AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 56, 30 October 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

FAREWELL TO MR WADE. Sydney, October 21). A great rally of Liberals farewclled Mr Gregory Wade and family on the eve of their departure for Japan. COAL MIXERS’ EIGHT HOURS. Sydney, October 30. In the Assembly, the Bill providing for eight hours for coal miners was read a first time. PORT CURTIS BY-ELECTION. Brisbane, October 30. The by-election for Port Curtis was won by Mr Kessel, a Liberal. The scat was previously held by Labour. THE ELECTION OF SENATE. London, October 29. The Government is prepared to apply the principle of proportional representation to the election for the Irish Senate. \ In the House of Commons, clauses five and six of the Home Rule Bill were passed under the guillotine. The Unionists declared that the Nationalists accepted the postponement of the control of the constabulary for the sexennium, hoping that the Imperial Government would coerce Ulster.' Mr Birrell said the military aspect of the force would gradually disappear, and ho hoped at the end of the sexennium they would reduce and then transfer them into the police force.