AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10737, 30 August 1913, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

United Press Association —By Elec"trio" Telegraph—Copyright Received August 29, 1 p.m Sydney, August 29

The Assembly passed the second reading of the Closer Settlement Bill, whioh provides for declaring oartain areas within fifteen miles of a railway or thirty miles of the River Murray to be landlocked areas and unless the owners cultivate a certain area in a certain time a tax is to be imposed on them The Bill also facilitates the cutting up of estates by providing for payment by Treasury Bills at 4 per cent. It also provides for annual payment by a settler whioh is colleoted by Government and paid to the,yendor, Government issuing a negotiable certificate for the amount of purohase.