AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2408, 15 December 1887, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Reiter's telik.'Ram-.) Sypnev, December 12. Ml: Dibb? has commenced an action for damages against tin.- Daily Telegraph in connection with tin- Thompson episode, wh-rein Mr Thomp-on, t-Pi ring to Mr Bibbs’ Financial Statement, charged that gentleman with compiling thedeficit into a surplus. Mi’.i.koi’kne, December 111. Nothing further fia? transpired in coninclion with the murderous assault on •in- at Illenhunfly. The man Gtoc.ek. who was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of having committed the a-sault, was charged at the Police I'ourt y.-sterdav, and remanded for a week, hail being refused. Tile stationmaster is now thought to he out of daugtr. Pkiitii (\V- A..1 December I‘2. Glowing report? continue to be received from the Kimberley goldfields. Upwards of 120 claim? have been registered rceentiv. It is reported that an expert has declared the Lady Broome reef to be piyable stone all the way through. Machinery is now on its way to the diggings. (Received December lltfl, 1.3 ' joa.) Sydney, December It. The Assembly sat all night on Mr Dihl/s motion of censure on tlie Goverunient. The proceedings were very disorderly, and fourteen momliers, including several of the principal members of the Opposition, having been suspended from -itting, the motion that the question be now put was carried without division. So many supporters of the vote of censure having been suspended the House is now (10 a.in.) still sitting.