AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2616, 18 April 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY KLKCTIUU TELKURU'II—COI'VUIGHT.) Syd.vkv, April 10. Kkavy raiu has fallen during the last two days, interrupting communication on the' overland lines and delaying cable messages. Hen-Steubel, recently appointed German Consul at Samoa, has arrived in aydDey - April 17. At the inquest oil the bodies of the striker and driver who were killed in the Juiioo railway accident, a verdict was returned to the effect that the accident was due to general neglect of the oltiIn'the Assembly last night, a Bill entitled Ministerial Election Bill providing for the abolition of the system of Ministers returning to their constituents for re-election, was read a second time. In the course of a speech Sir H. Parkes said the Bill dealt a deadly blow at the Constitution. Bktsuane, April 16. A body of unionist printers attacked several non-unionist printers iu the streets last night. The latter were brutally maltreated. Mkusoukne, April lb. Captain Whitney lias re-opened negotiations for the establish meat of a cartridge factory in Victoria. Adelaide, April w. Copious rains have fallen throughout the colony. Perth, April 17. The Legislative Council have resolved that the peace and harmony of the comn.uuity is impossible so long as Mr Onslow continues to hold offico as Ghiet Justice.