AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 24 October 1908, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

COALITION GOVERNMENT.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Keiceiveid October 24, 10.25 a.vo.) BRISBANE, October 24. Meetings of Opposition, and Gov- j " ftmnieat supportersi were held lasa jiaght, and subeequemtly both parties attended a joint meet^. Mr PJclp, on behalf of Ms party, apacflinced. that they Thad unanimously agreedj to coalesce with the jWearaneoiib. Mr Kidston raid his party , wafl not unfMiimous. He had taken tibiei vcor "- usual couise of asking, them to a combined meeting, his justification being tie unusual position Jn QuecnßlaoH's publio life. 'Ilhe positdoni of tihe parties was such that nc party could | carry on. without the assaetaiice of other parties aad the beftt thiT»g for the country waa the Reorganisation, of tiiet j!>artiea^a r^Bult of the meating Kjdstoniwilll have a frea hand in, foxTnicg his new TVTinistiy, and 44 members! will support it»

INCOME TAX. I

ADELAIDE, October 24. The Treasurer has introduced hta Income Tax proposals which provide 'the raising of the), coemption, on.iv: earnest to £200. " Whop the income reached £800 thei exemption disap- , . ■ - . ~,