AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 229, 24 October 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

j PEK PKESS ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, October 22. j In connection with the proposal «of the Union Company to improve the j Canadian mail wvico for an additional subsidy of £25,000, Canada seems inclined to ditcuss ihe question, and hss asKed the Commonweal'h to agree to share the increased subsidy. The Postmaster-General is not at present prepared to negotiate, or to to do anything till the new mail contracts between England and Australia are settled. Lord Tennyson, in reply to Parliament's address, thanked the fi-st Parliament for '-ho kindness and consideration shown to him, adding thit he and Lady Tennyson had spent four truly happy yuara in Australia. Lord Ttnuysoo in proroguing Parliament congratulated it on the woik accomplished. The duty cast on the first Parliament of putting into operation the intricate provisions of the Constitution had been discharged with ability, patience, and patriotism. Hobart, October 22. The Constitution Amendment Bill was introduced in the Assembly. It provides for the reduction of members and dissolution of both Houses. Received 24, 1.37 a.m. Hobart, October 23. The Ruapehu when seven days from Hobart sighted several icebergs 200 feet high and a mile long,