GENERAL SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2991, 26 January 1881, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Sxdney, January 20. In the Assembly a supply bill for one month has been introduced, and a long debate took place on the proposal to include in the bill the £16,500 awarded by the arbitrators in the case of the Milbourn Creek Copper Company, but it was subsequently withdrawn. The item immigration was allowed to pass upon a pledge from the Treasurer that no money will be expended until the committee had an opportunity of discussing the whole question on its merits when the estimates were under consideration. A dinner was given by the Chamber of Commerce to the delegates of the Conference yesterday. Mr Watt in the chair. Mr Berry in his speech stated, speaking of Victoria and the colonies, that if they claim her as a sister they must treat her so, and must realise and recognise what her circumstences in the future would be, and deal with her the same as they would expect Victoria to exhibit towards them. Ask yourselves what other future is in store for Victoria than of becoming the manufacturing centre of the colonies. Why not Victoria manufacture goods and meet requirements the same as Manchester, Liverpool, and Yorkshire ? _ If they do that, why should we not receive in the same spirit all the products which the soil and climo.te of the other colonies produco in abundance, for which Victoria would be an excellent market. If before he died the Australian colonies might become a federated body, humiliating none and benefitting all, nothing would enable him to go with greater resignation than the accomplishment of that object. Mr Dick mentioned that it had been suggested that an alliance of the colonies might now be formed. He might point out to them that in New Zealand there wero once separate provinces, which were now united. He had no doubt the same might take place in all the Australian colonies. Mr Parker's speech was not particularly significant.

Victoria. Messrs Walsh, Coppin, and Gauson, are the only candidates for East Melbourne. At a meeting of Irishmen held on Tuesday to sympathise with Mr Parnell and the Leaguers, Mr Longmore presided, and complained that Irishmen never got anything but bayonets from England when asked to redress her wrongs, and that the existing land laws made tyrants of the landlords. He pointed out that the destruction of the landlords was telegraphed throughout the world, while the sacrifice of tho whole family received no notice. A subscription was started.

Newcastle. A further batch of New Zealand immigrants arrived by the Sophia Lutus from Wellington. Dissatisfaction exists among the miners with the reported delegate meeting to be held on Saturday to discuss matters connected with the present state of the coal trade. The slate miners have sont a notice of motion to the district asking for an aggregate meeting of all the lodges to discuss the same subject. Temora. At a meeting of the Parnell Defence Committee on Monday, it was decided to send a cablegram to Dublin on Tuesday remitting the sum of £200. A boat containing a number of men from the wreck of the Hereford capsized in the surf. Two constables were carried out to sea and drowned, and the others reached the shore with difficulty. The foreign commissioners are to be asked to consent to keep the Exhibition open until the 30th April, instead of the 31st March, Hart has been remanded from Echuea to Sandhurst. West Attstbalia. The Legislative has been prorogued till April. The Governor has appointed a commission to report on the departmental expenditure. QUEENSLAND. All the Settlers have left tho M'lvor and Coen country in consequence of the outrages of the blacks. Telegrams from Blackall state that it is understood that Skuthorpe made an appointment with the magistrate to show Leichardt's relics as a guarantee of his statement, but the interview did not take place. The reason alleged was that the Government telegraphed him not to show the relics even to the magistrate.