CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 94, 25 July 1879, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

♦ (beuter'b telegrams.) Melbourne, Monday, It is expected tiiat the Kew Reform Bill differs from the previous one only in details, and thai it will con- „. tain^a clause by which the Legisla* tive Council being altered to a Nominee Council is to be decided by a plebißtitum. Melbourne, Tuesday. "Weiberg was acquitted on the charge of theft, but was convicted of receiving the stolen money, and sontenced to five ) ears' imprisonment. Pearce was sentenced to one year. Mr Berry, in introducing the Be-

form Bill, recapitulated the history ( of the former Bill, which whs resultless, owing to the Council's action, j The Premier dwelt upon his labors in London, and said that Sir MicliHel Hicks- Beach's despatch established, ' firstly the analogy between the House j of Commons and the Legislative Assembly ; secondly, that the pretensions of the Legislative Council caused all the deadlocks; thirdly, the means of finality in legislation. Mr Berry referred to the difficulties in New South Wales, South Australia, and New Zealand, where troubles were looming in the dis« tance. The Reform Bill proposes \ that the Legislative Assembly shall be invested with full powers in the expenditure and taxation, and that Bills passed twice in the Assembly, and twice rejected by the Council, shall be referred to a plebiscite by the Governor. The .Legislative Council shall become a nominee House, and members shall be replaced as they retire- by nominees, whose qualification shall be ten years' residence ; and the property qualification is to be abolished. Sydney, Tuesday. The steamer Tambaroora, from Sydney to Rockhampton, got stranded near Cape Capricorn, and is in a very dangerous situation, but the crew are safe.