AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

| » SCENES IN A COURT. WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. (Per Press Association.) Melbourne, November 23. The Government intends to bear half the expense of the extradition of Baker, the ser«eant-major of the Permanent forces, who lied by a recent German mail steamer, and against whom there are charges of forgery and false pretences, involving a sum of .£15,000. The Legislative Assembly has passed the Bill for the abolition of plural voting, and also the Women's Franchise Bill, through all their stages. In the District Court Mr Lonnor made further reference to his charges regarding the administration of justice, and complained of the way in which the matter was allowed to drag, thus interfering with justice. One of his principal witnesses, he alleged, had, previous to the charges, been assisted to leave the colony. Mr Nicholson, the presiding Magistrate, unsuccessfully tried lo stop Mr Lormer, and then adjourned the Court. Mr Lormer said he would refer to the matter again. This Day. The Women's Charitable Temperance Convention has adopted resolutions of a widespread character dealing with the drink traffic, sale of tobacco, and injurious effects of the sex novel. The convention urges popularising the use of pure water in preferense to so-called temperance beverages, and makes a strenuous protest against the proposal to enforce the contagious disease act, and decided to forward a protest on the subject to the Medical Congress which meets in New Zealand next year. «ydnky, This Day. Sweetman, implicated in the Mount Rennie case was released after serving nine out of fourteen years. The long spell of dry weather ended yesterday by a terriffic thunderstorm over the greater part of the Colony. One to eight inches of rain fell, railway lines were washed away in a number of places. The Government first estimated to receive L 508,000 from the land and income taxes ; but as the result of a coi_pvomise, and a reduction of exemptions, now expect L 600,000.