LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5043, 5 June 1895, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ItemralJiiwo,lo.3s a.m. Sydsev, June 5. The Legislative Assembly is still sitting and no progiess is being made with business owing to the obstructive tactics of tho Opposition. The Speaker applied the closure to Mr Thomas Hose, member for Argyle, who was making a stonewall speech and had spoken for three hours.

Reports are in circulation that Mr Eddy was offered a salary of £IO,OOO with a two years engagement by the Victorian Government to set the railway of that colony in order.

Replying (o a question in the Legislative Assembly the Minister of Ituihvays said he knew nothing of this arrangement. There seems to he little possibility of the House agreeing to the inereaso in Mr Eddy's salary, The House voted a salary of £IUOO if Mr Eddy was appointed solo Commissioner, hut the Government is unlikely to accept this,

Melbourne, June 5, The Government lias instructod Mr Wilson, the dairy expert, to visit New Zealand at the end of tie month to enquire into the manufacture of cheese on the Canadian principle, with a view to imparting instruction to local factories.

Mr Alison Smith, late Locomotive Superintendent for Victoria, has begun an action against The A<ja claiming £15,000 for libel alleged to be contained in a series of articles dealing with the railways of the colony. Mr Smith is conducting 1 his own case against The Aije. Under the new tin-ill", the duty on horses is abolished.