VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10467, 3 November 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

COLLAPSE AT MALY KILN

MANY WGR.KMhN KILLED

((Received 1 Last Niigjlilt, 11.30 o'clock.)

PARIS, NLvemibtvi- 2

A, coll-'iaprve at a malt kiln con-atn-uciting j;ogen.tii£eriaie kiTXe-d 30 and wounded twenty persons.

COLLESfGN AT SEA.

TWENTY-FOUR. PERSONS DROWNED.

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.)

LAS' PALMAS, Nov. 2. The steamer DioJibali stink in a collision. Twenty-one of the crew and thiriee passenger's were da-owned.

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

SON SHOOTS HI'S FATHER

WHILE DEFENDING HIS MOTHER.

Received Thila Morning, 1.5 o'edock.)

SYDNEY, November 2

A farmer named Biroderick has died! at. Goulbounn from a gunshot wound. A son ha s been, aa-restbed', for causing his father's death. Broderiok was dh-unk and assaulting his wife, when the son interposed. Btroidterick in his dying depositions .stated! thlat his son fired- in self-defence.

N.S.W. BUDGET.

PRESENTED IN THiE ASSEMBLY

PROPOSED NEW TAXATION.

Received Th'Ja Morning, 12.4 o'ed'ock

SYDNEY, November 2,

In t'he Assembly tine R>oii. Miv -iio- ! Gowen, in delivering the Budget, said the chief feature \vsa« tihe j>roposted new taxation-, thereby he expects to receive £200,000 ftom probate stamp duties, audi £775,000 firom income tax. ilie total revenue for 'last year was : £12,8&2,480, of whk<h £475,224 was in execs*? of the estimate. line expenditure- was £14,470,687, or £169,000 in excess, of the estimate. T3ie year opened with a credit, of £089,706, .and closied with a credit of £401,505. Tttie public, debit is £95,023,9J5, an iaicreaae for the year of £2,998,830. '-The railways and trani)wiays earned a.t the rate of £4 10& 3Jd per centum, the &raphifi, after paying expenses and inteireslt, "being £601,625. The total trade of tfliie- Sitate was £86,000,000, an increase of £6,000,000 on the previous year. The total production was £62,812,000. IQie wheat yield was twenity-eiglh* million bushels. The | estimated revenue for the current year, including new taxation, i& I £75,846,085, .and *« experifflture I £15,823,844.

FOUR BY-ELECTIONS

IN ALBERTA, CANADA

(Received November 2, 12.1Q p.m.)

VANCOUVER, November 1. The four by-elections in the Alberta province are imperilling the Provincial

Government. The Conservatives have gained three seats, despite the _ t«* that the province went liberal at the Federal elections.

CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY.

MERCANTILE VESSELS CONVERTIBLE INTO,CRUISERS. (Received November 2, 12.10 p.m.) OTTAWA, November 1. The Press publishes a statement that the building of commercial vessels, convertible into fast cruisers in war time, is likely to be the eventual policv of the Borden Government.