AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 319, 21 May 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. MORE REDUCTIONS IN OFFICERS' SALARIES. AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON. TWO MEN SENTENCED to DEATH. SUFFERINGS OF THE UNEMPLOYED. [PER PBRSS AS>OCIATIO*: J Melbouenk, May 18. The Tariff Commission suggest that the advalorem system should be applied to the cattle aud sheep Duties, while horses and pigs should be admitted free. This Day. It is feared that further reductions in the Civil Servants' salaries will be necessar}'. If additional taxation is required the Government is almost certain to re sort to Income Tax, and the proposals of last session with regard to an Absentee Tax An extraordinary phenomenon was wit nested at Koroit, a township about 180 miles S W of Melbourne. An enormous quantity of cobwebs was rained on everything, and gave the appearance of a cover ing of ice, while the ground became alive with myriads of small spiders. The two men, Watson and Douglas, have been sentenced to death for the murder of the Frenchman Possett. Hobart, This Day. The Opposition party is quite disorganised through a breach between the Hon. J Dobson and the Hon J Henry. A meeting of the part.) was called to con sider the situation, but broke up without the election of a leader. Sydxky, This Day. The Agent General for New South Wales has wired that the Imperial Go vernment does not feel justified in press ing for more than JL'2,500 as the amount for the first claim in the Costa Rica packet case HM,\ Cnracoa arrested 13 natives of the Wouva Island, in the Solomon Group, for being concerned in the murder of Captain Donald Guy A resident, in a letter to the newspapers, states the daughters of old colonial families, domestic helps, and a thousand unemployed are sleeping in the parks.