CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4430, 16 March 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

BeUTEe's TEIEGBAMB

AUSTRALIAN.

[Received March 16, 1 -p.m ] Albany, Yesterday. Dr. Suter, Bishop of Nelson, is a pasI senger by the Australia, which arrived here yesterday, en route for Melbourne. Melbourne, This day. i Telegraphic communication between Australia and Java is expected to be restored hourly. Mr James Service, Premier, addressed his constituents at Castlemainelast night. He unfolded the Ministerial programme, and justified the coalition as the only means of obtaining practical legislation ; he also expressed himself as sangnine of a satisfactory result, and announced the abolition of political patronage in Government departments, including the railway and educational branches, and the appointment of a Board to manage railways. He further announced that railways should be extended, and the water supply improved; that steps should be taken to settle the matters of the country, and measures would be proposed to promote miuiug management. lie stated that the finances of the last Government are in a deplorable state. Messrs Deakin, Tucker, Langridge, and Levien, some of Mr Service's colleagues, also addressed the meeting. - Mr Rose, the member for North Melbourne, has been re-elected unopposed. Melboubne, Yesterday. An accident occurred to-day at Clunes on the Norih-western railway through the pointsman tuvning the irain on to the wrong lice. Several passengers were injured, but no fatalities are reported.