The sensational raids made by the taxation officials upon numerous members of the Abraham family a few months ago again has received prominence, this time in.the Hous of Representatives. In reply to Me, G, Francis, the Attorney-General, Mr. Latham, stated that the amount Involved totalled £500,000 and of sum bonds to the value of £200,000 already had been handed over as payment, while securities for the mount of £300,000 and 10,000, Crown Solicitor's costs, were forthcoming. The case would not go to court, In this matter a number of people are involved, but the greater part of the money will be forthcoming from the companies, the members of whom all are closely related. The case caused the biggest stir yet known in this country and the severe lesson which has befallen the delinquents should be sufficient for any other person who feels inclined to play the same tricks.
That Commercial Necessity—Oil A severe jolt has been delivered to those possi ists who so frequent-Ty in the past have declared that oil was unobtainable in Australia.
Tt is perhaps a little too soon boast that we possess it in large and payable quantities, but those who have had faith in Queenslar land the district of which Roma the centre have every likelihood of secing their dreams becomes realities. The history of the boring dates back to the long and torture fous drought of the nineties, when, water, not oil, was the aim' of the drillers. Water was found and thousands of sheep were saved. "Then, during the few years before the outbreak of the war, a large artesian bore caught fire and a huge candle-cap arrangement was maififactured with which to snuff out the
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