AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1926, 6 August 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, August 2. Arrived—Mauapouri. The House has rejected the motion to introduce Sculpture lesson books into State sehools. The Budget is now being debated. Sydney, August 2. The Daily Telegraph sarcastically says :—" The wire pullers have successfully worked the Government with regard to the Dunedin Exhibition. It is a mere faros on (be part of New Sous

Wales to exhibit in New Zealand. We are the latter'e best customers ; yet New Zealand?s deliberate policy is to exolude our products.; New Zealand protects ijtself against New r ;S,outh Wales ; yet. a meek Government >haß: promised to contribute to Mr Twopeoy's exbibitioni" . August 3,

Arrived—Hanroto, from. Wellington ; H.M.S. Rapid from Samoa, and e,s. Tekapp from Wellington. , H.M.B. Orlando has returned from a cruise in the■■; Pacific, She reports two cases ; of scarlet fever among,the crew, A married woman named Maria Whitham, hailing from Auckland, was found murdered jjn a,-dam at the Centennial J?#xk, It appears that she,hadibeen first stunned by a heavy blow,,and then thrown into the water.

The exploring party in the Glebe Mine have recovered the bodies of Batufield and Peate, junr, Adelaide, August-2.

The new Victorian 1 ta'rififnis viewed with extreme dissatisfaction in commercial circles.

The Licensed Victuallers Bill introduced in the Assembly contains a local option clause and restricts the sale of liquors in olubß. Brisbane, August 2.

The Colonial Treasurer's financial statement shows that the receipts during the year exceeded the expenditure by £117,000. The deficit, which at the beginning of the year was £602*000, now stands at £485,000. The value of the imports in the year just passed was £13,000 less Man in the preceding 12 months, the decrease being in grain and flour. Government have decided not to alter the tariff. The reoeirits for the current year are estimated at £3,749,000, and the expenditure, £3,620,000. A loan Bill for the purpose of carrying on .publicworks will be introduced shortly; August 3.

Information has reached here that 'a number of natives at Malatya,'one of the Solomon Islands, boarded the trading vessel Savo, and without warning shot A. Hadden, the mate, dead, and cut off the head of a man named Cooper. Keating, the owner of the vessel, Was also severely wounded and subsequently succumbed, The native crew repelled the murderers, killing twelve of their number.

W. Crawford, a prominent mining broker at Gympiej has been arrested on several charges of forgery;'involvingover £IO,OOO.