INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 90, 3 April 1876, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

' •■ " t /"i. E'Pjsb AbawataJ ' . .},-., fri-":-'- <•* MiXBOi/BNE, March 27. . The' "L-nd,' Property, and Income Tax Bill having only passed its "second reading by the small niMJorJty of , tbr«e, it has been withdrawn by the Government. 'The iron hand resolution, proposed this time by a member of the

Opf*o«itibn, was the oause of the .Government />b aining such a Bmall majority. It is rumored that a noj-confl lence motion is to be proposed to-morrow. .Thef Treasurer p'oposeß the v l*»sue of.TreasurvfßUrsto me it the dpfl<!ien/*y. AM the business is nearly cleared off, and the prorogation is expected to take place next week. ,- .. f • '• An extraordinary rainfall occurred on Saturday. Water came down literally in buckets ful nearly all over the couot r y. aud much damage has been done in several directions. Subscriptions for. sending, a rifle team to Wimbledon and Philadelphia are coming in. Captains King and Greenfield and Mr T. * Draper have been selected as three out of the five required to go. A portion of a vessel of about 300 tons has been found on Laniock Island, Gipp«land. The following is a li«t of the new Adelaide Ministry:-— Hawkes, Chief Secretary, Blyth, Treasurer; -Bucant, Commissioner [of Pubic Works; .Mann, Attorney General; Playford, Commissioner of Crown Lahdß; Everard, , Minister for Education.