AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (reutkr's telegrams. ) Melbourne, Dec. 30. The Victorian revenue returns for last quarter show an increase of £76,250 compared with the corresponding quarter last year. The revenue for the year showed an increase of £269,000. Adelaide, January 1. The South Australian revenue returns show a decrease of £70,000 as compared with the correspoading quarter of last year. The Customs revenue during the same period has increased by £18,000. The territorial receipts have decreased by £82,000. The revenue for the past half year is £96,000 below the estimate. Melbourne , Yesterday. The Government has decided to fix the minimum of the loan about to be raised m London at par, and has telegraphed to the agent-general accord* ingly. Sydney, This Day. The Treasury returns show that during the December quarter the revenue of New South Wales amounted to £2,080,000, being an increase cf £160,000 compaaed with the corresponding quarter, 1881. For the year just ended the total revenue was £7,420,000, being an increase of 704,000 on the yearvlßßl. Melbourne, This Day. Arrived — Yesterday afternoon the steamship Rotomahana from the Bluff.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 32, 3 January 1883, Page 2
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