AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1468, 30 September 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . ; Melbourne. Sept. 22. A Bill has been introduced 'm'; the Legislative Assemblvto lejjalisdaneigtithour system. The preamble . liiets forth that it is desirable to limit a day's wpik to eight hours, provided that, unless : there be m the agreement anything, to the contrary, eight hours shall be . con-, sidered the day's work m any actipn at law. ■-,/ . The Steam Navigation- Board.has informed the Minister of Custoii^of vthe " -.deliberation; of the Merchanlipjiippuig Court, 'and suggest that tt^-Mdxine ' .\ Board !be. composed of se\:en^^}%onS^— four apppointed by the Goverrap]fint, qne. by the merchants, one by.the MUppwrierk, ;;. ■ and one by the pilots, and suggesifed that shipping casualties be investigated .-. by ■•-. the Marine Board, with legal-? ass^tance, instead of being submitted^ to Several. ' court inquiries. .'•■' -'.5. fe •• ;' ;■ The United States' corvett^jEnfeyprise " arrivetK in Hobson- s Bay 'Oii(|Tmipday^. She has been four years on c^ihnpission; taking ocean sonndings,; arid wilflcall:.' at Wellington en route for New Yp^. . . v >: Tl»e Supreme Court gave a-deqfsion onan application to^quash the conyMftra: of i "■■ the Court-Martial against two solaMers of the permanent artillery of Queetiscliife . who' were found guilty of mutinous^con- < ducti . The Court refused to decide whether the evidence showed - thejipri|'\ soners euilty or not, as a question iVhich . they could not entertain. The, other points wore quashed. A grand performance of .'? Antoigne" will be given m the Town Hall, on No^ vember 6th, by! Gencvieve Ward, assisted by the' Choral Societies.yinaid .of the Lying-in-Hospital, for which £500' is required. The gallery will be divided into boxes which will be sold at from £25to*£i00eacli; the body of the hall . will be reserved, at £1 per seat. boxes and seats are already ; taken. . The aißair promises to be a great success. • .