AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 165, 16 July 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, July 16. ] With reference' to the statements about providing cold stoiage on the Vancouver boats, the Union Company has written to Sir E. Barton stating that space exists on the present stamers but is not extensively utilised. Belgrade, July 15. Fine raics have fallen south of the tropic of Capricorn. Received 15, 10 6 p.m. Sydney, July 15. Mr Osrruthers moved a vote of censure on the. Government in connection with the revelations of mismanagement, due to political icfluence, in the report of the Royal Commission on the Government dock. The Premier declined to treat it as an ordinary motion of censure. The debate on the matter will take place to-morrow. Received 16,11 a m Sydney, July 15. The Income Tax Amending Bill has j been introduced. It was intended to stop leakage to the extent of over' £30,000, and piovid-s a tax on interest ■ on foreign mortgages. When the ; mortgage lives xbroad the mortgagor will hi ewpcwer.'d to deduct the fax. from the interest due. 16 is als;> proposed to tuak* the agents of shipping companies, whose chuf ■. ffiso is outside the State, p»y a tax <f 5 per cent, on outward freights and passage monies. M> dical opinion in the Mudgee case is that the woman died in a fit. She was scantily clothed. The children died subsequently from exposure, as afcou*; the time wbea their deaths are supposed to h.<ve occurred the weather was bit erlv cold, the temperature bein* twelve degree* below z ro, Received 16 1.15 a.m. Melbjurse, July 15. Tbe secotd radiog debits on the Nival Subsidy Bill is procst ding. Mr Watson moved that it ba read six months hence.