AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2415, 22 October 1892, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney, Oct. 19. The Defence Commissioners in their report suggest that New South Wales should invite representatives from the other colonial Governments to discuss hew the colonies could best assist each other in time of war, such [conference to be one of statesmen only. The Legislative Assembly has debated a motion in favour of a progressive land tax. An amendment to the effect that the system of raising revenue by means of direct taxation of land values, irrespective of improvements, would greatly promote the welfare of the colony, was agreed to, and the amended motion was carried by 19 to 10, The Government voted for the motion and for the amendment. The Government have decided to issue the new inscribed stock as low as £lO, so as to give small investors an opportunity of taking some of it. The Lubeck, which arrived to-day from Samoa, reports all quiet. Oct. 20. The Inscribed Stock Bill has passed through all its stages in the Legislative Assembly. A young man named Dixon shot his sweetheart, Miss Marcontelli, near Rosedale, and then committed suicide. The girl is not expected to recover. Her parents had forbidden her to speak to Dixon, and she complied with their wish, which exasperated Dixon,

Traffic on the northern railway, which has been interrupted owing to a land slide, has been resumed. Melbourne, Oct. 20.

There is a great outcry in the city against the number of totalizator shops conducting business openly in the principal streets. The number of youths Banging around them all day is positively alarming. Mrs Parker has been acquitted on a charge of forgery. In summing up His Honour said there was no doubt the prisoner had been taken away from trial, Mrs Parker is still held in custody pending payment of her estreated bail. The notice of motion given in the Legislative Council providing for the purchase of the New Hebrides and New Caledonia has been withdrawn. Brisbane, Oct. 19. During the first fourteen weeks of the Barrier strike the loss to the ra -j_way revenue was £89,000. Information from “V ’ states that five Ma Aa y S have been sentenced Bath for the murder of Harris and Steward, of the Australian exploring party. Four were executed and the fifth died. Of the others convicted of taking part in the murder seven were banished for five years, and three sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, ADELAIDE, Oct. 19.

The captain of the local branch of the Salvation Army has returned from a visit to England, where he went to make enquiries as to the working of the Army. He reports that the Army is in financial straits, and that a commercial committee has been formed, so that. General Booth will not have complete control of the finances as in the past. It is hoped by this means that the Army will be placed in a more solvent condition. He thinks that the Army has reached a crisis and passed the zenith of its fame, and that its influence will now begin to wane. Hobart, Oct. 19.

The proposal to collect 9d in the £ on life assurance cash bonuses has been defeated. The Assembly has agreed to a proposal that assuiance and insurance companies shall pay a license fee of £SO, and foreign companies are to pay an additional tax of per cent on every £IOO received over £ISUO.