AUSTRALIAN.
[eeutee’s telegrams.] SYDNEY, May 21. Mobbing at NewcastleDisturbances are reported from tbe Newcastle district, owing to the strike. Two hundred women and crowds of children mobbed tome of the laborers at the Australian Agricultural Company’s mine. The police were powerless to suppress the outbreaks. Nobody was seriously injured during the disturbance. A repetition of the mobbing is threatened. Electoral Bill. A clause has been introduced in the Electoral Bill now before the Assembly, which requires candidates for election to deposit £4O. MELBOURNE, May 21. The Reform Bill . Mr Service’s Reform Bill was read a first time in the Assembly last night without division. The debate on the second reading will commence on Tuesday. May 20. The Reform Bill. The Hon. Mr Service, the Premier, in introducing his Bill for the reform of the Constitution, entered into an exhaustive history of colonial reforms. He spoke on the extension of the franchise for the Council to £lO. Finality has been ensured by the double dissolution, and in case of disagreement after the elections, the Houses are to sit and vote together. He expressed his approval of the sixtieth clause of the Constitution Act being excluded. His speech made a most favorable impression.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1947, 21 May 1880, Page 2
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