AUSTRALIAN NEWS. THE FEDERAL REVENUE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. THE FEDERAL REVENUE.

frniiss AasowATioN.l (Received January 30, 10.38 a.m.)' MELBOURNE, This Day. Sir Gcorgo Turner climates that Micro will bo a falHng-oti in the Federal revenue for the year. 'I he lliwfc six months shows a fall of £136,000, and Im expccla that in the wound half 1 lie re will be n decrease of £400,000. Tluv estimated increuee Jn expenditure is £400,000. 'llio iii'At nix mouths shown an iueroiiAO of £•164,000, including £130,000 in connection with Iho nnv.il agreement, and £90,000 election expenses and sugar bounties. A LOVE TRAGEDY. I CHARTERS TOWERS, This Day. A startling tragedy has occurred here. A man named Albert Clarke nhot a Mim Williams, and then blew his own brains out. Miss Williams in in a critiail foudition. Disappointed lovo it, suppo^d to be tho cause of tl)6 trouble. LABOUR DISPUTES. HOTEL EMPLOYIiKB IN TROUBLE. MINERS ON STRIKE. (Received January 30, 10.13 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Trouble has occurred in a number of city hotels over an Arbitration Court award in tho case of cnokn aud kitchenmen. In aeverul of tho hotels there has boon a wholcwlo discharge of employer*. Tho employers fcttite they have t^iken tho action owing to the higli-htinded proccduiv of thu employees since- the award. Residents in tho hotels are much incon vcnioncod. In connection witlt ho strikes at the Northern Extonded and othor mine* in tho Nowcnstle district, the Colliery Proprietors' Association hus refused tho ro(juest of the Miners' Federation for a conference. The miners asked for the conference with the view of tho proprietors granting an hicreiuso on tho hewing rate, us sett.cd by tho .Arbitration Court, aud aL«) with tho idea that both parties should approath the Court with the nbject of having the award revised. Tli6 proprietors reiitsed, ou tho grounds that the miners initiated the action which reMilted in the duspulcd award, and (hat tho award made the nece.v.ary provision for a conference in tho c««e of any dispute.