LATEST NEWS.
AUSTRALIAN. f REUTER—COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 16, 1 p.m.) ALBANY, March 15. Dr Suteri Bishop of Nelson, is a passenger by-the Australia, which arrived here yesterday, en route for Melbourne. MELBOURNE, this day. Telegraphic communication between Australia and Java is expected to be restored hourly. Mr James Service, the Premier, addressed his constituents at Castlemaine last night, and unfolded the Ministerial programme. - He justified the coalition as the only means of obtaining practical legislation ahd expressed himself as sanguine of a satisfactory result. He announced the abolition of political patronage in Government departments including railway and education branches and the appointment of a Board to manage the railways. He further announced that railways would be extended, the water supply improved, and steps taken to settle the country. Measures would be proposed to promote mining. He stated that the finances, of the last Government are in a deplorable slate. Messrs Deakin, Tucker, Langridge and Levien, some of Mr Services’s colleagues, also addressed the meeting. Mr Rose, 'member for North Melbourne, has been elected unopposed.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1010, 16 March 1883, Page 3
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