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Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 244, 6 April 1883, Page 2

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Ebuter's Telegrams— Copyright. (Received April 6, 2.30 p.m.) ( | Melbourne, April's. An interim finance account'has been issued by Mr Service, as Colonial Treasurer. He estimates the revenue for the current year at £5,700,000, and the expenditure by voted' at £3,900,000, exclusive of additional estis matea to the amount of £434,000. The re* suit will reduce Sir Bryan O'Loghlen's estimated balance to #37,000. This account shows that £2,000,000 will be required to meet deficiency for railway expenditure in excess of the estimate, Mr Service, in pre* sen ting this account to the Assembly last night, stated that the revenue is coming in satisfactorily. The last loan will realise fiS.OOO.OOO, 1 whereof £1,900.000 will, be. required for the redemption of. other loans, . buc only £995,000 will be available for services this year* Nevertheless, oßliga 1^ tions amounted to £1,550,000, of which amount one million was required for rail* ways. Mr Service declared that the Treasury accounts were in a', singular. r state of oonfuaion ; that the colony would experience the greateut difficulty in paying, its way, and that he is at his wits' end to meet the enn gagements of the Treasury. , , (Received April 5, at 3 p.m.) London,. April 2. Cons ols remain at 102 and three eighths. The market for Australian breadstuff's is dull. Adelaide wheat ex warehouse is quo» ted at 50s ; New Zealand ditto at 4sa to 49a, according to quality. Adelaide flour ex warehouse, 34*. . Australian tallow is firm at last quotations, viz., best beef, 425, best mutton, 41s 6d. The total etook of tallow in London / to-day is 8,100 casks. (Received April 5, at 2 p*m.) ( LoM)on, Aprils. Intelligence is to hand that 26 persons have been killed and 39 injured by a boiler explosion at iron works Staizet (sic), April 4. In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone assenting, a motion . was adopted setting forth that no treaty should be con eluded wi h Portugal unless the same guar* anteed that England ehould have commercial freedom in Congo, and perfect freedom in her action towards civilizing Central African tribes. > Tae men recently arrested at Liverpool in connection with the landing of explosives have been examined privately. It is believed tney are implicated in receut explosions in London. News is 1 1 hand from Ashantee that the Kiag has ab Heated and that the country is now in a state of great confusion. Washington, April 3. A company of troop 3, dispatched against tbe Apache Indians in New Mexico and Ariz <na, has fallen into ambush and been totally annihilated.