POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 648, 12 July 1892, Page 3

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

. * Ab the Government find that tbe tax assessments more than realise tbeir expectations, tbey have £10,000 to spare, and the following alteration is to be made in tho Act : ' Where money has been raised on debentures and the „money : invested in mortgages, those who pay on mortgage shall not be. called upon to pay income tax on debentures besides.' Mr Fish told the House that he paid the canvassers who obtained signatures for his petitions against woman suffrage 7s a day, and not at per hundred. The Minister for Lands told Mr O'Conor that Government cannot see their way to improve Crown lands before sale. ' It is probable tbat the writs for future elections will be made returnable in twenty-one days instead of forty days as at present. Ministers consider that the cost •f laying a new cable for this colony would be too great to be undertaken at present. It i« expected that if the Settlement Reserves Bill is passed there will be a great boom on the Wost Ooast. The Cabinet is considering tho question of setting up a Colonial Industries Commission. In bis annual report on the state Bubsidy on charitable subscriptions _Dr Macgregor says : — ' As long as this is given for outdoor relief ao long does the State provide a nutrient medium for the culture of parasitical organisms to prey on itself.' . „ ' Workmen's trains — to run morning and evening at fares of 2d return for each five miles up to 15 — aro asked for by Mr O'Conor.