AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3753, 7 January 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melboubne, This day. The revenue of Victoria for the last quarter amounted to £1,252,000, being an increase of £193,000 compared with the corresponding quarter, of 1879. The chief increase is from Customs £59,000, Excise £63,000, Public Works £67,000. The territorial revenue shows a decrease of £15,000. The revenue for the year 1880 amounted to £4,706,000, being an increase of £292,900 on 1879. . Melbotxbne, Thursday. Arrived: The tJnion Company's steamer Eingarooma, from the Bluff. Sugar is in good demand. It has been definitely decided that the team of footballers will proceed to England in May next. „ ■ s Adelaide, This day. The South Australian Parliament has been prorogued., The eipqrts of the colony for the past year shows ah increase "ofi|,obQ,6oo. . ';•*'■%<;, ;•:■ Stdnesv Thursday. >v~' The revenue for the quarter amounts tepj £1,583,000, being an increase of £33,300 compared with last year. There*- were large increases in the land sale revenue for the year, showing " atv -increase of £43,000. ' \ Sailed : The TJnion Company's steamer Eotomahana, for Auckland. ;; . Brisbane, Thursday. The revenue for the half, year amounts to £803,000, being an increase,of £90,000 ; compared with the last year.

Albany, Thursday. The P. and O. Company's steamship Hydaspes from ' Galle, with the inward Suez mail, dated London 3rd December, arrived at King George's Sound to-day.