AUSTRALIAN NEWS
BIG THEFT CHARGE,
AGAINST SOLICITOR
(Australian Press Association)
BRISBANE, Dec. 18
A well known Brisbane solicitor. Robert McGowan, has been arrested and charged with stealing £7OO, the property of a client. The prosecuting officer told the Court that tile defalcations amounted to £22,000.
McGowan was remanded on hail
VICTORIAN BUDGET
MELBOURNE, Dec. 19
Treasurer Hogan in the Assembly, introduced the Budget and indicated the provision was made for additional revenue for the year amounting to seven hundred and seven thousand sidling, raised from additional taxation on incomes of companies, probate, stamps, cheques, betting and entertainments. It is intended to increase the present rate oil incomes from personal exertion hv three half-pence in the pound, -and on incomes from property by threepence.
WOODFULL INJURES HAND. MELBOURNE, Dec. 19
Woodful!, Australia’s opening batsman, who was struck on the hand by a ball from the fast howler, Harwood, is found to have the third and fourth metacarpal bones of the left hand broken. He may be unable to play again before the test side is chosen for England.
HOBART BYE-ELECTION. HOBART, Dec. 10
Unexpected • ...cross-voting enabled Frost (Labourite) to win Franklin seat in the House of Representatives, Black low (Nationalist) being runnerup.
SHEARING RATES. BRISBANE, Dec. 19
A reduction in wages in the pastoral industry, including reduction in rates for shearing from 45s to 44s per •hundred was granted by the Full Bench of the Arbitration Court.
PREMIER BAVIN
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 20
Premier Bavin announced that the Crown Solicitor had been instructed to apply to the High .Court of Australia for a writ ok.-iprohibition, restraining the .Federal Arbitration Court from attempting to exercise jurisdiction over the State Government. He added that 'Work at Eotlibury .colliery will continue until it was ascertained how the law stood in regard to the Arbitration Court's jurisdiction. d
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