AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 6128, 19 December 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ) (per united tress association.) Received December 19, at 11 a.m. Sydney, December 1!>. Arrived—Bella, and Grace Dent, from Kaipara. Melbourne, December 19. Arrived Excelsior, from lYiiipiu'ii; Loongana, from New Zealand. The Land and Income Tax Bill was read a third time in the Legislative Assembly by 47 votes to 45. 11l Committee on the Bill an amendment was carried which exempted mutual life offices from the Land Tax. The amendment was unsuccessfully opposed by the Government. Abbott's Tannery, near Bendigo, has been burned to the ground, tho clamago being estimated at LIO,OOO. The building and contents were insured for L 5.500. Adelaide, December 19. Tho Legislative Assembly passed tho Woman's Suffrage Bill. Tho only alteration made in Committee was in the direction of granting women the right to voto through the post. The amendment, however, is conditional on tho Legislative Council assenting to it. Newcastle, December 1!). Arrived —Alexa, from the Bluff. The Queanbean newspaper gives currency to a report that a high authority states that the identity of Mr Crosswell with Roger Ticliborne will shortly bo established beyond doubt.