AUSTRALIA.
[eeuteb’s teleoeams.l MELBOURNE, March 24. Punctiliousness-
The Legislative Council to-night passed a resolution declining to receive the Reform Bill from the Assembly for consideration, on tbe grounds that the qnea. tion had already been dealt with during the present session, and, moreover, because the House was of opinion that such measure should have been initiated in the Council, and not in the Assembly. MELBOURNE, March 25. Meeting to PartThe Legislative Assembly, at rising last night, adjourned until Wednesday next. The Council’s High-handed Action. The “Age” to-day, in a leading article, comments in angry terms npon tbe action of the Legislative Council in declining to consider the Reform Bill. The “ Argus also diapprovos of the shelving of the Reform question, and says that the country expects that the same should be decided on its merits.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2209, 25 March 1881, Page 2
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