AUSTRALIAN.
[Beoteu's Speoial.l SYDNEY. Aligllst 11. - The Hon Saul Samuel, PostmaaterGeneral; baa been appointed Agent" General for New Soutli Wales in London ; the Hon Francis Sntton has been appointed Postmaster. General ; and Sir George Innea, Miuister of Justice and Public Instruction. August 13. News comes to hand, via Noumea, that the King of Tahiti lias abdicated, and Tahiti been proclaimed a French colony. BEISBANE. August 13. The Treasurer introduced his Financial Statement in the Legislative Assembly last night. He estimated the revonue for the present year at £1,(533,500, and expenditure £1,690,000. in order to cover the deficiency he proposes to increase the quantity of land to be sold, and increase the duties on cedar, tallow, and ateariue, and the excise duty on rum to 103. Various articles in the tariff will, moreover, be altered from fixed to ad valorem duties. He anticipates a surplus of £335,000. The sum of £317,000 will be transferred from loan account to consolidated revenue, leaving the latter in credit. The Treasurer's proposals are generally approved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 9190, 14 August 1880, Page 2
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