Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3133, 19 February 1889, Page 2

Australian.

Sydney, February 16, The last of the elections ■ took place to-day, and leaves the Freetrade party in .a majority of five, The-numbers are—Freetrade, 71; Protection, 66, In the last Parliament the state of the parties was—Freetrade supporters, 80; Protection-, 44. Thus the' latter have secured a considerable number of adherents. Of 13 new seats, those in favor of Protection secured eight, • Melbourne, February 16. ~ A sonsation lias been caused in this city by. the publication of the official correspondence which passed between Chief JusticeHigginbotham, Sirllenry Loch (tho Governor), and Lord Knutsford (tho Secretary of State for the Colonies). This correspondence discloses that Sir William Robinson, of South Australia, was appointed Acting Governor because the opinion of Mr Higginbotbam, the' Chief Justice, and the Colonial Office were widely divergent. ' The formor states that every new Governor has held erroneous viows with regard to his constitutional rights until he found that colonial law was superior to and in many instances at variance with •instructions from tho Colonial Office. Ho "asserts that the nativo-born population was rapidly replacing the English.born, consequently there was a growing feeling of disliko at the action of England towards the colonies and the attitude of the Colonial Office showed it had a probable tendency of general alienation. Eleven hundred cases of typhoid fever have occurred stneo IstDccomber of which 136 were fatal. ■ - ■