MUCH NEEDED LEGISLATION

Southland Times, Issue 18059, 31 January 1903, Page 3

MUCH NEEDED LEGISLATION

THE AUBURN MURDER ALLEGED EFFECT OF AN INCOME TAX RETRENCHMENT PROPOSALS I [United Press — By I Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] I SYDNEY, Jan. 30. ' J The Labour Conference his resolved f in favour of an amended Navigation 1 Act and a Boiler Inspection Bill. Woolford, the groom at the Auburn hotel, has made a written statement to the effeot that, on the night of the murder, he met Dfgby Grand and another man named Jones, when they arranged to rob the hotel. He refused to take any active part but Avatched outside. He saw Constable Long enter and heard a shot fired. Grand and Jones then rushed out and escaped in a sulky they had waiting. The Rifle Association has started a movement to raise funds to assist in sending an Australian team to Bisley this year. MELBOURNE, Jan. 30. The Age, dealing with the effect of the income tax on tbe investment of foreign capital in Victoria, estimates that during the last seven years ifc has resulted in the withdrawal of nine millions of capital. HOBART, Jan. 30. The Premier has issued a manifesto. With a view to extinguishing the deficit he proposes further reduction in State expenditure, reduction in the number of members, limitation of loans to reproductive works, and amalgamation of public bodies.