Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2634, 18 June 1877, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

Per s.s. Hero.

(Peb Pbess Agency.)

Melbourne.

The Government will probably propose a carriage tax as a substitute for tolls. Also move for the construction of a railway towards the South Australian border..; : -

The sugar company will probably raise their prices in a day or two.

A prospecting vote and a loan will form part of. the Government policy.

- The insolvent Pyke has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for fraudulent preference. ;

Adelaide.

A steerage passenger named Barlow suicided from the steamer South Australian by jumping overboard.

New South Wales. Hodgerson, a miner, was found hanging

in his hut. It is supposed he committed suicide owing to starvation.

Mr Parkcs has given notice of a committee of t lie whole House to consider Sir W. Jervois' report, and the expediency of making naval and military preparations, for colonial defence. : /':

; The ordinary revenue is estimated at £1,557,000 ; expenditure, £85,000;. jess. A loan or a million and four hundred thousand, including £150,000 for immigration j lighthouses, £61,000; telegraph , :;tension, £75,000..

Rush and Trickett are getting rapidly ■':>to form. The backers of the former uve very confident. Rush has decided not to use a sliding seat. Brisbane. The Religious Worship Bill has passed. The Government will construct railwajs from Oxly to Beenleigh, from Ipswich to Harrisville, and Brisbane to Sandgate. '-."; : ;