AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

FIRE ON THE STEAMER ORIENT. THE FEDERATION QUESTION. (Per Press Association.) Sydney. August 15. In reply to the claim by Lvne that tho Fro'.ection vote was only 2000 less (c» c'u-sivc of the Labour vo>) tlnn Freetrnde at the recent, election Mr R'-id states that the Freetraders polled 62,749 votes and the Protectionists 54,872, and Libotir 21,538, making a total difference in favour of the Government policy of nearly 30,---000 vote 3. Brisbane, This Day. Bruce and Noble, who wore sontenccd to long terms in connection with tlio Walgefct shearing riots last year, have been released. The Orient has arrived. A large amount of hor cargo is seriously damaged by water. The loss is roughly estimated at twenty thousand pounds. The Press states the new batch of Legislative Councillors would have been improved by tho inclusion of two or three labour members, but against his own desire tho Premier respected the antipathy of tho Council to that element. . Adelaidk, This Day. The Assembly passed a Bill through all its stages to facilitate the naturalisation of aliens with a view to their policy at the coming election. The Premier stated the Premiers of New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland are favorable to South Australia initiating a Federal Enabling Bill, but Victoria saw the advantage of not doing so till New South Wales took the initiative. Western Australia took no interest in the matter till the other colonies made substantial progress. Hobart, This Day. In the Assembly the Treasurer introduced a Bill providing for a tax on the unimproved value of land.