NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Issue 1155, 27 October 1869, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, October 13. Bills have been introduced into Parliament to reduce the salary of future governors, and the salaries of the principal officials in the Civil Service. Also an Amended Customs Act, and a bill to establish a navigation board. The sale of sugar ex Metaris, to-day, showed a decline of about £2 on the finer sorts. The Sugar Company have reduced their quotations £1 to £3 10a on first quality. The leasing Bystem is becoming general on the new diggings. Several new gold companies are projected. The new wool is coming in very slowly. Freight is f d to £d. Probate of the late Doctor Mitchell's will has leen granted to the widow, Dr Wolfskelil's appeal to the Privy Council having been abandoned. A picnic has been arranged to be given to the released Fenians on Wednesday next. October 14. The Treasurer made his financial statement to-<3ay. He estimates the deficit at the end of the year will be £100,030, but anticipates there will be a surplus of £8,500 next year. He proposes to abolish the newspaper postage on the Ist of January, and to repeal half the ad valorem duties at the end of June next, and that the residue should finally cease at the end of 1870. He estimates next year's revenue at £2,269,746. The current year's revenue exceeds the Estimates" by £8,300. No new taxes are proposed, but if any should be required he will introduce a property-tax. Fleming, the painter, shot himself, in Sussex-street, to-day. Wool sales brisk. The Orangemen intend to hold a pic-nic at Clontarf at the same time as the Fenian demonstration takes place, and a party collision is feared. The Assembly has initiated a debate on triennial Parliaments, and the discussion on the bill has been adjourned for a week. Vivien, a squatter, has been sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment for cattle-stealing. The schooner Tim Whiffler capsized in Broken Bay ; one passenger was drowned. Oct. 17th. The proposed pic-nic to Kenealy and his fellow passengers, and the counter demonstration of the Orangemen, are creating a good deal of anxiety ; and it is reported that the Government has taken steps to prevent both, The Faraway, from San Francisco, brings 18,000 quarter-sacks of flour, and a large shipment of salmon, for Melbourne. She left on August 11 ; there was nothing then loading for Australia. The markets were very firm ; wheat, l'sodol. to l-80dol. ; barley, 125d01. to l-40dol. ; oats, IGOdol. ; flour, 475d01. to sdol. Brown, the American champion sculler, had sailed for England to pull Kenforth. Messrs. Bowers, Brekman, and Co., in the dry good* trade, had failed with liabilities amounting to 3,000,000d01. The Cuban insurrection continues. October 18th. The Vicar-general has issued a letter denouncing the proposed Fenian pic-nic, and it was read in the Catholic churches yesterday. The committee had intended to change the scene to Athol-gardens, but the religious opposition is likely to compel its abandonment. October 19th. Californian advices state that the Sarah Maria was loading wheat for Dunedin. There was a great demand for England, and 22 vessels were loading for London and other ports. Freight had risen to £2 17s 6d.