AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9494, 17 August 1891, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

[Received August 15, at 11.50 a.m.] NEW ZEALAND TAXATION. SYDNEY, August 15. The Sydney Morning Herald, in discussing tha Now Zealand Taxation Bill, characterises it as the moot extreme and sweeping legislation ever seriously proposed in these Colonies, and as so daring a venture that the other Colonies will be content to wait and learn the result. COLONIAL MILITARY FORCES. MELBOURNE, August Id. General Sir Frederick Roberta contemplates visiting Australia at the end of next year, as he is desirous of acquainting himself with the strength and efficiency of the Colonial military forces and defences. QUEENSLAND POLITICS. BRISBANE, August 15. Mr Donaldson has again resigned the leadership of the Opposition, which is thoroughly disorganised. Sir S. Griffiths has introduced in the Legislative Assembly a scheme of Provincial separation, by which ho proposes to constitute the southern, central and northern districts as separate autonomous Provinces. The House has empowered the Government to issue close on a million’s worth of Treasury bills. [Received August 16, at 0 p.m.] PBDESTSIANISM. SYDNEY, August 16. A Twenty-mile Walking Match for a sweepstake of .£2O each, between Goreman of Queensland, Bowen of New Zealand, and Whanis of Victoria, resulted in a win for Bowen, who is well-known in Otago and Canterbury as a long-distance walker, in dh ISifinm.