INTERCOLONIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8901, 4 September 1890, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

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A FATEFUL VOYAGE.

Melbourne, September 3,

(Beoelved September 3. at 10.50 a.m.)

During the voyage of the Avenger four deaths occurred. Two of the orew died from accidental poisoning, the captain of gangrene, and a seaman fell overboard. PROTECTION V. FREETRADE. Sydney, September 3. (Received September 4, at 1.15 a.m.) After the Federation resolutions aTe finished, the Treasurer will bring down his Financial Statement and taxation proposals. The latter will be distinctly Freetrade, and the Government are prepared to make a fair fight on the question of Freetrade or ProtecA RACEHORSE RECOVERED. The racehorse Cranbrook has been found hidden in a cave about 20 miles from where he was stolen. It is believed he was taken for stud purposes. A RICH FIND. A rich reef of gold has been Btruck near Orange, and the lode is 7ft wide and increasing. The estimated yield is 500oz to the ton.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Adelaide, September 3,

(Received September 3, at 10.50 a.m.)

Mr Playford has announced the policy of the new Government, the principal point of which will be an enterprising extension of public works, for which a loan will be asked. A railway will be made from the Great Northern line to Inniminka at a cost of a million and a quarter. Three hundred thousand pounds will be spent on new rolling stock, £170,000 on a new railway station at Adelaide, and £400,000 on a water supply. The land policy will include repurchase of land suitable for working men's blocks. A bill is promised for making the system of education free, the loss by which will be made np by an increase of the probate duty, and an increase of the income tax from property by 2d, from trades by Id in the pound; while absentees will have to pay 4d in the pound more than at present. '. ■