COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 May 1901, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT

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Melbourne, May 30,

Tho debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued in the House. Mr Paterson (Queensland) said he was anxious for the gradual abolition of coloured labour, but it was un-British to annihilate it instantly and ho hoped no action would bo taken till a Royal Commission had inquired into tho subject. In the Senate Senator Dawson (Queensland), said the presence of Kanakas in Queensland was not a pressing trouble. Ho did not want to ruin the sugar Industry .by sweeping away its mainstay without timely warning. They should first stop the influx of aliens then oust those already in the States. Received this day, at 10 JO a m. Melbourne, May 31.

In the House, Solomon of South Australia, said that State could not afford to stand the loss of administration of the northern territory ; either the Federal Parliament must reimburse or the Imperial Government take oyer the Trans-Continental Kailway, which will not pay the cost of greasing the wheels. It was absurd to construct it at a cost of five millioli over such a barren country. In the senate, Glasscy of Queensland said that there was nothing in the cry that white labour could not engage in the sugar cultivation. During the last ten years the mortality amongst the Kanakas in Queensland was alarming, over fortytwo per thousand. I fit would not be fair to any party, destroying sugar industry, and sweeping away the Kanaka without due warning.

Dairymen’s Trouble. Christchurch, This Day. The Premier told a deputation of dairymen that the question of appeal from the decision of inspector will he referred to the Minister of Agriculture; also that dairy companies will be brought under the regulation when competing with individual dairymen. Magnetic Observatory. Seddon informed the Hon, Bowen that a magnetic observatory will be established in Christchurch in time to be useful for the Antarctic expedition. Drowned. Auckland, This Day. The infant daughter of E. L. Fraser of Coromandel, was drowned in the creek. Supreme Court Sittings. Wellington, This Day. John McCuskey was sentenced to three years imprisonment for indecent assault;. Dunedin, May 33, ' At the Supremo Court the charge of sheep stealing agniust Perry resulted in an acquittal. The re-trial of the Hampden incest case was commenced but not concluded. Killed by a Fall of Coal. "Westport, This Day. William Hendy was killed at Dennis* ton coal mine, by a fall of coal. Medical Congress. Auckland, May 30. Dr. T. Hope Lewis, of Auckland, has been appointed a Vice-President of the section of surgery at the forthcoming International Medical Congress to be held at Hobart in February 1902. Unimproved Values. Christchurch, May 38. The ratepayers’ poll in Linwood Borough to-day on rating on unimproved values resulted ;—for proposal, 276 ; against, 38 ; majority, 208. Fatal Mishap. Christchurch, May 31. A man named John Morton sustained a fracture of the skull yesterday whilst taking a heavy hath off a lorry. Ho died in the Hospital, -i > :