AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(per ringarooma at the bluff.) Melbourne, March 6. The Government finding that payment on authority of. the Assembly alone was not sufficient, Mr. Berry has given notice of motion that in accordance with the 45th section of the Constitution Act, all revenues shall, during the present year and no longer, be treated as special appropriations. According to a telegram from the Colonial Office, the contents of which are now fully known, the Governor is prevented from going outside the law. He is to take his stand on the law, and if doubtful as to the law he is to have recourse to legal advice at his command. Hr. Berry interprets this as a clear indication that the Governor is to take the advice of his Ministers, backed up by the opinion of the Attorney-General. Some indication of the nature of the Reform Bill to be' introduced is to be given to-day. The Premier expects the Bill will finally settle the pretensions of the people’s representatives to the sole control of the people’s money. Some of the hottest weather this season was experienced last week, but it is now cool. On the first day of the Autumn Race Meeting the struggle in the Leger for the last quarter of a mile, between Cheater and First King, was one of the grandest sights ever seen at Flerhington. Both horses were neck and neck all the distance, and First King only won by a bare half-head. The time was the fastest by two seconds of any race run on this course. A number of telegrams sent to the Colonial Office after the Bth January affair have been returned to the Governor for his information. At a fire at the Beehive Hotel, at Hotham, on Monday night, the landlady, Mias Doherty, lost her life! Sir Bryan O’Loghlan has been appointed a member of the Executive Council, and occupies a front bench with the Ministers. A. cable conference is expected to be held in a few days. W. S. Lystov is very ill. The theatres are only doing, moderately welt* the dull times be-ng severely felt.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5292, 12 March 1878, Page 2
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