AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2540, 20 October 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by electric telegraph.—copyright. I Melhouhnb, October 18. During the discussion on the new Elecrornl Bill, Mi'C. E. Jones, oue of the members for B;illar;vt East, accused the Premier of being drunk. October 19. The Jubilee Conference, in connection with the Congregational Union has concluded its sittings. It was decided that the first meeting of the Union should be held in Sydney, aud the Rev. Mr Price of Launceston was elected first chairman. Sydney, Oatober 18. A very severe drought is being experienced throughout the colony, and is likely to prove almost unexample 1 in its effects, A great colonial disaster can only be averted by an early and copious rainfall. It was the intention of the of the Stockton mine to coal the Union Steamship Company's Waihora, notwithstanding the fact that the vessel was employing non-Union coal trimmers. The Stockton miners threatened to cease work if the vessel was coaled. October 19. The Hon. William Clark, Minister of Justice, denies that he gave the prisoner Holt any hopes of his sentence being commuted, and in denial he is supported by the statement of the gaoler. Adelaide, October 18. The Legislative Council to day negatived an amendment to the Chinese Exclusion Bill providing for the exclusion of Chinese from the Northern territory.