AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1753, 2 October 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. SYDNEY, October 2. The Trades Union Congress meets on the 6th. SPIRITUALISTIC. The spiritualists of Sydney and Melbourne deny the truth of the allged American discovery that Slade has been proved to he a woman. SYDNEY, October 1. The quarter’s revenue is £993,000, showing a decrease on the corresponding quarter of last year of £BI,OOO. The land sales decreased by £176,000. The several heads of general revenue all increased. The Hero left with a good shipment of maize and sugars. The Australian Mutual Provident Society shows a quinquennial surplus of of £565,000. The dividend is £489;000.' [eeuter’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, October 2In the Legislative Assembly last night the Hon. Peter Lalor, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, introduced his- proposed series of additional duties. Arrived —Arawata, from Bluff. ALBANY, October 2. Arrived—P. and O. steamer Siam. Passenger for Lyttelton, G. Lloyd. [Via Auckland.] SYDNEY, September 24. Resolutions affirming the desirability of increasing the capital of lh* Commercial Bank of Sydney from £500,000 to £600,000, were carried at a meeting of shareholders in July, and unanimously confirmed at a meeting of the proprietors. A meeting of Australian geologists is called for the latter part of March next in Syd,ft*y by Professor Loveridgo as convener. A settler near Wagga was killed by a kio'k from a horse. The Tramway Steam Company is a sueoessI ful enterprise, ond pays the Government well, ■ taking twenty pounds daily.

BRISBANE, Septeraer 24. . It wan resolved by the Assembly that the time had arrived when export duties should be imposed on certain articles leaving the colony. This especially applies to cedar, of which a million feet were going South, and the scrubs being exhausted with small advantage to the colony. Difficulties were likely to arise between the Council and Assembly last week. The Council made important amendments in the Divisional Boards Bill, which the Assembly hold are not within the power of the Council to make, having the effect of shifting the Incidence of Taxation. The Council, however, for a time insisted on their amendments, and maintained they have power by a Constitution Act to amend any Money Bill. ADELAIDE, September 24. Mr Higginbotham reports that the railway system is disjointed and incomplete, but that a yearly improvement may be looked for, and ultimately a largo railway revenue. The cheapness of construction is favorable, and new and profitable extensions will be’undertaken. The railways will be self-supporting in ten years. They are undoubtedly successful as engineering works. The Government intend to submit a Bill for introducing Indian labor into the Northern territory. MELBOURNE, September 24. A conference on the 22nd resolved to form n National Agricultural Reform Association for political purposes and the general promotion of farming interests, Tattersall’s Club have introduced a system by which the betting quotations on various horses can be accurately known. The Minister for Land decided to forfeit C. B. Fisher’s run on the grounds, of dum myism. A return furnished to the City Council shows that £58,000 has already been expended on the Eastern Market, and £29,000 more will be required to complete it. The Government propose stopping relief works, as harvesting and the busy season is approaching. The North-west Canal Company ask the Government to guarantee interest for the expenditure of a million sterling for twenty-five years at 5 per cent, in order to carry out the canal scheme.