AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2301, 18 August 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Teeutee’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, August 17. Sailed, this afternoon—Rotorua, for tho Bluff. The New Judge. It is announced that Mr E. D. Holroyd, barrister, has been appointed to tho Judge, ship rendered vacant by the death of Mr Justice Stoven. SYDNEY, August 17. Smallpox. Two fresh cases of smallpox have been reported to the authorities to-day. One is a sister of Mr Trevoe, commission agent, of Balmain. A man named Hutton, who has been confined to the Quarantine Station, suffering from smallpox, died there yesterday. ADELAIDE, August 17. The Financial Position. The Hon. L. Glydo, Colonial Treasurer, made his financial statement in the Legislative Assembly last night.. He showed that the revenue during tho past financial year amounted to £2,000,000. He estimated the revenue for the present year at £2,127,000, and the expenditure at £2,075,000, including £474,000 payable as interest on the public debt. The estimates of tho revenue include £550,000 from Customs, £531,000 from land, and £445,000 from railways. The railways are yielding 3J per cent, on the cost of construction. The public debt amounts to £11,250,060. It is proposed during the year to raise a new loan, to bear interest at the rate of 3 per cent. The Treasurer further proposes to abolish the the duty on tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, cornsacks, and woolpacks, but on tho other hand he announced the intention of the Government to impose a tax of 6d in the £on land and property. Mr. Glyde in concluding his speech, hinted at the probability of an International Exhibition being held in Adelaide in about five years time.