INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 165, 13 July 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Sydney, Tuesday. Another case of small-pox has been reported to the Board of Health to-day. The sufferer, Eitaabeth Templeton, lives with her parents in Pyrmont, one of the suburbs adj ining the city. The family has been placed in quarantine. Melbourne, Tuesday. Parliament re-assembled, to-day after the adjournment. In the Legislature Assembly there were only two members on the Government benches behind the new Ministers, and the rest of the House was made up of members of the Opposition and the Corner party No business was transacted and the House adjourned to tbe 28th instant to give time for the Ministerial re-elections, Wednesday. Ih reply to a deputation which waited upon him yesterday Mr Graves, the new Minister of Trade aud Customs, promised to consult the Cabinet with a view to the recision of the regulation whereby New Zealand barley is imported into "Victoria free, when intended for malting purposes previous to re-exportation, Brisbanb, Wednesday. In the Legislative Assembly last Jtiight a debate took place on tho subject of the report of tbe Commission which met in London to report Upon the t3hafi?ea in reference to the contract for the carriage of the steel rails. In the course of the discussion Mr Griffiths, the leader of the Opposition, made a speech, in which he acknowledged he had been mistaken in accusing the Premier (Mr Mcllwraith) of complicity io connection with the contract, but he renewed the charges previously made against Mr Ashwell, the engineer representing the Qovernment in London, of collusion with a firm of which the Premier's brother was a member. Mr Griffith concluded by moving a motion setting forth that the contract forthe carriage of the rails had been made subordinate to the interests of private persona. The debate continued for some time, but was at length adjourned to next sitting.