AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 2 November 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(PER STEAMER, AT AUOK^ANP,.) 1?IW WAim< interest in the coming eleotiona is every day increasing. The preliminary arrangements are nearly completed. In addressing the builders' picnic, the Premier declared the claim advanced for the remission of interest on selectors' balances outside the rtffig© of reasonable discussion, up.lgaa burglary were within thp gftid rapge, He stated there would be a pew Parliament in a month or a few weeks, Private letters from Lord Carnarvon intimates a hope of a visit to the Colonies. The Education Department is now serving notices on those parents who, are neglecting to send their children to school. The p£ Manchester will be banqueted at the Town Hall to-morrow. Th§ Mayor presides,

YICTORIA,

Both the Argus and the Age strongly attack Mr. Berry for billeting his sons. > Deliveries of wheat and ; produce from the country are increasing, and last week amounted to over 3700 bags. Up to the 26th October (inclusive) 94,549 persons, including season ticketholders, paid admission to the Exhibition, and was gaid on the 27th. . In the Assembly, on the 26th October, the Treasurer, delivered his financial statement, occupying over two hours. It was not considered a happy production. It | was top colloquial, and entered too much I into detail. The following night Sir I Bryan O'Loghlen submitted, as points of order, that the estimates before the Assembly were illegal, and ought to be removed. He said the Civil Service Act provides for a special approximate, so far as the salaries can only be touched by an Amending Act, or by message from the Governor, recommending a new seal®. A mere gazette notice was Mr. Kerferd and the; es Attorney-General Qoncflrpefl, and said , the Appropriation A°t could not be made to repeal another, Ao£. The Speaker objected to being taken by surprise. Sir Bryan O'Loghlen gave notice that he would formally the matter forward on going Com*, mittee of Supply, 1 ■'

SQUTH AUSTRALIA. ; In the. Assembly on the 26th October it was stated that Mr. Boothley, O.M.G. v

jvernor with the advise of Ministers „ur irregularities chiefly in connection with 'his expenses as Executive Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition. There were five charges in all, each serious from an official point of view, but not amounting to criminal acts. A considerable display of feeling occupied the Assembly on the 27th October in consequence of it being understood that the Governor had been advised not to assent to a bill for the extension of the jurisdiction of the local Courts because it gave no right of appeal to the Privy Council incases where LSOO were involved. Great displeasure was expressed at the conduct of the Governor. A motion for the suspicion of the standing Orders was carried by a majority of 14, but not being an absolute majority the motion was declared lost. The House then threatened not to proceed with the business, whereupon the Government offered a compromise. QUEENSLAND. The Railway Company's Preliminary Bill has been passed through Committee with considerable amendment and read a third time. The Treasury Bills Bill has passed its second reading. The amonnt of issue is to be L 252,525. The Bill subsequently passed through Committee. The Premier stated that there was no intention of. placing the loan on the market at the pre-, sent time.

The Logan farmers are going in for cotton planting this year.