To-Day's Cables.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 1 December 1906, Page 3

To-Day's Cables.

india's opnjm culture: .She ASea to be restricted. :_ {Sgcelved December i, o ; oo &M.) ':. .: . .: ..BONDON, Friday. ,£ i Mr'..Jphri .Motley, the Secretary of State for India, has ordered a reduction : of the area licensed' for poppy cultivSc.fiori in India: R" SSI-WOR^MENfSiiiOMPENSA- -;_.' j TION-^ILL. ■;.-. ■ ' INCOIiE TAX (Received December t; '&3'a.m.) T\ -r.\- ,-: LONDON; Friday. ---^TheWorkirien's Compensation" BHI has been amended' fn the (House -of Commons at Mr Herbert . Gladstone's' instance". ', An employer is now not liable unless the injury disables a workman for at least a week, while injuries causing death or serious, and permanent disable- ■ ment are', excluded from . cases where claims are debarred when, accident is .doe to the workman's serious and wilful misconduct. . Mr Gladstone (Home Secretary) agreed • that when an injury disabled a workman for a fortnight he was entitled to compensation - from the date the accident occurred. -... ■ Mr Austin Chamberlain said he feared -that the proposal would encourage malingering. The Labour Party approving, the amendment \yas carried. The Select .'Committee under the Presidency; of Sir Charles Dilke, appointed to inquire info the Income Tax, recommends a graduation by the extension of ■ abatements, and also a supertax on large racemes with differentiation between earned and unearned income. £■>:'- .. . * .' - ■ '