AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 149, 20 December 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

, « THE LAND AND INCOME TAX IN VICTORIA. PROSECUTED FOR DELIVERING SEDITIOUS SPEECHES. PORT DARWIN LINE INTERRUPTED. NEW AUSTRALIAN COLONIES DESTITUTE. (PRB PRKSB ASSOCIATION.] Melbourne, Decembpr 19. The Land and Income Tax Bill has been read the third time in the Legislative Assembly by 47 votes to 35. In Committee on the Bill an amendment was carried exempting mutual life offices from the land tax. The amendment was unsuccessfully opposed by the Government. Abbott's tannery, near Beudigo, has been burned to the ground, the damage being estimated at i'lo,ooo. The building and its contents were insured for 4,T)500. This Day. In the Legislative Assembly the Absentees' Land Tax Bill, imposing an addition of 20 per cent, on property owned by persons absent from the colony for a period of two years, was read a second time. The same Chamber has passed the Standard Time Bill. The Legislative Council, by 88 to 5, carried a motion to postpone the discussion on the Land and Income Tax Bill for a fortnight. Sydney, This Day. In addition to the interruption on the telegraph line to Port Darwin the West Australian line is partially disabled. Hon. J. A. Want, Attorney-General, has decided to prosecute a number of tho Domain orators for delivering seditious "speeches aud issuing seditious pamphlets. Hobart, This Day. The Attorney-General has submitted an opinion that the Colonial Treasurer is only obeying the law iv demanding Income Tax from Victorians doing business in Tasmania. Under the Act, he says, there is nothing contrary to English law or practice in imposing or collecting the Tax. Adelaide. Thig Dap. The Governor has received a communication from the British Legation in Buenos Ayres notifying tbat twenty families in the New Australian settlement there are destitute. The letters say that if these people are afforded means to return to Australia it will obviate much suffering, especially amongst the women and children.