AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3943, 18 August 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, This day

Mrs Harris, the wife of the man who died of small pox at the quarantine station on 7st instant, is now attacked with the disease and has been removed into the infected enclosure.

Adelaide, Yesterday,

The Hon L. Glyde, Colonial Treasurer, made his Financial Statement in the Legislative Assembly last night. He showed that the revenue during the last financial year amounted to £2,030,000, and the estimated revenue for the present year at £2,127,000; and expenditure £2,075,000, including £474,000 payable as interest on public dehj^ The estimates of the revenue include £550,000 from the Customs, £52,000 from land, and £445,000 from railways. The railways are yielding 3| per cent on the cost of construction.

The public debt amounted t0£11,250,000. It is proposed during the year to raise a new loan to bear interest at the rate of 3 per cen<t. „ The measure further proposes to abolish the duty on tea, cofiee, cocoa, chocokue, comsacks, and woolpacks, but on the other hand he announced the intention of the Government to impose a tax of sixpence in the pound on land and property. Mr Glyde iv concluding his speech hinted to the probability of an international exhibition being held in Adelaide in about five years time.