AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Jii Electric TBLEOEArH.—CoprRioHT.I Stdnet, March 22. Mr Haynes denounced, the Protectionists and Roman Catholics in the course of a speech in the House last night, aud Mr Fletcher walked over and seized him by the throat and threw him on a seat, and was only dragged off with difficulty, amidst much excitement, by the Sergeant, at-arms. After apologising freely, he was suspended for the.rest of the sitting, Mr John Haynes intends issuing a writ against Mr James Fletcher, claiming £5000 damages for the assault committed upon him in the' House of Assembly. The search for the bodies of the three men and the boy, who are supposed to have been drowned in Botany Bay last Sunday, has proved fruitless up to the present. The man Carroll, who stated that lie was the perpetrator of the Elthain murder, has been realeaed, in consequence of the receipt of a cablegram from the authorities at Scotland Yard stating that he could not be the murderer, Two other corporations have discovered frauds by their officers. The Government intend to solicit the joint action of the colonies in asking tho Imperial Government to legislate to prevent the Chinese coming to Australasia at all. Cooktown, March 22. A pearling expedition from tho eastern end of New Guinea has returned. It proved a failure. The water was too deep, and fever was prevalent. Six of the divers died in a month. Melbouhnk, March 22. The Argus sees no cause for regret at the disallowance of the Divorce Extension Bill. In so important a matter legislation ought to bo uniform. If such a measure were carried Sydney would become the Gretna Green of divorce for the colonies.