AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

onH*d Pr«s Anoci&tion—Per EHetrie Telegraph—Copyright. ; DEFENCES OF AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, September 29. "i The Governor-General, in a speech at a military. dinner, said that should Britain be involved in" war' her responsibilities woiild be" enormous and her powers' great. As "we.-were not. absolutely illimitable, therefore it was. necessary, that Australia should" enough to protect herself. ,In order to do'that she needed to develop and increase her able-bodied population. "From a military point of view, so long as as at present and the revenue of tile country remained what it was, it would *be simply impossible to spend more than a certain proportion upon military and naval defence. That proportion could not be very large. LAND AND INCOME TAX. " The Treasurer submitted his land and income " tax proposals:' Incofnes over £4OO, from personal'exertion, will pay 4id in the. £ up to £BOO, and 7d over that sum, and" incomes from property '9d and 13id. The extra land taxation is id over £SOOO to £10,000; Id to £15,000, rising to 3d over' £IOO,OOO. CHOLEBA AT MANILA. SYDNEY, September 29. News from Manila states that cholera is spreading. and the mortality is forty to fifty daily. - Many Europeans are victims. A number of the crew of the interned Russian warehip's have been at- - ."- PREFERENTIAL TRADE: . MELBOURNE, September 29. Mr" Deakin has received communications from the* Governor-General of Canada, asking, on behalf of his Government, that preferential trade relations be established between Australia and Canada, and whether the Commonwealth is prepared- to offer tariff concessions to Canada or whether it prefers to make the subject one o! consideration by a conference of-'delegate's representing "Australia and Canada. .