AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9796, 16 July 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Eleotrio Telegraph - Copyright— United Prose Association MELBORUNE, July 15. The seismograph of the observatory recorded tremors about the time of the earthquakes .m the Western District. The vibrations registered lasted twelve minutes, but only for a few seconds was the shock sharp. Many windows were broken' at Wurnambool and walls cracked. The spire of St. Joseph's Catholic church was thrown out of plumb. Monuments m the cemetery were shifted and some overthrown. The second reading debate of the Naval Subsidy Bill is proceeding. Mr Watson moved that it be read six months hence. (Received July 16, 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 16. The death is announced at Beechworth Hospital for the Insane of Captain Chanter, husband of the late Mrs Scott Sid dons, the actress. Chanter's health* gave way during his wife's visit m 1881. SYDNEY, July 15. The return football match between New South Wales and Queensland was won by New South Wales by 11 points to 8. The medical opinion of • tlie Mudgee case is that the woman died m a tit, and the scantily-elothed children died subsequently of exposure. About the time when the deaths are supposed to have occurred the weather was bitterly cold, being twelve degrees below zero. Mr Carruthers moved a vote of censure on the Government m connection with revelations of mismanagement due to political influence, m the report of the Royal Commission on the Government dock. The Premier declined to treat it as an ordinary motion of censure. There will be a debate on the matter to-morrow night. - Lord Stanley, replying to a question, said he was aware of two instances where officers were deprived of lialf-pay or pension if they entered the Australian service. The regulation was based on the ground that the colonies were better served by officers on the active list. It would be unfair if retired officers were employed m the colony and treated more favorably than those employed by the Imperial Government. The Income Tax Amending Bill introduced is intended to stop a leakage to the. extent of over £30,000. It provides a tax on interest on foreign mortgages. Where the. mortgagee lives abroad, the mortgagor will be empowered to deduct the tax from the interest due. It is also piopoitd to make agents of shipping companies, whose chief office is outs-ide the State pay tax of five per cent, on outward freights and passage money. SYDNEY, July 16. Work has now been fully resumed at the Proprietary mine. Broken Hill. LAUNCESTON, July 16. One death and another fresh case of smallpox have occurred. PERTH, July 16. Clune, who found "Bobby Dazzler," the biggest nugget m Western Australia, found two nuggets at Sharks, weighing 210oz and 30oz respectively. Many representative shipowners fear trouble with their men at the end of the year. Everything, however, depends whether an improvement m the state of the trade takes place. ADELAIDE, July 16. . During a discussion m the Legislative Council on the Murray water question, Mr Addison said if New South Wales and Victoria denied South Australia reparian rights it would be the duty of the Government to send an army into the neighboring States to destroy the irrigation works. Before they resorted to that course, he hoped the question would be brought before the Privy Council.