The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-25
COLONIAL NEWS.
PER CITY OF SYDNEY, Nov. 20, 1882.

The Victorian revenue for the quarter ended
September 80 amounted to e1, 800, 600, being an
increase of e33, 600 as compared with the COR
responding quarter of last year. The total
revenue for the year ended September 80
amounted to Go, 500, 900, being an increase of
e317, 900 as compared with the previous year.
The New South Wales revenue for last quarter
amounted to 81, $50, 900, an increase of e4l 800
as compared with the September quarter of 1881.
The principal increases are in customs and rail-
ways. The revenue for the year ended September
30 was 81, 250, 900, an increase of GS7S, 900 as
compared with the corresponding period of
1S80-Sl.
The enquiry into the cause of the fire by
which the Garden Palace was destroyed was con-
cluded on October 6. The verdict of the jury
was to the effect that there was no evidence to
show how the fire originated. A rider was added
censuring the Government for the want OF care
exhibited by the manner in which valuable pro-
perty, documents, etc, destroyed by fire, were
stored in the buildings
Taking the preliminary musters for the shear
ing season as an indication, it is estimated that
the wool clip of New South Wales this season
will not exceed a total of %, 000, 600 sheep. In
1880 there was a total of 80, 000, 900 shorn, and
the reduced number this year Is the result OF the
past two seasons droughts. But for the drought
a total of 40, 600, 900 sheep should have been
ready for the shearers this year.
The Dubbo correspondent of a Sydney paper,
writing of the ravages OF the drought of last au-
tumn, says Gone paddock, in which $4,000
sheep were placed after last ShearlnB, produces
now only 1000 sheep, and the remainder must be
looked for in the heaps of bleached bones scat
tered around, and the skeletons to be observed
at every step. Another station, which had In
September, 1881, 90, 900 sheep, now can only
muster 5000; and these two instances, which are
given by way of example, are only illustrative Of
the losses on nearly every station within lOO
miles of Dubbo.''
The Sydney Evening .NeWs of October Sd pub
fishes an ~illiterate letter from q man who de-
clares that the Garden. Palace was burned by
Fenians with an internal machine made in
America. He asks for G20,0 600 and a free par
don to reveal all. He states there were twelve
persons concerned in the plot and he was to get
clio, 600 for his share. The letter is signed
Patrick O'Connor. The conductors of the .feUs
express a belief that the letter is only a hoax,
and say that they publish it merely to cause the
discovery and punishment of the scoundrel who
wrote it.
The most extensive land sale ever made In
Queensland in one lot was made recently,
when the whole of Canning Downs estate,
about Is. 900 acres of magnificent land, was sold,
the purchase money being GOO, 600. 1t Is in
tended to cut the property up into small farms.
The Queensland sugar harvest Is not turning
| ont at all so well as earlier ant;cipations prom
! ised. Heavy frosts have seriously affected both
yield and quality.
The Chinese have started and are successfully
working a sugar-growing company at Cairns, IN
Queensland.