CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3620, 3 August 1880, Page 2

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Capetown," June 23.

The, Budget speech was made on the 2th of June. The revenue is expected .to reach two>ud a half millions, an increase of £2C0,000 in excess of the original estimate. The expenditure for the closing year, estimated at £2,355,000, will be £2,494,000, an increase of £139,509.

Owing to the Morosi rebellion, the total war expenses from|;i677 to date were £1,181,275.

Julyl. The proposal for a conference of {South African Colonies and States to consider the question of confederation has fallen through, and apparently confederation is as distant as erer.

A Government Railway Bill has been introduced. It is comprehensive, and entails ao expenditure of upwards of £7,000,000 in railway construction. A vote of confidence in the Gorernnient was carried on the 29th of June by 36 to

2. The Opposition members absented themselves in a body, the two noes being really for the Government, and only voting in opposition to bring the question to a division.

The Empress Eugenic is now at Port Elizabeth, remaining on board the mail steamer Trojan in the strictest seclusion. She is expected to arrive at Cape Town on the 4th of August, and n ill sail for England on the 6th of that month.

Stocks of wool at Port Elizabeth are unusually large, amounting to 30,000 bales.