NEW SOUTH WALVES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1818, 18 April 1888, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALVES.

Sydney. April 1($. The Rabbit Conference today resolved to ask Government to spt apart an island on the coast, and also a tract of country inland for the purpose of testing the efficiency of the rabbit extermination schemes of M. Pasteur and others, Sydney, April 17. A shipment of horses by the Waihora from Auckland was submitted to auction to-day. Light horses averaged and draught horses ;£i6; The market was dead, and many of the horses were passed m. One hundred and sixty miners are idle through a strike at the South Waratah coal mines, A valuable discovery of lead crystals is reported from the Mudgee district, The crystals are found on the surface, and some of the specimens give thirty ounces of silver to the ton. ' v His Excellency the Governor will visit Norfolk Island next week. The Government announce that ne^ taxation proposals will " be brought forward at the earliest opportunity. It is proposed inter alia that a tax of a penny m the pound shall be placed ocj the unimproved value of land of urn wards of m value, half-penny 'jq (the pound oh Vhs capital reserves anc} : deposits of Panics, Mortgage and Loan, Companies, and financial institutions of every kind. Reductions m the Customs will^be made at the same time,