AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1401, 10 December 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(REUTEB’s TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.) ThelLock Out. Yesterday, t The lock-out in the boot trade continues, and the breach between the | master bootmakers and operators is , widening. Shipping. Sailed, this morning—Waihora, for the Bluff. Smallpox. No fresh cases of smallpox occurred here during the last three weeks, and the patients at the Hospital are now convalescent. Sydney, Yesterday. Additional cases of smallpox have occurred here. An Appeal Case. In th e Banco Court to-day judgment in favor of plaintiff was delivered in the appeal case of A: G. Taylor, the member for Mudgee, v Hon Edmund Barton, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Bench he’d that the Assembly had no power either to adopt from the Imperial Parliament, or to pass on its own account, any standing orders giving itself authority to punish any obstructing member, or remove him for any period longer than the sitting during which the obstruction occurs. / [Received December 10, 12 50 p, m.] Parliamentary. * Melbourne, To-day. The Legislative Assembly declining c to accept the Legislative Council’s t amendments in the Railway Bill, has j abandoned the measure, and, adopting c the English precedent, a new Bill has t been introduced embodying the Coun- d cil’s amendments, in order to avert a * crisis.