AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1676, 5 April 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

• — " ♦ .. [Per s.s; itanroto.j (united PBBsi AssodiAtidx;)^ , . Stwwt, Matfeh 27. , Nothing is being done m Parliament pending the budget statement, which is to be made next Friday. A deputation of members of the Assembly waited on the Premier yesterday . I to urge upon Government, m framing; I their financial policy, to impose taxes om J the agricultural prod ucfcs - ; of neighbonT»"3 ins: colonies, and also establish a department of agriculture. Sir Patrick Jennin«8 c , expressed hirosejf favourable to. the latter project" and was'peiffectly willing to admit that everything: that was reasonably, should be dona forithe promotion of agriculture, but beyond that he could give no information. Yesterday the |JuU> Court gave judgment m cases brougfitfby Mr !Ai.,Gv Tay v i lor against the Sergeiwit-at- Arms and the Chairman of Committees, finding that m both cases that the right to exclude Mr Taylor? from the Assembly on the re-^ solution passed by .tile IJouse wM r il^\ legal. ' *• « - . U. -^ Very heavy rain commenced on Thurs« day afternoon, with a thunderstorm, and continued all night, when- nearly three inches fell. At one time the fall was equal to nearly four inches van hour. Bain lias fallen m various parts of the/ ■country. ; , : , . : • l Two" hundred cats have been sent npr. to, the Tonga Run, m the Bourke dis- : ; trict, to wage war against the rabbits. r . ; At the meeting of the Engineering, Association it wag stated that the.cost of working trains -in Sydney was eight times that of some systems m England, and it was asserted that it was the cost of labour that was killing the sy»- . fern. •■.•'; Meiboubnb, March 27. There seems some doubt as to the Bis-, hop of Newcastle, England, being the successor to Dr Moorhouse. ■ ' Adelaide, .March 27/ The Government is making great re- ' trenchrapnts. Ministers will reduce their own salaries from fIOOO to i'Boo ayear.., Extensive works are to be uhder- » taken, to find employment for those wanting work. k ■■■ ; ;*