AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 46, 21 February 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Mblboubne, February 20. The Income Tiiz Bill waa recommitted, and an amendment carried placing Assurance Companies, both local and foreign, on the 6ame basis by taxing them thirty per cant. ou their incomes. The Oommonwealth Parliament hag been further prorogued till March 31st. Brisbane, February 20. Treasury Bills at 102, beuing interest at 4 per con)'., have bean place ! on the ljcal market. Queensland has exported sugar to data amounting to 58,000 tons, against 74,000 for the same period 1 >s "■ ye r. Hob art, Februuy 20. Sir Joseph Ward arrived 1 si night, and was met and welcome! by tho Premier. Sydney, February 20. The enquiry into tha collision of the Wakatipu and Eurimbla will commence on Thursday. Another 3000 tons of wheat arrived from San Fraccisco. Cardinal Moran, accompanied by e number of kytntn, will visit the nyssions in Norfolk Island, Tou«a, Samoa, Fiji, New H.ebrid.B, and New Caledonia in August nex\ Sydney, Fjbruary 19. The charge of murd *r against AK-x. Johnston, Lr lniliu(> to ptocure meiica' uttfndarco for his wif <<, the outcojiie of his belief in faith Veiling, broke down. Th* J dg'i bell ihit tSt>ie w*b| neithir a 1 gal nor a m ral jm'ifi ati >n for the chaig-.