AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 15 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYBIGHT.) '" (REUTER'a TELEGRAMS.) j I -.''■. -, MELBOinwfB, Dec, 12. ; I c Parliament was prorogued this afternoon by his Excellency the Governor, who m the course of his speech on the' ; occasion remarked that the session had (been distinguished by its magnitude and ;the fruitf ulness "of the labours undertaken. Ha congratulated, the members ; upon the unanimity displayed m the jpassing of the various resolutions .relating to federation and annexation. The which had been made to {the 'Imperial Government had .only been ! partially successful,' A .satisfactory^ I profiecturato had,. however, been already j established over the southern portion of ;.NW (xiiineai and be hoped that this jatep was only a purcursor of the more extended jurisdiction m the Western Pacific., His advisers would continue. to iearaestly watch the effect "of the French orecidiviste movement, and, m case of ■necessity would take such .further steps as might be found necessary. It was :«Dcb«r aging to observe that the Imperial :Government promised to legislate for $he establishment of an Australian Federal Council. Reference was also made ito .the land .and railway bills, and m jctmcJtisibn his Excellency declared that {the prosperity of the colony had been and augamented during the [past year.