AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11377, 13 September 1902, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Eieotrio . Telegraph—Copyright. -'..■.*.' NEW ZEALAND MUTTON tfOR QUEENSI__ND. ' (Received September 12th, 9.56 a._t.) BRISBANE, September ,12. Owing to i_e difficulty of obtaining sheep, arrangements have been, nude to get a shipment of frozen mutton by' the Na__ahire from New Zealand. QU___*SLAND INCOME TAX BILL. The Income Tax Bill was passed, dm the Assembly by a majority of five votes. AN ABORTIVE CONF__-3NOEJ MELBOURNE, September 12. Tbe waterside workers, in conference with the shipowners, requested an. increase in -their wages from Is to Is 34 per hour. The Conference proved abortive. THE "VICTORIAN DISSOLUTION. The elections have been fixed for October Ist. The Minstry, df returned, will immediately reinstate the Factories Act. THE REACTION FROM FEDEJUT-ONi. HOBART, September 12, Mr Hall, a member of the' Legislative Assembly, bas given notice of motion favouring co-operation with Western Australia and Queensland to secure separation from the Commonwealth on a basis of intercolonial freetrader A THEATRICAL TOUR ABANDONED. (Received September 13$*, 12.66 Am.) SYDNEY, September 12. NeHie Stewart's tour of New Zealand has been abandoned, in consequence of the death of her father, and the critical _l_esa of her mother. Mr Musgrove sends a new comic opera company instead, reaching Auckland on October 6th. [A Wellington correspondent __*'__- Press" telegraphrad yesterday as followßi— "Owing, it is tmderstood, to the death of Miss Nellie Stewart's father; Mr Musgrove has altered the plans of the proposed tour of his dramatic company with "Sweet Nell of Old Dmry,'» and will sendinsfcead an opera company, probably playing "A C-i-ese Hc_eymoon." Tbe dates already booked for the dramatio company wifi. be utilised* for the opera season."]