AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19261, 27 August 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

HUGE TAXATION CLAIM. WHIT AGAINST SIR SIDNEY KIDMAN. 1 I Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, MELBOURNE, August 26. A writ -for £166,000 has been issued against Sir Sidney Kidman, grazier, for land tax alleged to be due to the Commonwealth for the financial years 1915-16 to 1922-23. Sir Sidney Kidman’s case is one of those mentioned in the House of Representatives by Mr Seullin. on whose complaint that £2,000,000 in land tax and £2,000,000 in income tax was outstanding because the Taxation Department did not press its claims against “big" men the Government decided to set up a Commission of inquiry. DEMENTED WOMAN’S ACT. SYDNEY, August 25. Mrs M.‘Grill had been under medical treatment. She had been suffering from nervous trouble. The family had just returned from a motor drive. The deed was committed while her husband was outside attending to his car. The gas taps were turned on and the doors and windows fastened in the room where the bodies were found. Mrs M'Grill cut tiro throat of her eight months-old daughter and then cub ter own throat. She left a note saying that she felt herself becoming paralysed, and that the world -was too hard for her. CAPTAIN OF BRISBANE EXONERATED. BRISBANE, August 25. Irr connection with the stranding of the cruiser Brisbane on a reef near Port Moresby on July 22, a court martial concharge of negligence or default against the commander (Captain Danby). The uuestion was whether a proper lookout had been kept. The court found the charge not proved, and dismissed it.