AUSTRALIAN.
[beutee’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, November 16. Rise in the Price of OatsOats are to-day 3d per bushel higher, and s further rise in price is expected. SYDNEY, November 16. Financial Statement. The Treasurer delivered his financial statement in tho Legislative Assembly last night. Ho showed that the revenue last year amounted to £6,348,000, and the expenditure to £5,157,000. He estimates the revenue for the present year at £6,348,000, and the expenditure at £5,961,000. No increase of taxation or of Customs duties is proposed. A revision of the system of leasing pastoral lands is to bo made with a view to obtain increased rents. The estimates of expenditure show increases on account of education, railways and immigration.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2378, 16 November 1881, Page 3
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