AUSTRALIAN.
[redtbb's tkleqrams.l Mkluoubnb, July 20. Tub Colonial Treasurer (Mr Gillies) introduced the Financial Statement in the Legislative Assembly this evening. He estimates the revenue at £6,970,000, and the expenditure at £6,919,000. The revenue for the past financial year waft £6,420,000, and the expenditure £6,620j000, the actual surplus at the commencement of the current financial year being £330,000. Mr Gillies proposes to increase ad valorem duties upon woollen goods and piece woollens to 20 per cent., *and on made-up woollens to 30 per cent. ' Sydney, July 20. Splendid rains have fallen over all parts of this colony. Adelaide, July 20. Arrived, this morning : The Orient steamship Austral, from London. Melbourne, July 20. Sailed this afternoon : The Te Anau, for the Bluff. Sydney, July 20. Arrived, yesterday afternoon : The s.s. Wairarapa, from Auckland. Sailed, on Saturday evening: Thes.B. Hauroto, for Wellington.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2190, 22 July 1886, Page 2
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140AUSTRALIAN. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2190, 22 July 1886, Page 2
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