AUSTRALIAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 76, 15 November 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, Nov. S. — All tho colonies except Victoria decline to double the proposed contribution for New (iuinea. The Government of Victoria, moreover, i-% disinclined to agree to the same w ithout further information from Earl Derby. Melbourne, Nov S.— One of the smallpox patients at the Sanatorium died irom the disease yesterday. Melbouiine, Nov. 10. — All the colonies except Victoria, have declined to double the proposed contribution for New Guinea. The Government of Victoria, however, is disinclined to agree to the same without ! further information fiom Lord Derby. Mrxi'.orrtxi:, November 11.— The English cucketeis arrived from Adelaide yesterday. Melbourne, -Nov. 11. At a banquet given by the newly - appointed Mayor last night Mr Service, Premier, in the course of a speech, said he declined to regard the present decision ot the Imperial Government as to New Guinea as final. Hobakt, Nov. S.— The Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon refused to sanction the payment of the proportionate double contribution now required by the Imperial Government for the annexation of New Guinea. Brisbane, Nov. B.— News has reached here that the birque Bannockburn, bound) from Auckland to Normanton, has gone ashoie on the northern coast, but it is expected she will be got off, and the captain refuses to abandon her. Adelaide, Nov. S.—ln the ' Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the bill providing for the payment of members was thrown out.