AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 190, 13 December 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN N.S W. (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, December 12. The Opposition are holding a public meet i us this evening to consider Iho action of the Government. The procredings, which are rather noisj, wore not concluded when the telegraph office closed. This Day. ; After a turbulent meeting last night, a resolution was passed calling on Parliament to vindicate its power ol ascendancy by a prompt and sweeping condemnation of the unlawful and desperate proceedings of Sir G, Pibbs' Government. Mr G. H. Reid, leader of the Opposition, who was the principal speaker, characterised the Ministry as a nest of political trickist*, who had prostituted the provision of an Act of Parliament to rob the people of their rights. Another resolution, characterising the action of Sir G. Dibbs as a blessing because it prevents the passage of the Bank Notes Issue Bill, was pro posed and declared by the Chairman to be carried. Melborne, This Day, Mr Purues, E C, has commenced his address for the defence in libel action Speight v. the Age. Owing to the falling revenue, Jollowing on the bank failures, the reconstruction scheme of the Melbourne Permanent Building Society, agreed to in March last, has been found to be impracticable. It was announced that Johnston, the late manager, misappropriated something like £12,000, of wbioh £5800 were advanced by means of fictitious loans, and over £6000 advanced to persons believed to have been his nominees. — ""--. Adeijlipb, This Day. The Legislative Assembly has passed through all its stages a bill doubling the Income Tax for one year as an emergency tax rendered necessary by the rejeotion of the Taxation Bill. The Labor Party opposed the measure, urping the Government to hold a special session after the Christmas holidays to repass the original bill. *