AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1427, 11 September 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[BEUTEE'S TELEGRAMS TO THE PBESBf AGENCY.] Sydney, September 10. Parliament opened to-day. The Governor's speech announces that the Government decided to postpone the issue of the million and a half loan on the London market, owing to the depressed state of the money market. Many useful measures are promised, including Land Amendment and Electoral Laws and Consolidation of Public Debt Bills. Proposals for railway construction, embracing a thousand miles of new lines, will also be submitted to Parliament.

The address in reply in the Assembly was carried without a division. The Queensland Parliament has prorogued till October 3rd.

Adelaide, September 10. A meeting of the National Marine Insurance Company resolved en winding up.

[Per Hero, via Auckland.] Melbourne, September 4. Dr. R3 r an, of Plevna renown, has beer entertained at a dinner. Sir James McCulloch has requested fJe Government to remove his name from -ha list of exhibition commissioners. In the JJudgot debate Mr Francis ob*cted

to the proposed loan in the present depressed etate of the country. The Commissioner of Public Works asserted that the colony would be justified in borrowing forty millions, if such were necessary. He defended the dismissal of the civil servants, and said the colony was never more prosperous than now. The Council agreed that the scheme dividing the colony into twelve provinces, with forty-two members, should be considered in committee.

The Bill giving 'the Council power to deal with money bills passed committee. Probably only five millions of the nine million loan will be borrowed immediately.

In the Budget debate, Mr Service showed that, notwithstanding tho boasted retrenchment, expenditure had increased by £227,000. Replying to a deputation of the lately unemployed, who waited on hira to thank the Government, the Commissioner of Works said that many people closed their purses during the late crisis to Bhake the Government, but failed. In view of the late triumphant passage of the Keform Bill, he believed the Council would accept their defeat. The loan would give an impetus to the colony by promoting public works. The decreased gold yield had been more than recouped by the advances in manufactures and agriculture. An illuminated address to Earl Beaconsfield, bound in morocco, goes Home by the mail. A meeting of the New Guinea Colonists' Association League resolved that further agitation was necessary to secure the annexation to Victoria. Hopes are entertained of better prospects when a bottom is reached. The members of the expedition are recovering health.

Sydney, September 4. Proposals to join Victoria in a subsidy to a Cape line of steamers were talked over in the Cabinet, but no definite decision was arrived at. The Eev. Spurgeon, son of the celebrated preacher, has been summoned to .England, owing to the illness of bis mother, he cannot, therefore, visit New Zealand. New Caledonian advices report that about 150 insurgents have been killed. The friendly tribes are in a state of disquiet. Fears are entertained for the friendly chiefs. Regene, who has rendered good Bervice, disappeared for Beveral days. The war will cost an immense amount of money. The frontier has been surrounded with block-houses. Adelaide, September 4. Mr Boucaut's proposition for an|income-tax was negatived by a majority of three. The Babbit Bill passed. The eight hours' demonstration was successful. 2000 people took part. Queensland, September 4. Lateßt advices from Port Moresby, New Guinea, report that prospectors are out trying new country. The rivers are falling. A number of people are ready to start to New Guinea at their own expense, provided the Dutch Government permit settlement and England will annex part of the island.

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [per press agency] Auckland, September 10. The Halcione has arrived with the second batch of Katikati settlers, after an uneventful passage of 102 days. A Catholic petition in favor of denominational education received 740 signatures of persons over fourteen years old. Wellington, September 10. Mr H. Ch Masters, who for upwards of twenty years was employed in the Crown Lands office, died suddenly this morning. Dttnedin, September 10. At a meeting of the Council this afternoon the Mayor said :—" I would like to take this opportunity of alluding to the uncalled for and unjust remarks which were made by the 'Daily Times' on Monday with reference to my conduct in the capacity in which I acted at the banquet. I may state, in reference to the insinuations, that I did not know how to condnct myself and had no sense of the fitDess of things, that I pass them by for what they are worth. But when the ' Daily Times accuses me of having attempted to insult our Northern visitors by referring to the claims of Sir Julius Vogel to the gratitude of the people of this colony. I utterly repudiate any such intention. The object I had in proposing the toast was to give the people of New Zealand an opportunity of expressing their appreciation of the services he had rendered to the colony—not so much as a politician but as a patriot. I think the remarks of the ' Daily Times' in reference to this particular toast unfair and unjust. So far as I am concerned, I made no attempt whatever to offer the slightest disrespect to the members of the present Government, or to any individual present." Several members of Council concurred in his Worship's remarks. The girl HamiLon is better to-day, and will Srobably recover. The publication of the epositions shows there was no ground for the supposition that she had been starved. The Corporation solicitors have advised that the nomination of councillors for the city is legal, notwithstanding that it was supposed that the necessary notice had not been given. The City Council to-day voted the Mayor £3OO in addition to his salary, in consequence of the unforseen expense which he has had to incur, re opening the railway line.

[l-EOM THE CORRESPONDENT OP THE PRESS.] Dunedin, September 10. The first hunting meeting in Otago took place at Sea "View, near Forbury, to-day, and IB due to the fact of the Canterbury hounds having been brought down by rail. About 500 people, including many ladies, were pre■ent. There were two capital runs, and a good day's sport. Reporting on Mr T. C. Burt's process for treating the city sewage, the City Surveyor wrote : The night soil waa separated from the sewage water, and rendered nearly, if not quite, inodorous directly the water had been drawn off. After a short exposure jto the air this same residuum was wholly (as far as I could determine) deprived of any offensive smell. This part of the process I judge to be the most successful. The cleansing of the water, so far as its appearance was concerned, did not come up to my expectations. I think that sufficient time is not allowed for the operation of the chemicals, iamples that I have kept for two or three days becoming quite clear, which after two or three hours' subsidence, were still thick and discolored. The water is in a measure clarified, and almost all obnoxious smell destroyed. Only chemical analysis can Guarantee that it has been chemically cleaned, ut the mechanical cleaning observable to the eye, either demands more trial or different treatment." The girl Hamilton is much better to-day. The poliee are much blamed for withholding the depositions from the Press, and preventing a denial being immediately given to the absurd reports abroad concerning Mrs Owen's conduct. Mr Finn having withdrawn his action against Warden Stratford, the inquiry into his conduct is to be gone on with at once. Mr Proudfoot has obtained permission to lay tram rails down on more otreets.