INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 121, 21 May 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

. „ „ Brisbane, Thursday. Another discovery of tin has been made at ecret ' *** loCality 1b afc P resent ke Pt The steomer Leichart has rescued all the Europeans and 93 Islanders from the schooner Noumea, wrecked on the Saumarez reef. Seven Islanders were drowned in attempting to reach the boats sent out from the vessel. ( Stdnet, Thursday. Sailed— City of Sydney for Auckland with the outward San Francisco mail. Friday. Disturbances are reported from the Newcastle district owing to the strike. Two hundred women and crowds of children Blobbed some of the laborers at the Australian Agricultural Company's mine, and the police were powerless to suppress the outbreak. Nobody was seriously injured during the disturbance. A repetition of the mobbing is threatened. A clause has been introduced into the Electoral Bill now before the Assembly, .^hich. requires candidates for election to deposit £40. ' j

Melbourne, Friday. Mr Service's Reform Bill was read the first time in the Assembly last night without a division. The debate on the second reading will commence on Tuesday. Mr Service introduced his Bill for the Reform of the Constitution in the Assembly to-night, and gave an exhaustive history of colonial reform, and followed in the line of his previous speeches on the subject. The Bill provides for the extension of the franchise for the Council to £10 property holders, making the total number of electors for the Council £110,000, being an increase of 80,000 j electors. Finality of legislation to be en- . sured by a double dissolution, and in the event of disagreement afCer the elections, 1 both Houses would sit and vote together on the Appropriation Act. The 60th clause of the Constitution Act will be jjexcluded from the Reform Bill.