AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1692, 23 July 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

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[retjteb’s telegrams.] SYDNEY, July 23. PARLIjS MENTARY. Too Hon. Joseph Docker’s resolutions, vindicating tlio action of the Council, were carried. MELBOURNE, July 23. The soft goods firms of Sargood, Son> and Co., and Martin, Bn 11 er, and Nichol’ have boon amalgamated. Arrived—Riugarooma, from Bluff. THE REFORM BILL. In the Assembly last night the Reform Bill was strenuously opposed by Sir John O’Shaughnassy and Mr James Service. The Attorney-General hinted at an early dissolution. SYDNEY, July 22. Parliament was prorogued on Thursday. The steamer Tambarosa, from Sydney to Rockhampton, stranded near Capo Capricorn. It is in a dangerous situation. The crew are safe. MELBOURNE, July 22. Mr Berry, in introducing tho Reform Bill, rocapltidatod tho history of the former Bill, which had been rosultloss owing to the Council’s action. Ho dwelt on his labors in Loudon, and affirmed that Sir M, Hicks-Boach's despatch cs-

tablished :—lst, The analogy between the House of Commons and the Assembly. 2nd, That the pretensions of the Council had been the cause of all die dead-locks. 3rd, Tho means of finality in legislation. 4 th, It recognised tho necessity of deferring to the will of the people. Mr Berry referred to tho difficulties in New South Wales, South Australia, and New Zealand, whore trouble was looming in tho distance. The Bifi proposes that the Assembly bo invested with full powers of expenditure, and that taxation Bills passed twice by the Assembly, and twice rejected by tho Council shall bo referred to a plobescite by tho Governor. Tho Council to become nominee, and expiring members shall bo replaced as they retire by nominees whoso qualification shall bo ten years’ residence, abolishing tho property qualification. MELBOURNE, July 22.

Weiberg was acquitted on tho chargo of theft, hut convicted of receiving tho stolen money. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Pearso was sentenced to ono year. Cablegrams to go by steamer from Darwin should bo despatched on Thursday. [Via Wellington ] SYDNEY, July 17, A woman’s remains have been found near Tarenta. She is supposed to have been murdered by Peter Muidocb, who was recently hung for the murder of Thomas Ford. She was dressed in man’s clothes, and it is thought she was trying to escape from Murdoch, with whom she he I lived. A Bill has been introduced into the’Queensland Legislature d : sfrancb ; eing civil servants. Melbourne advices from Mauritius state that the colony wifi be represented at the Melbourne exhibition. A now paper, callei “The Schoolmaster,” devoted to teaching subjects, has been started. A first call on the shareholders in the Australian and European B ni, has be n well responded to ; £2S,OCD has been received. The impostor, Soholoss, who represented himself as being an American detective, has been sentenced to five years for forgei/ and uttering. The coffee house movement is extending in the suburbs. Swiveller and Diomed are scratched for the Cup, A telegram from Aden states that epiggottcy is spreading among t the cattle at the Mauritius, and that d-aught animals are much wanted there. Mauritius intelligence to the 3rd June states that the sugar crop h exhausted, and that cane crushing is expected to begin in August, and the new augers wifi be in the market a month later.