AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 230, 25 September 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

COMMONWEALTH RITLE MATCH. i (Received 10.40 ___..) ADELAIDE, this day. The Commonweilih rifle match resulted: —Victoria, 1075; South Australia. 1660; Queensland, i 012; Westraiia, 1610; New South Wales, 1570: and Tasmania. 1508. The weather was unfavourable.

| DARLING'S KCSTIKEJMENT.

i Received 10.40 ajn.) ADELAIDE, this day. J. Darling, ex-captain of the Australian Eleven, announces that he has definitely retired from first-class cricket.

I COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES. I

i Received I'V4O a.m.i MELBOURNE, this day. j In the action, Fear versus the Union Company, claiming £500 damages for injuries caused by falling down the bold of the Maheno. a verdict for plaintiff for £250 was returned.

NEW SOUTH WALES SURPLUS.

I , SYDNEY, September 24. i Tiie Treasurer's Budget speech, delivered to-night, showed that the revenue ] for the past year had been £15,467,000. and the expenditure £13.790,000. The estimated revenue for the coming year was £14,7.-3.000. and the expenditure £14.442.000. It was expected that the State would receive £600,000 less from tbe Commonwealth this year than last year, when a stun of £3,000,000 was received. The railways last year had returned interest at 'he rate of £4 10/10, yielding a surplus of £671,000. A STAGE-MANAGED SURPLUS. RAILWAY SYSTEM STARVED, j i Received S 20 a.m.) I LONDON, September 24. The Sydney correspondent of "The Times" cables chat the New South Wales actual surplus for the year is about £665,000. He says that the State's swollen surpluses, stage-managed for show purposes, make the State ridiculous. The surplus of the previous year was partly ■- obtained by starving the railways.

j A-rSTRAXIAN PREFERENCE.

i | MELBOURNE, September 24. \ ' The Government representative in the 1 Senate stated, in reply to a question today th_t the Government had not aban- ! : doned its intention of inijcwlueing measures to secure prefereatiai trade with i New Zealand and Canada.. Negotiations | Tvith both countries would be resumed' i when the w_-g*st---r of public h__rnng_ j 4)__& b-** wfcv-4. i