AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. 1 Sydney,' April 24. The Government will introduce a Bill into the Legislative Assembly, providing for the imposition of a tax on the value of land, and not on the acreage, and also a Bill for the taxation of property. It is also intended to introduce measures for the establishment of an agricultural college near Sydney, and experimental farms in the north, south, and western districts. Pkhtii (W.A.), April 24. At a public meeting to-day the action of the Governor, Sir F. Napier Broome, in refusing to sanction the construction of the ■ Bunbury to Darling Kanges railway, was condemned. Brisbane, April 24. The police who were despatched to the Mount Merlin station, Clonowong, to inquire into the reported murder of a white boy and four blacks by the manager of the staiion, have returned, and report that the rumour is entirely without foundation, and that its origination was the outcome of spite by a boy engaged on the station
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2464, 26 April 1888, Page 2
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165AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2464, 26 April 1888, Page 2
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