AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 8

AN AWKWARD POSITION By Tcleßraph--Press Association--Copyrij]it Melbourne, December 21. The Federal Senate has again placed tho Government in an awkward position by rejecting that part of the taxation proposals which reduces the exemptions for middle-class incomes. The House of Representatives has adjourned. • SENATE'S AMENDMENT. ACCEPTED BY THE HOUSE. (Rec. December 21, 11.35 p.m.) Melbourne, December 21. Before adjourning, the House of Representatives accepted the Senate's amendment to tho Income Tax Bill, considerably reducing tho tax on in-1 comes between £200 and £733'. Tho revenue loses £50,000 thereby. LABOUR AND RECRUITING. ASSISTANCE DECLINED.. Sydney, December 21. the Political Labour League has declined to assist recruiting, the 'committoo stating that owing to certain works closing down, it is suspected that there i s a . co "? erte d movement, commenced • *£? dlsore dited and non-representa-I wve State and Federal Governments, to force people into the position where' enlistment will be tho only alternative to starvation. PRICE OF COAL. Sydney, December 21. The special tribunal set up to deal with the coal strike has increased the price of coal by 3s. a ton, as from Jannary 1, and has granted miners 15 per cent, increase in hewing rates and 20 per cent, for day labour. CRIMINALS HANCED. Sydney, December 21. Frank Franz and Roland Kennedy, who were found guilty of the murder of Constable Duncan, at Tottenham, on 26, have been hanged. These are tho first executions for four vears. [Constable Duncan was shot through an open window while typewriting in the police office.] George Wilson pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of George Pappagiorgi. [Wilson is one of the four prisoners who in October last made a murderous attack on a warder at Tamworth Gaol and effected an escape. He was a member of tho 1.W.W., and is at present serving a sentence of six years. In April" last a Greek named Pappagiorgi, a restauraut-keeper in Sydney, was found l murdered on his premises.]