AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 3324, 14 February 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

— <♦— - — ----'•• ' (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL.WIRE.).. T' ■:.',' ZZZ-' SYDNEY, Feb. 13. In; .the Assembly Mr Watson,. Colonial Treasurer, estimated the excess of revenue .over expenditure for the present year at £126,000. -He announced his intention . to-^ submit a bUI to abolish the gold duty, and introduce a scheme of railway extension. : The Budget was- brought idown: yesterday, and estimates a surplus of £25,666 at the end of the current' 'year. There are to be no fiscal changes save the abolition of the duty on gold. The Government purposes pushing forward the. work, ;of railway extension throughout the colony. BRISBANE, FEB. 13. /'■ . . . : In consequence of virulent cases of small? . pox aboard the, steamer Somersetshire,, she is quarantined here. -a. ■..:.*. The hours of. the, civil service are. extended to in the afternoon. , ;; „,-,. '■'•'-"... , Mr Tully, Under- Secretai-y ) oi ■ Lands, ,has been appointed Surveyor •Geueral. Mr Barron, Chieff Clerk of. Police, take .the portfolio of Mines, and will, probably be succeeded by Mr Geary, whilst .Mr . Luean, ; late Minister of Mines, wiU probably, become Minister of Lands. "' T.-'TT.;. '■.;:" T '''■ MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. ; Nothing fui'ther .has- been heard of 1 the movements Of -'the Kelly gang. The verdict of the jury 'in the inquest upon the body of ;;MrS 4 'ChaiiQtte Collins blamed Dr Crooke'fof making the _^os*«i_r^_ w'examih ation. and cohsiders'his' conduct . suspicious. The depositiohs'have >beeh : s'tibmittfed to the Attorney General. - ; '-"/- : ; Dan Kelly is said to have beep, seen alone within ten inUes^fßeechwofth. 1 A 7 7 %