AUSTRALIAN. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 26 September 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Mklhourvk, September 2 t. Mr Service, the Victorian Premier, has been informed by tlie Govern ment of South Australia th.it it is their intention to introduce a bill into Parliament in order to provide for the representation of that colony in the Federal Council, which holds its first sitting at Hobart. The Union Steamship Company's s.s. Msinapouri arrived here this morning from the Bluft".

Sydney, September 2 k The Cabinet has decided to join New Zealand in subsidising the San Francisco mail service. The amount to ba paid by New South Wales is to be £7000 per annum. The amendment moved by Mr Burns to the Addres-in-Reply, censuring the Government for not calling Parliament together at an earlier date, was rejected List night by a majority of .">1 to 18. A case of small-pox has made its appearance at ltandwick. The whole members of the family in which it has occurred have been placed in quarantine. Sailed, last night : The Hauroto, foi Wellington.

{Received September '1 oh, 115 p m ] Sydxey, September 25. Eight persons in all have been placed in quarantine in connection with the outbreak of small-pox at Rand wick. It is believed the disease was contracted originally by the mother, some weeks ago. Arrived : R.M.S. Zealandia, from Auckland.

Bhisbaxk, September 25. Iv the House of Assembly, List night, a sum was pl.iced on the estimates for payments voted, by 2.] to 21.

Mklbouuve, September 25. The Legislatne Assembly, list night, rejected by a majority of outvote, the clause in the new Licensing Act prohibiting the employment of barmaids.

(ReceKed September 2."r't, S p m ) AuKLViDh, Friday. Tlie British India Steam Navigation Company has concluded ;vrran^einents for cstTblishing .1 re^ul.ir line of steamers between Adelaide and Calcutta, proceeding ia Torres •Straits. The ser\ ice is expected to commence shortly.