

Received Jan. I, 10.37 p.m. Driver Gourlay was arrested on a charge of reckless driving. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts was buried in Westminster Abbey on Saturday. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. John Roekfellor, in an interview, stated that owing to attacks on corporate interests, many business men had lost millions of dollars through shrinkage, though the year was one of the greatest of prosperity. Tlie working classes would be the next sufferers. BERLIN, Jan. 1. Tlie wrecking of the postal van in the Otterberg railway accident, caused the destruction of a large pares, of bonds proceeding to Pai is, London, Brussels, and Antwerp for settling day. The Bourse estimate of the losses is fifteen to twenty million marks.

Received Jan. 1, 10.58 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 1. General Booth opens an anti-suicide bureau. He has appointed officers to give sympathetic and sensible advice to despairing persons, thereby hoping to stop the rapidly increasing number of suicides. Lord Hugh Cecil asserts that many Liberals and Conservatives have much in common with the appeals to Lord Rosebery to lead the Central-minded party, which finds its views at present ill-expressed on either side of Parliament. Many birds forwarded by the New Zealand Government by the Tongariro for Mlie Emperor o"f Austria died on the voyage. The Archbishop of Canterbury in a New Year message to the clergy and laity, declares that the Church’s claim for elementary Christian teach ing in schools is not in the least incompatible ' with the amplest popular control.

SYDNEY, Jan. 1. The weather until night was fine for the holidays. lattorsall’s Cup resulted : Rosemead 1 Deuteoher 3, Ossian 3. There were nine starters'. The betting was: 4 to 1 against Rosemead, 6 to 1 Deutscher. Won by two lengths. Time, 3min. 301 sec. PERTH, Jan. 1. Details of the crime show that Niscovitah persistently forced his attention upon Miss Camphel, who >v;s in his employ, and repeatedly threatened to take the lives of herself and other members of the family. A la 11 of earth at the Ivanhoe mine killed two men named Williams and Olsen.

Received Jan. 1. 10.23 a.m. NEWCASTLE, Jan. 1. Sailed, Bramley for Dunedin. Received Jan. 1, 11 p.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. I. Tlie Standisli Handicap resulted: Miss Bobby 1, Amazon 2, True Scot 3. There were seventeen starters. The betting was: 4 to 1 True Scot, 8 to I Miss Bobby. Won by a lengtli. Time, Tniin. Kiser. The Bagot Haiidi" cap: Red Streak 1. Delaware 2, Charmant 3. There were eleven starters. Betting: two to 1 Tulkeroo, 5 to 2 Red Streak. It was a great race from the half distance. Won by a neck. Time, 2inin. 38see. Arrived, Star of Australia, from London; Olivia, from Kaiparai