AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 71, 21 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

(PER PRESB ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, This Day. In the Legislative Assembly the Colonial Treasurer announced there would be a credit balance on the year's operations of £'3.403, and the deficiency to be carried forward would be reduced to a million and a quarter sterling. The Income Tax would, he said, be deferred for the present. During the debate on Sir Henry Wrixon's motion that a Royal commission be appointed to enquire into the fiscal question, the Premier moved an amendment that a Parliamentary Committee be set up to enquire into the effect of the fiscal system upon industry and production. The amendment was carried by 45 to 11. A select committee was appointed to consider whether any advantageous change can be made in the present mode of conducting business in Parliament, especially in regard to appointments. Ministers intend to obtain from New Zealaud the result of the investigation in that colony. James, the cyclist, rode 25 miles in 61 minutes, breaking the world's record. Sir M. Davies and Jas. Bell, of the Mercantile Bank, made an effort to stop the prosecution against themselves on the ground they had previously been acquitted practically on the same charge. The Bench disallowed the application. Sydney, September 23. Sir G. Dibbs' estate will be realised by arrangement with the creditors. This Day. News from Samoa reports measles to be spreading, though in a mild form, and no deaths are recorded. Adelaide, This Day. The Colonial Treasurer, addressing the Assembly, said he was prepared to recommend his colleagues to bring in a Bill to establish a State Bank of Issue next session. The Premier has in pursuance of Conference of Premiers held in Melbourne during the financial crisis, completed the draft of a Bill to regulate the banking in the Colonies somewhat on lines of American Federal Banking 'Jaws. The ship Genesita, which went ashore at Spencer Gulf, has been floated off. BEIBBANE, This Day. In the Legislative Assembly, a motion affirming the desirableness of separation for the northern portion of the colony was negatived by 31 to 16.