AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(by electric telegraph.— copyright.) (reuter's telegrams.) Sydney, Feb. 8. In the Legislative Assembly tonight, the Colonial Treasurer delivered his budget statement. He estimates the revenue for the year at £6,819,200, and the expenditure at £6.482,565, leaving a surplus of £336,635. This added to the surplus remaining at the clo3e of the last financial year gives the total estimated surplus for the year ending December 31st next of £1,135,574. No alterations are proposed m the Customs tariff, but it is announced that the loan will shortly be raised to recoup with the Consolidated Loan Fund, m which deficiencies have occurred owing to stoppage of land sales.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 65, 9 February 1883, Page 2
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