NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Sydney, July 17. . In the Houso to-night, Mr Burns, tho Colonial Tnasurcr, made a Supplementary Financial Statement. He estimated an increase in the revenue, notwithstanding a deficit in the estimated railway receipts of .£59,000, consequent on the defeat of the Land Bill. The estimated revenue is set down at £9,158,000, and the proposed expenditure, inclusive of £150,000 for the State House and a small deficit from the year 1887, is estimated at £8,588,000, leaving a surplus for the financial year of £570,000. The expenditure includes £OI,OOO interest payable on the new loan, The surplus will be reduced, however, by a refund to the squatters of £IOO,OOO for rents paid in excess..

Puiffll, July 17.

An appeal case, Avery versus the South British Insuranco Company, being a claim on two policies effected on the ship Janet recently wrecked, was concluded to-day. The amount of the policies is £ISOO and £BOO each. The verdict of tbe Court was for the company-iu the case involving £ISOO, and for Avery in the case involving £BOO, the company to pay costs of the first trial, and both sides to pay their own costs of appeal. Svdney, July 17. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against two aboriginals charged with killing another black during an intertribal fight, in the Bellinger district. '•','• It is believed that the extensive frauds discovered in the Government tramway service have been committed during the past eight months.

The intercolonial conference of delegates from various Seamon's Unions lias commenced its sitting, but tbo proceedings avenot open to the press.' The Chinese question and the seamen's difficulty in New Zealand are being discussed.■

The Legislative Council have rejected the Payment of Members Bill. The railway returns show that the avorago return upon capital iortlie past ten years has beeu 4.18 per cout. Adelmdk, 18th July, A.lengthy dobate took place in the House of Assembly last night, on the alleged negligence of the Government in delaying tho despatch of life-saving appliances to tho scono of the wreck of the ship Star of Greece. The Government were exonerated from any blame, but a solcot committco was appointed to investigate the action of the Marino Hoard in the matter. In addition to those previously mentioned it is known that three others wero drowned, and the police believe they include two persons wanted on a charge of burglary, committed at Port Adelaide. Mklbouiinb, 18 July. There is a great rush for tickets for the opening ceremony of the Melbourne Exhibition, which are being sold at a guinea oaoli. Twelvo hundred were dispose! of in two hours,