AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7914, 30 September 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

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NEW SOUTH WALES BUDGET. ' SYDNEY, September 29 1The Budget was delivered to-night. The Government proposes -to find £1,315,000 for various railway works. The accumulated surplus on June 13 amounted to £637,678. Compared with the previous year, tho total -revenue decreased by £333,000. The Government redeemed loans during the year to the extent of £3,240,000. ■ That amount, if added to the amount spent on publio works, makes a grand total of £6,284,000. - - ; It is estimated that invalid pensions for the current year will be £95,000, or £20,000 m excess of last year's amount. The estimated revenue for the current year is £13,722,000, and the ■ expenditure £13,162,000. ' After making provision for the Public "Works Fund and the Closer Settlement, Fund, the estimated surplus will be £407,000. The Government requires £3^00,000 for public works during the year.

SHIPPING IN THE GALE. The steamer Waipara wax temporarily repaired at Brisbane. In coming to Sydney for repairs , she weathered the galo successfully, but was over eighty hours on the passage. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. Received September 30, ip.lo a.m.

SYDNEY, September 30. The girl Lundie . has been found guilty of the manslaughter of ' her father, with a strong recommendation to mercy. The Judge did not pass any sentence, but bound the girl over to good behaviour for three years.-

[A previous message cabled on September 7 stated that a girl named L'undie, thirteen years old, shot her father dead near Braidwoqd. The father had threatened his wife, and tho" girl secured a gun, and, raising-the sash of her father's bedroom window, sKe shot him. She has .been arrested.] A DEFENCE PROPOSAL CONDEMNED. Dealing with the proposal to reinforce the existing regiments from the members of the civilian rifle clubs, General Gordon stated that only about ten thousand , out of twenty-three thousand members of rifle clubs^, were efficient, and fully 50 per cent, 'would not be allowed to join the ranks, because the doctors would not pass them. THE ALPENA. The Alpena was. badly, strained' by the storm, and it is estimated that the repairs will cost £1000. THE DAVIS CUP. Received September 30. 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, September 30. The Lawn Tennis Association on Friday considered a cable from the American Association, suggesting that the Davis Cup match be played a week earlier than the.dates suggested by the Australasian Association. The" cable is accepted as a guarantee that the American team will visit Australia.

ACROSS AUSTRALIA ON A BICYCLE.

PERTH, September"^. Birtles, the cyclist, has started his third journey across Australia.

WEST AUSTRALIAN BUDGET.

The Treasurer's Budget' estimates a revenue for the current year of £3,426;000, and an expenditure" of £3,387,000.