CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[by electric telegraph—copyright,]

Reuter's Telegrams,

Melbourne, Thursday. Received July 17th, 11.30 a.m.— The manager of the National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand reports of the local grain market as follows: Shipping wheat dull, drooping at 3s lOd to 2s lid. Malting barley depressed, with rather more enquiry, quotations 4s to 4s 6d, viz,, oats, feeding, in favor of buyers, 2s lOd to 3s Id; milling, in fair demand at 3s Id to 3s 2d. New Zealand oats, under bond, weaker a t 2s 2d to 2s 7d.

Melbourne, Thursday. Keceived July 17th, 11,30 a.m.—The Colonial Treasurer made a financial statement in the Legislative Assembly last evening, which showed that the revenue during the past financial year amounted to £5,900,000, and the expenditure to £6,800,000, the former amount being £150,000 above the estimate. Tho total revonue from the railway amounted to £2,080,000, and the income from this source together with that irom the supply of water, was equal to 4 per cent on the total indebtedness of the colony. The Treasurer estimates the revenue for the current financial year at £6,490,000, and the expenditure at £6,400,000, He proposes to inoreasc the excise duty on spirits by two shillings per gallon,