AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

BRISBANE PARLIAMENT. By Cable.— V ic ■• * ssnoiu tion.—Copyright Brisbane, August 0. IParlitunoiit has been adjourned to the 24th. Mr. Woods created n scene in the Assembly by declaring that the Opposition always had to give way to th l ' lioveniment. Mr. Woods wan'*suspended till later in the sitting. On leaving Ihe Mouse lie saiil he would ''deal with" the Speaker when lie returned, adding: "I put you in Parliament, a-,id I'll put you out." I The .House adjourned to August 14 ti: enable the Hon. Kidxton to attend Iho Premiers' Conference. OLD A(iE PENSIONS. fc~i Melbourne, August 8. The Senate amended the Old Age Pciihion Bill to extend invalid pensions to mi turn Used Asiatics, Maoris, and African blacks,

wows FitAxciirsE. Melbourne. August 0. Out! hundred and sixty-eight thousand women have been enrolled as vot(rs for the liegislative Assembly. I'riEFKRHNTfAL VOTING. Melbourne, August fl. The sitting of tho State Assembly was suspended for n couple of hours at tlie invitation of the Treasurer whib mock elections were held in one of the (•runmittee- toamn to demonstrate th" working of (he preferential voting aystem. A seetion of the House objects to (lie introduction of the svstem in the Electoral Bill, arid took this novel way of illustrating its objections

OI.D-Afll! PENSIONS. - Ileceived August 7, 12.20 a.m. Melbourne, Last Night. The Senate carried an amendment to the Old-Age Pensions Hill, oxdndiii" naturalised Chinese, Pacific Islanders, Maori and other colored races from pen-' sions. ' COIKACIS BILL. Kceeived August 7. 12,2(1 a.m. Melbourne, |. ilsl xi«-iit. the Coinage Hill was taken in committee in the House of Representative* tor John Forrest explained that the proportion of silver would be tho <minns in the United Kingdom and" Canada. I he coins would be interchangeable with those of the United Kingdom, and orohably would be accepted in Now Zealand and the Pacific IWands. Mr. Fisher (Under of the Opposition) objected to the words "King and Emperor" on the coins, flir John Forrest Ktttted' that he would endeavor to alter them to "Klmr ofall.thcßritm" • JS