TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 207, 5 January 1894, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

HEAVY SNOW STORMS IN ENGLAND. THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL. INCOME TAXATION IN AMERICA. j I'.y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright j (PER PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London. January 4 ■ Mr Orlando Potter, the New York millionaire, is dead. Heavy snow storms have been experienced throughout England. Since the arrangements for the compromise between the Government and the Unionist Party in connection with the Parish Councils Bill, good progress lias been made with the measure in the House of Commons. The Sunderland &teimer Amazinas, with a crow of 17, t» missing. It is feared she foundered during a hurricane in the Bay of Bi* cay. The Premier has received numerous complaints about the danger of unloading cargo at Rio de Janeiro in the midst of the cannonading; He has replied generally deploring the lamentable state of affairs in Brazil, but pointing out that Great Britain has no right to interfere. Washington, January 4. The Democratic members of the Committee of Ways and Means propose that a tax of 2 per cent should be imposed on all incomes over 4000dols per annum, as well as a similar tax on the net earnings of all corporations.