AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3557, 20 August 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

PARER AND McINTOSH. Received 11.45 a.m. BRISBANE .This day. Purer and Mcintosh intend leaving on- Saturday moruiiig, and are due in Sydney in the afternoon. TASMANIA?* POLITICS.' .'HOBART, August IS. The censure motion was defeated by 15 to 13, the voting being on strictly party lines - . Q I TEENS LAND POLITICS. AN ANGRY MINISERY. BRISBANE. August 18. Parliament opened today. The Lieutenant-Governor's speech emphasises that the Government proposed legislation in the dire.ctoin of the endowment of children. It made biting reference to the deCega km which recently visited London, stating that it appeared to the Ministry that financiers abroad at the behest ofthree unofficial delegates, informed the Government that loan money would be supplied if lie Government agreed to repeal •• certain legislation which had. been endorsed by the electors at two elections. The Ministry scorned this bribe and refused the infamous proposal, bdlievino- that the elee'drs would agree with them. With the object of testing the question. The Ministry had decided to postpone all legislation, with the exception of amending the Liquor Bill, and "then adjourn Parliament until rh* 1 Premier's return and then to the neonle for endorsenK'"t o f i 1 " fjovemn'mnt 's attitude. Mr. Lennon w*a.s elected president of the Legislative Council.