AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6783, 21 September 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

♦ Press Association— Electric Telegraph— Copyrigh SYDNEY, Sept. 20. Sir George Dibbs' estate will be realised by arrangements with the creditors. Sept. 21. — News from Samoa reports that the measles are spreading rapidly, though in a mild form, and uo deaths have been re« corded. MELBOURNE, Sept. 21. In the Legislative Assembly the Colonial Treasurer announced that there would be a credit balance on the year's operations of £3402, and the deficiency to be carried forward would be reduced to a million and a quarter sterling. The income tax would, he said, be deferred for the present. During the debate on Sir Henry Wrixon's motion thata Royal Commission be appointed to enquire into the fiscal question, the Premier moved an amendment that a Parliamentary Committee be set up to enquire into the effect of the fiscal system upon industry and production. The amendment was carried by 45 to 11. A Select Committee has been appointed to consider whether any advantageous change can be made in the present mode of conducting business in Parliament, especially with regard to the appointment of Ministers. They intend to obtain from New Zealand the result of investigation in that colony. James, the cyclist, rode 25 miles in 61 minutes, breaking the world's record. Sir M. Davies and Oas. Bell, of the Mercantile Bank, made an effort to stop the prosernticr, ug-Ainst themselves on the ground that they had previously been acquitted on practically the same charge. The Bench disallowed the application. ADELAIDE, Sept. 21. The Colonial Treasurer, addressing the Assembly, said if it can bo shown that a drain of gold in time of pressure can be made ho was prepared to recommend Ins colleagues to bring in a Bill to establish a State Bank of issue next session. The Premier has, in pursuance of the conference of Premiers held in Melbourne during the financial crisis, completed the draft of a Bill to regulate banking in the colonies, somewhat on the American Federal banking laws. The ship Genesta, which went ashore ia Spencer Gulf, has been floated off. BRISBANE, Sept. 21. In the Legislative Assembly, a motion affirming the desirableness o for the Northern portion of the colony wag negatived by 31 to 16,