LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1272, 20 July 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(per reutkr'ragknoy.) (Received July 19, 1-25 a.m.) Melbourne, 18. Sailed this morning — Union Steamship Wairarapa, for Bluff. The Colonial Treasurer delivered the Financial Statement in the Legislative Assembly to-night. He estimates the revenue for the present year at £6,100,000, and the expenditure at £6,000,000, leaving a surplus of £40, 000. The revenue for the past financial year amounted to £5,770,000, and the expenditure to £5,690,000. London, 18. The ship Collinglooe (?) Collingwood outward bound for Adelaide, was found to be on fire while in ihe Thames and has been compelled to return to the docks. Q. F. N. B. Ainsley British Consul at Paramaribo, Dutch Guinea, has been appointed Consul-General of Madagascar. The election of a member for Wex- ' ford took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of Mr Redmond, by a large majority over O'Connor Don. The election was keenly contested. (Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter's Association.) Arrived — Ships Johann Adolph,

from Napier, April 7 ; British Queen, from Lyttelton, May 31. Paris, 17. It .is announced that Waddington has been appointed; to succeed Tissot, as French, Minister to the; English Co&sfci4^ ; .. TS/^-, *'£Wv • Received July l^i I^2o p.m. Sydney, 19. At a banquet given to the' Ministry last night a*t Woollongong, Stuart, Premier, in the course of a speech replying to the toast of the evening, promised to introduce a Land Act amendment bill early next session, and he stated that the Ministry would stand or fall by the measure. The Premier further announced that the Government would submit anextensive railway policy of a more oompre hensive character than any yet placed before Parliament Melbourne, 19. The Colonial Treasurer announced in his Statement last night a loan of one million for the construction, of new lines of rallway^^btt'''m • order to^ utilise rolling stock and rails now on hand. It is .further, intended to issue anew loan or three millions, to meet old loans falling due. The public debt of the Colony is now twentysix millions. The Treasurer stated that the revenue from railways and water-works, after paying all expenses, was sufficient to pay 4 per cent on the capital invested. Alexandria 18. Cholera continues to spread in Cairo, and sixty-one persons are now suffering from the'pliigue.