AUSTRALIA.

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AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, July 5. Shipping-. Sailed, this afternoon, Arawata, for the Bluff. Sound Decision'll is now definitely known that the Governor has refused the advice of the Ministry that Parliament should be dissolved in the present crisis. Royalty Again, j The Royal Princes visited Sandhurst | to-day, and were accorded a splendid public reception.

SYDNEY, July 5. Opening of Parliament. Parliament was opened to-day by his Excellency Lord Augustus Loftns. In his address the Governor announced that during tho session the following measures would he brought in :—A Bill for the Regulation of Chinese Immigration, a Legislative Bill, Licensing and Municipal Bills, together with others for tho amendment of various Acts now in force in the colony. HOB ART, July 5. The Intercolonial Conference The “ Hobart Town Mercury ” publishes in to-day’s issue a circular despatch by the Right Hon. Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to her Majesty’s representatives in Australasia, relating to a series of resolutions passed by tho members of the Intercolonial Conference hold at Sydney in January last. With regard to the resolution concerning the functions of tho High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Earl Kimberley states that while fully appreciating tho high ability and earnestness displayed by Sir Arthur Gordon in maintaining Imperial jurisdiction in tho Pacific during his term of office, tho British Government, nevertheless, aro sensible of tho groat importance of tho points raised by the Conference, and will take them into serious consideration at an early date. His Lordship adds that the Admiralty has already been communicated with upon the subject.