AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 72, 19 September 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

FEMALE FRANCHISE. ALLEGED ILLEGAL SUSPENSION. A COUNTRY FLOODED. A MINER MURDERED AT COOLGARDIE. A STRANGE STATEMENT. CPEB PBKSS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, September 18. The Assembly is discussing a motion in favor of female franchise. So far th« speakers have been favorable to the proposal, but no leading man has yet spoken. This Day. The country between Old Moamoa and Batnah, for a distance of thirteen miles, haß the appearance of a vast sea, owing to the flooding of the Murray river. The Cabinet has invited the colonies to combine in conveying their thanks to France for assistance in saving H.M.S. Ringarooma. Replies havo already been ' received from New Zealand and South Australia agreeing with the idea. Brisbane, September 18 The members who were suspended hist week for defying the chair have 1 written to the Speaker claiming the right to take their seats, having been 1 advised that the suspension was illegal. ' They informed the Speaker they would obey any authorised official deputed to 1 resist their entrance, tins step being in- ' tended as a preliminary to testing the matter in a Supreme Court. The Speaker replied he could not allow them to take their seats without instructions from the House. Mklbotthne, September 18. A sensational affidavit has been sworn by a laborer named McMahon. He states that a well-known member of Parliament asked him to sign a paper which he afterwards discovered was a transfer of 36,800 shares in the Australian City and Suburban Investment Banking Company, now in liquidation. McMahon now finds himself liable for JMO.OOO, and seeks to have his name ' removed from the list of contributors. Pbrth, This Day. • The Premier has replied that owing to the pressure of local matters Parliament • v/ill be unable to discuss federation at ! present. A miner was found brutally murdered i near Coolgardie. A pick was driven > clean through the skull.