INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

I PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Dunedin, June 23. The I)unedin Manufacturers Associa« tion met to-day to consider the taxation proposals of the Government. It was decided to send a telegram to the Premier suggesting that (lie inland postage rate should be retained as at present in preference to the imposition of an income tax nn trade and commerce, and also that •,any deficiency sho'iild be met by the im« position of a primage duty. „—". " "Chkistchttbch, June 23. '-•T-fie-.Com'mittee, of the Industrial Association hiavepasSefa a resolution express ing regret at I lie intention of tbe Premier to introduce class taxation by makings distinction he' ween business men and professional men in the assessment for income tax. They consider that" by this proposal industries will be _an fairly taxed' and the progress of the Colony hindered. .Wellington, June 24. Thfc FTon Captain Frasei 4 , M.L C , wfm has been ailing sometime, died this afternoon. '#'*' Several young women beloneme to Wellington' haye boon engaged for the •team of female f.iol bailers which is being got tog'eth r in .Auckland, and they are 'to leave^for that city on Saturday. The- licen-erl Victualler*'' Conference to day adopted a draft Bili fir pre«enta--1 tion to Pa'rliment, the clause dealing with oompeusation for Ucmues refused t

being struck oat. The chief provisions are — Appeal from decisions of committee, and a better definition of the powers of a Licencing Bench. The Conference has closed.' Hoeitiea, June 24. John Stephens, a young man, bad a boxing match last n'gbt, but received no punishment. He had been rubbed down and dressed, and was sitting on a box in the room about a quarter of an hour afterwards talking, when he fell over and .died almost immediately. \t the inquest to day a verdict was returned that the deceased died faom heart disease.