AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 154, 11 June 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Reuter’s Telegrams.] Adelaide, June 10. In the House of Assembly this evening Mr. Calton moved a vote of Want of Confidence. The House then adjourned. Melbourne, June 10. Reports which have been circulated regarding the bank robbery case at Horsham has been ascertained to be incorrect. Considerable excitement has been caused here by three reported cases of small-pox at Malvern and Praham, partially confirming the suspicion that it was this disease which caused the death at the Sanatorium of the man Barker, although the medical officers considered his case doubtful. The Oriental Bank case concluded to-day, when Judge Molesworth decided that the Colonial affairs of the corporation should be wound up locally under the Company’s Statute. Sailed this afternoon, the Union steamship Rotomahana, for the Bluff. The medical officers declare that the case at Malvern is chicken-pox—not small-pox. OPENING OF THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT. The Victorian Parliament was opened today by his Excellency, Sir William Stawell. In his speech on the occasion the Acting Governor, after recording the universal regret which was felt at the death of the late Prince Leopold, referred at length to the recent intercolonial convention, and recapitulated various matters which came under discussion. The Speech announced that minutes of proceedings at the convention would be laid before Parliament, and stated with reference to the recedivistes question that if unfortunately the protests of the convention and the diplomatic action of the Imperial Government and the increasing exertion of his Excellency’s advisers should prove ineffectual, his advisers would be prepared to take such steps as the threatened danger might necessitate, and in this view it was proposed to constitute a council of defence. The Speech expressed gratification at the success of the International Exhibition lately held at Calcutta. It referred to the abundant harvest and affirmed the prosperous condition of the colony at the present time. Bills are announced for the Amendment of the Land Laws, for Further Extension of the Railway System, for the Amendment of the Laws relating to Banking, and for the Constitution of a Metropolitan Board of Works for the City of Melbourne.