MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7680, 12 July 1893, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

[united press association.] London, July 10. Lord Braesey ia calling attention to the dangers of big ironclads in the Navy, and wishes the construction of more torpedo rams of the type of the Polyphemus, one of the vessels of the Mediterranean squadron. Bomb, July 10< The Italian Press generally referß in favor* able terms to the Bank Bill, bat at the same time expresses many misgivings as to its passing into law. Constantinople, July 10. The Sultan has made a present to two ot the Armenian professorß who were recently pardoned in connection with the reoent troubles at Angora, in Armenia. Melboubne, July 11. Odgers, c&Bhier of the Land Mortgage and Finance Company, has been arrested on ft charge of embezzlement. Hia defalcations exoeed £2000. The Government will shortly submit to the House a Bill for the imposition of an in* oome tax. It will provide for a minimum ot 3d in the pound and a maximam of 8d being oharged on incomes derived from personal exertions, exceptions being made in the case of incomes under £200. A tax of a shilling in the pound will be imposed on inoomea , reoeived from investments. It- is estimated that this tax will yield £300,000 per annum, thus obviating the aeoessU.v for the imposition of a land tax on unimproved values, or a Btnall duty on goods now admitted free into the Colony, Bhibbanb, July 11. Mr Wrapga predicts tbat heavy weather between norih-wast and south is sale to ba * met wiih between Tasmania and the Bluff during the next few days. Bxdnb*, Jnly 11. Ibe sobooner, Postboy, which left Dunediu on June 9, for Adelaide, has put ia here short i of provisions. She encountered heavy wefrAfasj; vtoleorQaßiogTasmiaSsa,.