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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5714, 23 July 1879, Page 2

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(REUTERS TELEGRAMS.J Melbourne, Tuesday. It is expected that the Reform Bill will differ from the previous Bill only in details. It proposes that a plebiscitum shall be taken on the question of a nominee Council. Weiberg was acquitted on the charge of theft, but was convicted of receiving the stolen money, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Pearce was sentenced to one year,. Cablegrams to go by the steamer from Port Darwin should be despatched on Thursday. Mr. Berry, in introducing the Reform Bill, recapitulated the history of the former Bill, which was resultless, owing to the Council's action. The Premier dwelt upon his labors in London, and said that Sir Hicks-Beaoh’s despatch established, firstly the analogy between the House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly; secondly, that the pretensions of the Legislative Council caused all the deedlocks; thirdly, the means of finality in legislation. Mr. Berry referred to the difficulties in New South Wales, South Australia, and New Zealand, where troubles were looming in the distance. The Reform Bill proposes that the Legislative Assembly shall be invested with full powers in the expenditure and taxation, and that Bills passed twice in the Assembly, and twice rejected by the Council, shall be referred to a plebiscite by the Governor. The Legislative Council shall become a nominee House, and members shall be replaced as they retire by nominees, whose qualification shall be ten years’ residence; and the property qualification is to be abolished. Sailed—Albion. Sydney, Tuesday. Parliament will prorogue on Thursday. The steamer Tambaroora, from Sydney to Rockhampton, got stranded near Cape Capricorn, and is in a very dangerous situation, but the crew are safe.