Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 March 1914, Page 3

Australian Cables.

ELECTiUC TEiaSUKAVH COPYKIGHT. j_I*ER I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.! Received This Day 10.20 a.m.) .\E\V SOUTH "WALES FINANCE. Sydney, I'his Day. The Budget" ior the last financial year closed with a debit balance" of £1,107,000. The Hon. AY. Holinan admitted that a serious blunder had been committed in dropping the Iconic Tax and Stamp Duties Bills. i\ew South Wales was the most lightly taxed State in the Commonwealth, the ' taxes only amounting to 7s -k\ per head. He proposes to raise £30,000 by imposing charges on outgoing vessels on the same basis as the charges on inward vessels. Companies will be taxed upon own profit at a flat rale of Is in-the £.

SYDNEY EIIiES. A lire destroyed a portion of Morley Johnson's furniture warehouse in George-street. The damage is estimated at £5000. Barrett's boot factory at Redfern was destroyed by fire. Two horses were incinerated in the stables adjoining the factory. DROWNED. Adelaide, This Day. Two Englishmen, Clement Bayer and Stewart Arniytage, cooks on the steamer Saros, while bathing, were carried out by the tide and drowned. Arinytage's body has not been recovered.