AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(PEB PRK?* AS-SOCIAMOIp l ■? % July lOi : The Coroner'-* Court committed for trial the members of the larrikin (tang arrested for the murder of the man Pert, who was kicked to death. Alhany, July 10. Sir Matthew Davies, who has arrived here en route to Melbourne, is far from well. He saya he never had any intention of going beyond Colombo, and is quite prepared to meet the charge on which be stands committed for trial. He contends tbat if the Mercantile Bank directors are prosecuted there should be a prosecution of the directors of all the suspended banks. Melbourne, This Day. Adgors, cashier of tho Land Mortgage , and Financial Company, has been arrested , on a charge of embezzlement. His defalcations exceed £2000. Tbe Government will shortly submit to the House a Bill for the imposition of an Income Tax and it will provido for a minimum of three pence in the £ aud a maximum of 8d being charged on incomes derived from personal exertions, exemptions being made in the case of incomes under £200. Boisbank, This Day, Mr Wragge predicts heavy weather between N.W. and S. and it is sure to be met with between Tasmania and the Bluff during the next few days,
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 9, 11 July 1893, Page 2
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