AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 287, 10 June 1907, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[by elbotwo mleoraph — copyright.] Tpbb press association.] TAXATION OF OFFICIALS Melbourne, June 9. ! The High Court declined to appeal j to th« Privy Council in the income ' tax cases. As a result of the decision j Sir John Forrest says that a Federal Bill will be introduced to provide for the collection by the States of in- i come tax from Commonwealth officers. J INTER-UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. ; In the inter-university boat racn , Sydney beat Victoria by three j lengths, Adelaide a bad third. BAUER'S MURDER. Evidently robbery was the motive ; for the murder of Bauer. He was in j the habit of carrying a bag contain- > ing thousands of pounds' worth of i precious stones and pearls and de- | positing it in the bank over night, j This bag is missing, and it is stated ; that it contained gems worth two or three thousand pounds. There are indications that he was ' struck down when weighing dia- j monds on scales on the office table, j His hat was pierced where the fatal . blows were struck. j Bauer was a partner in the firm of , Bauer, Shaumer and Bauer, impor- , ters and dealers of precious stones, : doing a very large business through- j out Australia, with their own pearling fleet at Broome.