Australian Telegrams.
Melbourne, December 5. A. China telegram states that the season has ended for Colonial shipment of tea. The crop is 1,750,000 lbs. short as compared with last season. Thirty per cent, advance on freight from England is advised. The Victorian . G®vernmeinb is consulting ten leading barristers as to whether forty-three constitute an absolute majority m the House, It is understood that Mr Higginbotham expressed a favourable opinion. ! Messrs. Grant and Poster, who are deputed on a visit to New Zealand by 5000 Lincolnshire farmers desirous of emigrating, have krrived here by the Norfolk. All possess capital. Tho Rev. Mr Berry, whose lectures induced the above to come out is also a passecger. The legal point of (be Reform Bill is referred to the Queen's councillors, with Mr Higginbotham as Bar leader. Mr Berry failed to obtain the necessary statutory majority for the Reform Bill, which is therefore lost Three oppositionists were unable to vote. There was almost a free fight m the Assembly, the Government having captured a member who promised to vote with the Opposition,
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1163, 9 December 1879, Page 2
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178Australian Telegrams. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1163, 9 December 1879, Page 2
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