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Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 306, 28 April 1874, Page 2

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London, April 14. — Lowther, Fader-Secretary for the Colonies, said he had received no offici il information concerning Fiji. He said when the Commissioners' repoit was received, the matter would receive attention. Sir Stafford Northcote has delivered his budget speech— the revpnue for :873 vrsu seventy-seven millions three hundred. and eighty thousand, aud the expenditure twenty-two and a. half mil ions. It it proposed to take Id off the income tax, and abolish the lugnr duties, also to provide fgr the reduction of the national debt by terminable annuities to the amount of £26 1,000. There « ould also be contributed a million toward! the reduction loc al taxation. London, April 17» The proposition to abolish the duties is generally approved. , T . . April 18. * Livingstone is buried in Westminster Abbey Dean °Stanley officiated. The Queen sent wreaths for tne coffin. A right of appeal ha* been granted in the Mount Morris case. The Russian squadron it about to visit Australia. 260,000 bales of colonial wool has arrived. It is exptcted the market will show a decline. Corn market — firm ; Adelaide wheat, 67s to 69i per 4961b5. Australian securities — firm New Zetland hemp £1 lower. Australian breadstuffs unchanged and dull. Owing to a hurricane kaving destroyed sugan, Mauritius sugars hare advanced. Berlin. Archbishop PoseD ba^beendeprived of bis See.