CABLE NEWS.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Per Press Association.) MELBOURNE, August 22. Sir John Forrest, Federal Treasurer, delivered his Budget this afternoon. The revenue is £11,460,000. The Customs and Excise yielded £180,000 above the estimate, and the Post Office £70,000 more. The total revenue exceeded the estimate by £72,000. Stimulants and narcotics yielded £4.281,000. The actual expenditure amounted to £4,318,000, being .6114,000 below the estimate. The estimated revenue for thecurrent year is £11,387,000 and the expenditure £4,606----000. The cost of the federation last year was Is 6£d per head, and the estimate for next year is Is s£d. The revenue returned to the States amounted to £7,141,000, and the estimated return for next year is £6,783,000.
SYDNEY, August 22. In connection with the extradition proceedings, another charge of false pretences is preferred against Willis. It is alleged that by means of a paper purporting to bo a' genuine transfer of an improvement lease, he obtained £1677 from Mr Hill, a Legislative Councillor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8071, 23 August 1905, Page 2
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161CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8071, 23 August 1905, Page 2
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