Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 95, 27 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

*,— _— v. X* *##«<? -•": k^** : ■ ... Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.25-a.m.> i . - Melbourne, August 27. It is believed that during "the week efforts • will be made *to effect a Reconstruction of the State Cabinet, with the object of forming a composite Administration.!'*■ Adelaide, August 27. l The Premier announced that a Commonwealth agreement for the joint collecting%f income tax,was not acceptable, especially the • request that the State take over the whole of the Commonwealth officers engaged in taxation work, with pro rata, dismissals in the event of-re-... rtrenchment.' The Premier, added Jiat the : , Commonwealth, has... ;>JL76, officers In South Australia.'.'dealing, with. 45,00 ft taxpayers, while the; State has fifty-two, for 55.0Q0. ■;. .. ;i;i ~,', ..Sydney; August-27. Although Sir George Fuller,'announced that the Government would refuse to. grant a new enquiry! in regard to the wheat compensation 'claims, it is believed in authoritative quarters that an agreement has 'been reached between Sir George Fuller 5 and Mr Bruxner, on abasis of a special enquiry into • the pbints raised by the Country Party.The Science delegates 1 undertook,' pleasure and study excursions durinig the' week-end. ; v " '/ Professor MacMillan Brown deliv-' ;ered a lecture on Easter Island. Melbourne;- August 27. The House of Representatives decided to purchase paintings of Australian birds and flowers, for £5000,. A representative of the "late Mrs Rowan Is asking £IO,OOO. , ' Angus Murray,- sentenced in. 1917. ,In connection with the Albert Park ,Bank robbery, escaped:; from Gee-.. long gaol. Using a small saw, he stone from a window and, squeezed through. He made a rope from his bed clothes and scaled. s the walls, and got away in a waiting motor car. ( The Federal Sessions has closed, after a sitting Friday night till late on Saturday evening. . Various..-..8i11s ...were rushed through. ..A deadlock arose over the Senate favouring the erection of a permanent nucleus of the permanent parliamentary building at Canberra, (! )instead of the provisional , building favoured by the House Qf The latter, declined to accept the amendment, and the Senate gave way. ill -i Parliament has adjourned till early next year. r , •' Adelaide, August 27. Mrs Connolly, wife of a railway employee, in a fit of dementia, drowned' .her two young children. She informed her 14 husband that the water- -was not deep enough to drown herself. -~— - - i g- -.. ggganag