AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1915, 14 April 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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[Par s.s. Tararna, via Bluff.j VICTORIA.

The permanent buildings of the Exhibition are now approaching completion although much is still to be dona The arrangements of the interior are fully expected to be m readiness to receive exhibits on June Ist 'the Irish Relief Fund clo-es on April 6th. The total subscriptions in Victoria amount to ■£28,000.

Although the appointment of Mr Benjamin Berry has been cancelled, it is understood that his former salary will be increased The Rev. Dr. Kosehy, of Dunedin, preaches a aeries of sermons at the Collins street Independent Church during April. It is snated that an Australian company is about to invest largely in sugar lands in Fiji. £IOO,OOO is mentioned as the capital. The Juvenile Exhibition closed on April 3rd. The total admissions were 170,000, and the receipts £SOOO. NEW SOUTH WALES. The Political Reform Union passed a resolution that no future legislation in reference to Chinese will he satisfactory which does not provide for a poll tax of £lo on every Chinese arriv ng in the colony. It is understood that the representatives of the miners desire to have the wages regulated on a sliding scale, all disputes to he settled by arbitration. It has been decided to form a co-operative society to ship froz- n meat from Twofold Bay. The exhibits in the German, Belgium, and Japanese Courts are rap’dly being removed. The Omnibus Company have withdrawn their vehicles owing to the Government tramway scheme, causing great inconvenience. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The revenue return has been published. The estimated revenue for the quarter ending March is £lB2 801, including Customs, £118,000; railway, £99 500; laud sales, £155,000. The expenditure for nine months is estimated at £2,278,5-.8, leaving £576,983 for the last quarter to make up. The amount estimated by the Treasurer as a deficit for the financial year is about £IOO,OOO. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. It is understood that the P. and O. Co.’s steamers will cease calling at Albany shortly. The agency at Albany will be abolished. [Per s.s. Rotorua, via Russell.] VICTORIA. A mooting of members of the Australian Mutual Frovident Society was strongly hostile to the Sydney proposition to abolish proxy voting. McLaren, believed to ha a well-known agitator in New Zealand and Sydney, has been sentenced to four years for housebreaking. The Associateil Banks'at a meeting resolved not to reduce the discount rate. Ihe Banks agreed to advance the Harbor Trust £50,000 to carry on the Yarra improvements. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sir H. Parkes and Mr Fawcett, ex AgentGeneral. have been nominated for the vacancy in the University Senate The former had the show of hands. A pail was demanded, and the returns to hand show that Mr Fawcett is almost certain to be elected. Mr Simpson, M .P., has presented ISO guineas, damages recovered in the recant assault case, to the Sydney Infirmary. QUEENSLAND. The revenue returns for the quarter have been published, showing a total of £359,797, being an increase on the corresponding quarter of £3O 971. ho laud revenue increased £30,000. Excise licenses, pastoral grants, railways, postage, fines, all showed an increase, the o!hers a decrois". The expenditure of the quarter was £278,901, being a decrease of £29, t 97, principally in the Ministerial departments. The balance shows a deficit at the end of March of £110.773. Simon Fraser has been elected far South Brisbane. Very rich finds are reported from the Palmer. The Government grant for the representation of the colony at the Melbourne Exhibition : a 44009