AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 80, 2 October 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(I'EB FBESS ASSOCIATION). Brisbane, October 1. In tho Legislative Assembly a motion was carried to introduce a Bill to increase members' salaries to L'6oo per annum. Sir Thomas Mcllwraith and Mr Nelson strongly opposed it. Melboubne, This Day. James Clarke, estate agent, has failed. His liabilities are set down at £54,800, and assets at £20,800. The revenue for the quarter amounts | to £1,553,800, a decrease of L 253.800. The Intercolonial 50 miles bicycle race on Saturday was won by Turner of the Melbourne Club by 19secs. There were |33 starters, of whom 12 finished. During the race Herman, of Bendit?o, collided ' with a cart and fell receiving seyeral iniuries, Sydney, This Day. The quarterly revenue returns show the receipts during that period to have been £2,400,300, a decrease of £197,000, chiefly in the Customs, Land, and Railway departments. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, have protested against the Bona venture, a second class vessel, being sent out to relieve the Orlando, as the flagship of the Australian squadron, urging it would be calculated to jeopardise the harmonious working of the Imperial Defence Act. Adelaide, This Day. The revenue for past quarter— £sso, loo an increase of £9,000 due to increased receipts in the Postal, Telegraphic, and Railway Departments.