LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Sydney, November 16. The Treasurer deliveied his financial statement in the Legislative As-Sfinbly last night. He showed that the iavenue la-ft year amounted to £7.3-1:8.000 and the expenditure to .£5,158,000 Uu estimates the revenue fur the present year at £-0,3-11,000 and the expenditure at £5,961,000. No increa e of taxation or of customs duties is proposed. A revision of the system of leasing pastoral lands is to be made, with a view to ob-ain increased rent-'. The estimates of expenditure show an increase on account of education, railways and immigration. ThePaoitio Ala'l Company'ssteaiiiship Australia, arrived this morning from San Francisco, via Auckland. Tl>e Intercolonial Rifle Match to-day,
was won by the New South Wales team, with a score of 1091 points; Victoria second, 1061 ; Queensland third, 1009.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1604, 17 November 1881, Page 2
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