AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1681, 10 July 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

CABLE NEWS. I

[eeutek’s telegrams.] SYDNEY, July 9. The Premier tabled a series of resolutions against the Council’s repeated rejection of tbe Assembly’s carefully considered measures recommending the introduction of a Bill to make the Council responsible to tbe people. The Treasurer submitted a proposal for a further lean of £7,787,708 for railways, water supply, and sewerage, the loan not to be placed on tbe market for some time. MELBOURNE, July 9. Weiberg is committed for trial. [Via Hokitika.l MELBOURNE (Undated.) Mr Berry made hie first public utterance on Tuesday nigtt at a banquet givtn to him by the Reform League, which was attended by 400 persons. Mr Berry, replying to the toast “Our Guests”' spokeof the past, but gave no indication of the future. Ho interpreted , the Secretary of State’s despatches a? a victory for the Liberal party, which be said had the support of all parties in England. Ho called upon the Liberal party to stand together and not allow any local jealousies to part them until the battle had been fought out. Tbe watchword, he said, must be substantial constitutional reforms. The chairman, in proposing Sir Bryan O’Loghhu s health, commended him for the numerous sacrifices ho had made iu the interest of the people. . . The Reform League have been sitting in conference and arranging a political plaliorm. They have agreed to the “planks” of Constitutional reform, a progressive land tax, and.

alio securing the power of the puree to the Assembly. I'ho tanners in all part* of the colony are forming unions for the protection of their own interests. They hare their political programme which includes protection of everything relating to agriculture and assisted immigration. They have also resolved not to support any candidates at elections who are not thoroughly identified with the farming interest.