AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 31 October 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

8 Received Odoher 31,11.10 a.m. Adeuidk, October 31. 5 In tlio Legislative Assembly Sir " J. W. Downer referred to tlio rejec- { tion of tbe Salaries Bill by the Lege islufcive Council, and also to tlio rejection of tlie New Zealand Treaty in U.K., with a view to ascertaining 11 what fresh taxation will be proposed I by the Government. The Premier I declined to state the views of tbe 0 Government until to-morrow. He f accused tlio Oppositionof corresponding and plotting with the Now Zcaland Opposition to defeat the a Treaty. y In the Legislative Council amotion ,t to recommit, tlio Salaries Bill was li negatived by 11 to 10. Stdnet, October 81. In the Legislative Assembly the ■ Premier moved the second reading '' of the Federal Bill. He referred to the objection that Parliaments II wore ignored and said after the Bill was dealt with by the people, Parliaj| men), would havo full power to suggest ami improve, and also have a t final veto. Ho denied that the Coni. volition Bill of 1891 was being put on c one side, and said tlio coming convention was free to take as much of that Bill as they saw lit, jj The Bill reducing the rents and . granting other relief to selectors has . passed its initial stages, e In the Legislative Council on the 1 motion of Mr O'Connor, tlio Income Exemption was fixed at £l6O. The amendment included eiomptiona of 11 tlio incomes of mutual life assur--0 ance societies. There is a growing feeling among o the members of the Assembly in favour of a compromise with the s Council, and the idea prevails that r the two Housos will como to terms - on a basis of the exemption of £250 e or £3OO under tlio Land Tax, and • £l6O or £2OO undor the Income Tax.