AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2264, 5 July 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Br Tblbgeaph.] [Per b.s. Bingarooma, at the Bluff.] MELBOURNE, June 29. The want of confidence debate in the Assembly commenced on the 23rd, before a full house. Sir B. O'Loghlen, in submitting the motion, alluded to the vacillating time* serving policy followed by the Government, insisting that the change of a few votes forced. the Government to abandon their intention to shelve the Bef orm question. He referred also to departmental mismanagement, alleging that terrorism reigns in all the offices, and finallycalled upon the House to punish the Ministry. Mr Graves seconded the motion, after which the first Ministerial speech waa made by Mr Hunt, who denied Sir B. O'Loghlen's charges against the departments;, and threw part of the responsibility regarding Beform upon tbe shoulders of the party. Major Smith, replying to Sir B. O'Loghlen, retorted with charges of incompetence and extravagance against the AttorneyGeneral, and also sharply attacked the Corner Party. Mr Francis, the next Opposition speaker, said he felt bound to affirm that the present Government was undeserving of the confidence of Parliament. He said that their economical changes were not honest, and urged that the defeated Government should yield. Mr Vale followed, and said that it was a mean thing now to endeavor to oust the Ministry after pushing through the work of the House. During the debate the Government speakers made capital of the Catholic question, leading to a slight interchange between Major Smith and Sir J. O 'Shanassy. Mr Francis denied any sectarian bias on the education question, and was agreeable that an impartial Boyal Commission should thoroughly inquire into the working of the Act. Mr Tucker confessed that he had a grievance against the Government, still he decided not to vote to turn them out. He objected to being branded as a traitor for voting independently, as he did. A scene occurred on the East Melbourne Cricket ground on the twenty-fifth, when * football match was announced between the Hotham and South Melbourne clubs. The latter at the last moment refused to play because the Ho than members included in the team a youth named Barnes, recently oonvicted nf iodeoenoy. About four thousand people then claimed to have their money returned. This became impossible, and the treasurer, who received rough jostling, now offers to hand the money to the Melbourne charities. SYDNEY, June 29. Lieutenant King of the sohooner Benaud reports that steps are being taken to punish the murderers of Lieutenant Bower and the boat's crew of the Sandfly. There has been no bloodshed as yet, but the Florida chief* are in a great fright and are endeavoring toC'ltch the murderers. Bishop Selwyn has been of great service in bringing the islander* to justice. The steamer Argyle struck the rocks in Clarence river on the 25th and made a hole in her bottom. She was run ashore, but slipped off the sand and sank in deep water with a cargo of maize. The crew and passenger* were landed safely. The Marine Board found Captain Bach of the Queen of Nations, guilty of carelessness and drunkenness, and suspended his certificate for twelve months.