AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2890, 15 December 1898, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

United Press By Electric Telegraph— Oopyrihgt. Received December 14th, 9.35 a.m. FEDERATION. Melbourne,- December 14. Sir George Turner, in the Legislative Assembly, said that the next step towards federation was to cajl a Conference of Premiers to consider the New South Wales amendments, and any others the various colonies may make. While prepared to go a certain distance, he was not prepared to take federation '• at any price." Sydney, December 141 The Legislative Council passed the Federal resolutions without further amendment. Mr Reid states that he will lose no time in communicating with the other colonies in reference to the conference. AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING. The Legislative Assembly had an allni^ht sitting on the Early Closing Biil, which is still (7.30 a.m.) under discussion. THE DUKE OF LEEDS. Writing shortly before the resignation of Lord Hampden, the London correspondent of the Daily Telegraph announced that the Duke of Leeds had been offered th£ first vacant Australian Governorship. Received December 14th, 9.35 a.m. THE CYANICE PATENT. i The hearing of the "application of the Australian Gold-recovery Company, to amend the cyanide patent, has commenced before the JOxam,iner of Patents. The application is opposed by the Crown and a large number of representatives of gold-mining companies. '.The case is likely to be protracted. INCOME TAX. The full Court has decided that the Broken Hill Proprietary andl Block £0 Companies are not subject (to income tax in this colony. The companies contended that the whole of their income was derivable from ores treated at Port Pirie. The Government intend to introduce a Bill to prevent large societies like the Australian Mutual Provident and Broken Hill Company escaping land and income taxation. YACHTING. Mr Hordern is a passenger by the Moljoia to Auckland. He takes the one

rater Bronzewing to compete at Auck land regatta on the 26 tb. B Received December 15th, 0.55 a.m. A TRAGEDY. A tragedy happened to-day at Peter sham. A man named Priggs, 30 yean i of age, shot his fiancee, of the name o I Jupp, and her grandmother, of the nam< of Miller, dead. The man was arrested i No details of the tragedy are available. ' AN UNLUCKY SHIP. The ship Republic, which twice re i turned to port leaking, was about to pui L to sea again when the pilot founc a state of unpreparedness aboard. H< 1 reported to the Marine Board, and th< > water police went aboard and found thai • the men had refused to go to sea in th« • vessel. Captain Moore drew a revolvei and fired, shooting a member of th< crew in the leg. The wound is not seri ous. Captain Moore was arrested. ' THE PROBATE BILL. ' The Legislative Council rejected the Probate Bill by a large majority.