AUSTRALIAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

In hi mi's m.w.iiws.] S\d\kv, August 18. TiiK steamers M.issalia and Lusitap.ia, which lia\ c been doing duty for some time as armed cruisers, lr*ft yesterday for England in accordance with Admiral Tryon's instructions, to icport themselves to the Admiralty. Majoi-tieneial Sir Peter Scratchley, the High Commissioner for New Guinea, left Sidney yesterday for th.it territory, in order to assume Ins duties.

Adklvidi;, August 17. The Colonial Tip.i-.nrer,' Mr Newland, bi ought down his Financial Statement to night. He proposes to increase the duties on ale and l»iior by threepence per gallon, and on spirits by eight shillings per gallon, while the duties on tobacco and cigars w ill be raised to sixpence and a shilling respectively. It is propo-el to lc\y an import duty of ii\e shilling-, on horses, two shillings and sixpence on cattle, threepence on .sheep, and two shillings on pigs. All the piescnt live per cent, ad valorem duties are to be abolished.

IKcccncd AiiKust 'Itli, 12 30 p.m ] Mklboukm:, August 19. Tlio remainder of the lnsubordinato members of the Permanent Artillery were sentenced to four months imprisonment by court niruti.il, but the prisoners having been recommended mercy, the Government reduced the sentence to three months.

[Reniieil August l!)th, 3 p m.] Mklbouknk, August 19. j\[r J. U. Uobertson's horse Precious Stone, is scratched for the Melbourne? Cup. Adki.aidi:, August 19. The Colonial Treasurer estimates tlio re\onue for the coining year nt £-2,310,000, while thu expenditure for the same period is estimated at £2, -410,000. It is anticipated that new tf \ation to the extent of £200.000 will be required to meet the deficiency at the end of the coining financial year. Svdnky, August Jfl. The police have arrested two men on suspicion of being concerned in the minder of a policeman at Canterbury, N.S.AV., on the 13th iiist.