AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2456, 7 April 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

❖ [By Electuic Tuumkafh.-- Coi-yrigiit.! Sydney, April ji. Sir Henry Parkes, replying- to the dispatch of Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonics, on the, Chinese question, urges that immediate steps should be taken by the Imperial Government to open negotiations wit'i China to prevent Chinese immigration to Australia. Sir Henry Parises says that if protection cannot be afforded to the Australian colonics, the Parliaments of the colonies must bow to public opinion, and themsebes devise some means to arrest the evil. Melbourne, April 5. Mrs llose, wife of the M.L.A. for North Melbourne, has instituted proceedings iii tl e Divorce Court agiinst her husband adultery on tin; y> irt of l)r R-> > H'i'h a Mrs Weeding, and i uirl belonging to the church where JJr llose pren "lied. Tlie Inttur was co-respoiiilent ii. '.lie divorce pettiion Wr-ecliuir v \V««dnig ■=ome time ago, In that ease the jury nfiirned a verrlict in favour of the petitio ner, but the judge refused to gran!; a d> , cree on the trround that by cruelty luhad driven his wife to misconduct with the co-respondent. The Farmer's Protection Association demand to be placed on an equal footing with trades and industries, and a serii--of resolutions have been passed on th: subject. They ask for single electoralo that there be a bounty on wheat i-xpoi ted, 25 per cent, duty on imported grain, protection from adult ration and imita tion, 22 per cent, on all imported stocit. Auklaiuk, April o. Parliament has been dissolved, and th' polling takes place from May 5 to th"2oth. Parliament will meet on June 12. A vigorous anti-Chinese crusade is goin. on.