AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2268, 9 July 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Tbleqeaph.] [Per s.s. Wakatipu at Wellington.] MELBOURNE, June 30. There have been shipped on board the Protos 4085 carcases of sheep, and 92 loins, 92 forequarters, 8 sides and 156 hindquarters beef. The sheep are considered exceptionally prime, being of the best quality that could be procured. The beef has been carefully selected, and the meat is well frozen and carefully wrapped in calico wrappers, which adds much to the appearance of the meat. The list of candidates for matriculation was posted to-day. Of three who passed with credit two are girls. SYDNEY, June 30. The case against John Cocks, for causing the death of Peter Buckley by supplying him with liquor, was concluded yesterday at the Water Police Court. Messrs MoLean and Penfold were on the Bench, and differed in their conclusion- the former believing that no case had been made out. Mr Penfold, however, thought that there was a prima facie case against the defendant, and said be would take the responsibility of committing him for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Some discussion took place at the Synod committee yesterday in reference to the use of the revised edition of the New Testament. The Rev. Dr. Barry said that if the Synod or some authority did not make the recommendation to the Church of England he would use his own judgment in the matter, and use whatever edition he thought best. The President expressed an opinion that it would be most unwise to use the revised version until there was some definite Church authority for adopting that version. A man tamed Allen, apprehended in Hyde Park on a charge of mendicancy, was searched at the watch house, and money and securities for money to the amount of nearly £I2OO found on him. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for fourteen days. It is stated that the P. and O. Company are making arrangements for competing more extensively for the passenger and carrying trade between England and Australia. The time of steaming will be reduced, by a lino of vessels guaranteed to average fifteen knots an hour.

The revenue and expenditure for the quarter ending 30th June disclose* an increase without precedent in the colonies. Compared with June quarter last year the increase is £514,384 2s lid, and adding thereto the March quarter increase, £464,765 3s 83, the increase for the half-year ending June 30&h amounts, as compared with the first six months of 1880, to £979,149 6s 7d. The leading items of increase are Customs, £81,323; railways, £152,695; Post Office, £25,048; land sales, £563,776; interest on land conditionally purchased, £48,822; duty on refined sugar and molasses, £19,290 ; pastoral occupation, £18,221; rents, exclusive of land, £14,746 ; miscellaneous land receipts, £5742 ; licenses, £6884. PERTH, June 30. In consequence of the outbreak of smallpox at Sydney the Government have notified that all vessels arriving from that port, or having touched there, will be quarantined. BRISBANE, June 30. The census returns were issued yesterday. The delay has been caused by floods in tne North Palmer, which is not yet returned. The total, with allowance for the missing subdistricts is 218,159. Males exceed females by 37,000. ADELAIDE, June 30. The railway to Beltana the end of the first section of the Great Northern Railway, which is to bo opened on Monday, is 144 miles from Port Augusta. Trains will run each way three days a week. The revenue of the colony for the quarter ended Juno 30th amounts to £499,875, being a decrease on the corresponding quarter of last year of £52,038 ; and the receipts for the year are £2,010,654, being an increase of £179,490 on the revenue of last year, and a decrease on the estimate of £26,065. The Customs revenue for the year is £515,680, or an increase of £4834. Railways yielded £436,940, or an increase of £72,03; and the land sales £553,283, an increase of £21,673.