AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

ELECTORAL REFORMS. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. THE RECENT GOLD FINDS. 1000 YARDS OF GOLD. PEOPLE ON HULL ISLAND. (PES PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Bhiiuane. August 9 The Electoral Amendment Bill, introduced by Mr Glassey, provides that the only qualification required shall be residence, every adult, male and female, to have one vote, all elections to be held on otic day, and all hotels to be closed. It aluo provides that the elector of any constituency shall have power, by a two-thirds majority of the vote, to recall their own member. This Day. A committee of the Legislative Assembly has passed a motion to increase the Parliamentary honorarium from £150 to £200 All thu labour members supported the increase. Perth, This Day The now gold reef discovered by Dunn Bro?,, runs on the surface for 1000 yards, showing gold everywhere. Albany, This Day. Arrived — Heinalaya from London. Passengers for New Zealand — Mrs Penwick, Hon. J. B. Whyte, Messrs Merritt and family, Turall, Henderson and Pharazyn. Adelaide, This Day. The Budget shows a surplus of £1100. Estimated revenue for current year is £2,500,000 and expenditure £2,552,000 Estimated revenue includes additional land and income tax and customs duty on beer, wines, and spirits. The estimate is baned on a report that the farmers bold 100,000 tons of breadstuffs and the expect ancy of a six bushel harvest Sydney, Anaust 9 The Warrimoo, from Vancouver, reports that while passing Hull Island, in the Phoenix Group, which is supposed to be uninhabited, twenty or thirty persons were seen on the beach but as they made no signals a boat was not sent off.