AUSTRALIAN.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 5 June 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Per Electric. Telegraph—Copyright.

United Press Association. Brisbane, June 3. It is understood that the present Governor of British North Borneo will be selected as the first Governor of New Guinea. The captain of the steamer Tsinan refused to accept 14 Chinese here as passengers for China, fearing that they would combine with those already on board in raising a mutiny. Hobart, June 3. In the Assembly last night the Treasurer delivered his Financial Statement. The financial year of the colony does not close until the end of December. The estimated revenue to the end of June will be £606,800, and the estimated deficiency to the end of December £183,000. The revenue shows a good increase, but the expenditure has also increased, The Treasurer proposes a half-penn} r tax in the £, on personal estate, the ad valorem duty is to be raised to per cent, and a million loan is to bo floated at 31 per cent. Sydney, June 4. Thomas Strickland, a well-known merchant, was drowned in the harbor near Manly Beach yesterday, through a boat upsetting. The man Parkes, the victim of the outrage, is dead. A quantity of wreckage, two casks of beef, branded E, the stern sheets of a boat made of kauri, and a distress signal was found on the beach at Lord llowo Island on the Bth May. Port Darwin, Juno 4.

A party of blacks attacked the Chinese camp on the Roper River, killing one. Melbourne, June 4.

The Budget this year will show a surplus of half-a-million, the territorial revenue account showing an increase of £IOO,OOO.