AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PBEBB ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, November 23. Mr Barton laid on the table correspondence relating to the. protest of Japan against alinn restriction. The Japanese Ambassador ii London objected ti the educational test as a means of discrimination, and requested that Japanese should be placed on tbe swne footing as European races. Mr Chamberlain pointed out that in 1897 Japan asked that Australian restrictions should follow the lines of the Natal Act. He b°liev d this had b«»n done in tha Federal Bill, and he rl I not think the Imperii Government was in a position to suggest any modification. Sydney, November 23. A rat found in tbe vicinity of the outbreak of plague contains plague bacill'. Three suspicious cases have been diagnos°d »s nit plague, Brisbane, November 23. The sugar quastion is being debated in she Assembly. On a motion for the establishment of a S*-a f « refinery, and an amendment that the indos'ry b» ptaeed on a sound basis by the continuance of the present Kanaka Labourers Act for a furrh*r ten yesrs. Mr Philp, who raised the ire of Queensland represent x<i?e? in the F deral Parliament by writing to theP.residen of the Senate giving his views on the Federal B'l!,Bud it would ba a bad day if the St>te? could not approich b->th Federal Houses by letter. On** me.Tiber staled that the Premier ra»re'y give the views of the Government, which did rot represent the views of the memb'rs of the Stite Parliament. Received 2t. 5.31 p.m. Sydney, November 24. Obituary: George Thomson, Legislative Councillor, oetat 83. Deceased was an nld Sydney identity, and war Minister for Mines in Sir Giorge Dibbs' Cabinet in 1885. The Rev. Dem O'Haran ha l * bean presented with an address and £BOOO to teoup him hia expenses in the Coningham case.