Late Australian News.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5222, 13 October 1885, Page 2

Late Australian News.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

(Via Apckiand, This Day.) Sydney, October 8

Mr Dibbs has issued an address to the electors of St. Leonard's, announcing briefly the intentions of the new Ministry. The proposed measures and fiscal policy of the late Government will be adopted, bat it is proposed to amend the patent laws and Civil Service, and a railway into the city will be commenced at an early date; the firm maintenance of the Public School Act, and an unflinching adherence to the grand principles of Free Trade. It is expected that all the elections will be completed by the end of the present month. No opposition to the manifesto has yet been issued, but Sir Wm. Bobertson is mustering his followers for the composition of a new Ministry. The new Ministry does npt meet with general approval, and it is thought is not sufficiently strong to meet the House after the elections. Adelaide. Mr Smith's resolution in the Assembly, in favor of holding a Jubilee Exhibition, has been carried against the Government by an absolute majority of the House. Brisbane. At a meeting of the Cabinet to consider the details of the Federation Adopting Bill, it was decided that a representative should be appointed for a term of three years. A destructive fire has occurred at Cairns, caused by the blacks, who fired the cane in several places. Melboubne. The weir spanning the Orora river burst; there was no flood to cause the collapse, except a slight freshet, due to recent rains. It was stated in the Assembly that the new Loan Bill would provide for an ex* penditure on irrigation works. Samuel Trotman, a compositor in the Government Printing Office, is charged with criminal libel in having sent a tele* gram to a friend in Sydney stating that the Federal Bank was broken, and advising him to draw out his money. The case will probably be settled.