AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2380, 2 November 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[l3 v Tklkgk.U’h.] [Per Te Anau at Russell.] NEW SOUTH WALKS Svhxkv, Oct. 2S. The election excitement is increasing. Parliament rc-asscmblcs in a month, ihe Premier, at a pic-nic, denounced the claims of the selectors for a remission of interest on their balance as tantamount to burglary. Lord Carnarvon promises to visit the colony. VICTORIA. Up to October 27, 94,0-1!) persons paid for admission to the Exhibition. _ The Treasurer’s statement in the Assembly occupied two hours in delivery. Next evening O’Loughlen submitted that they were illegal as special appropriations for salaries could not be touched by a mere gazette notice. He promised to raise the question in Committe of Supply. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. In the Assembly on October 20 it was stated that Poothby, CALC., Undersecretary, had been dismissed by the Governor without the ad vice of Ministers, for irregularities chiefly in connection with his expenses as Executive Commissioner of the Paris Exhibition, ihere were live charges in all, widely were serious from an ollicial point of view, but not amounting to criminal acts. Considerable feeling was displayed in the Assembly on October 7, in consequence of its being understood that the Governor had been advised not to assent to a Pill for the extension of the juris" diction of local courts, because it gives no right to appeal to the Privy Council in cases where jtibOO was involved. Great displeasure was expressed at the conduct of the Governor. A motion for the suspension of standing orders was carried by a majority of 14, but this not being an absolute majority the motion was declared lost.