AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 106, 1 November 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE WOOLBROKERS DISPtJTE UNSETTLED. FAILURE OF A LOAN. (PKE PRESS ASSOCIATION). Bbisuane, This Day. Tenders for £756,000 worth of five per cent municipal debentures have been opened, only £3000 were subscribed, all at par. It has been decided to leave the balance open till the end of the year. Hob art, This Day. The Legislative Council insists on its amendments in the Government taxation proposals, and in consequence Mr Dobion, Premier, has announced that the Assembly will bring the business to an early close, and dissolve before Christmas. Sydney, October 31. The settlement of the local wool dis* put© is an far off as ever. Neither side sees its way clear to conduct the business on the lines laid down by the other. The sellers insist that they shall have control of the wool until it is paid for. At the half yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales, the chairman stated a hearty response had been made to the call for increased capital of the Institution, and although the first payment was not yet due, the sum of £86,000 out of £\ 17,000 had been paid. j This Day. | Sir G. Dibbs Btates the Canadian steamers will call at Fiji in future. Mklbodbne, This Day. It in understood the Agricultural Department intend to despatch Mr Wilson the dairy expert, to India with the view of establishing an export trade in butter. Adelaide, This Day. Mr William Redmond has arrived here on private business. In reply to an interviewer he said he did not know Mr Gladstone's intentions, but the Irish Party would take care the Premier did not drop Home Rule for long in order to push on his own liberal measures. " Wo will not help him," said Redmond. "If he does" he is confident there will have to be a general election, and is hopeful Home Rule will again have a majority, but sees no possibility of the too sections of the Irish Party uniting. The taxation bill has passed through committee in the Assembly. A proposal to exempt Life Insurance Companies from Income Tax was negatived. The Land Bill has passed its final stages in the Assembly;