AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

VICTORIAN LAND TAK.

'TAXICAB ACCIDKNT.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

MELBOURNE, December 10.

(Received December 10, at 10.21 a.m.)

'11)0 Assembly agreed to reduce the Land Tax from three farthings to a halfpenny in the- J3, and the Bill was then passed. The weather is very hot and droughty. (Received December 10, at 10.21 a.m.)

Tho Minister of Defence has accepted the tender of the Austral Hat Mills to supply 84,000 hats for tho senior cadets under the new defence scheme.

The Marine Board considered tho sailing of the Papamii in spite of tho embargo placed on the steamer, and decided to prefer the question to the Premier for further action.

All members of the Victoria League bearing the names of Mary, -May, Muiion, and Maria have decided to make a Coronation gift lo Queen Mary. Tho contributions axe fixed at from a penny to a pound.

SYDNEY, December 10.

A taxicab collided with a dray, and a man named Packwood was killed and four others were injured seriously. Tho medical report on school children's defects referred to Victorian and not New South Walts schools. Under tho Government's new education scheme six evening continuation schools will be started in Sydney in February. Tho sealing of tho Killiugworth njino is completed. No attempt will be made to explore it for some time.