AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13, 16 January 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Stdkxt, January 15. A question whicH will be brought before the next mee'ing of the (federal Cabinet will hare reference to thf method of payiag the rebate on aug«r allowed to growers who employ only whits labour. This arrangemant practically makes Queensland piy the whole excise and as the rebnta is piid out of the eicis«. and New South WaUs are piying the cost of a " White Australia " so far as sugar is concerned. Mr Fhilp, the Queensland Premier, argues that the whole sugar con Burners in the Commonwealth should piy. Brisbane, January 14. The B>shop of North Queensland bar returned from a visit round hisdiorese. He declares that he is deeply im preswd w th the degraded moral conditions of the bulk of the alien population in th« North, and he inteods t< proceed to the Southern Stat»s to arouse interest in northern missionary Tjork. The indulge-ce in rice, he says, i«c deplorable that common prudsnce calls at once for active steps. Sydney, January 14. The Government has received advice that a million worth of Twasu>y Bill? have bean fl nted in London at par. A QUEENSLAND LOAM. Brisbane, January 15. The Treasurer is awaring advice? from the Agent-General, Sir Horace Tozer, preparatory to placing a million lean on the London markets Received 16, 1.19 a.m. SydsbT, J-ruary 15. Arrive! : G*a"has, from D'lnedin. A large number of sheep removed from the plains to the *ab'e!and, near Koscinsko, resulted in 9100 per'shiie in tl • snow ia ono nigh•