AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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Sydney, July 26. A constitutional crisis has arisen, owing to the Council amending the Payment of Members Bill, in the direction of making it apply only to succeeding Parliaments, and not to the present one. The Speaker declared the Council had not tiie right to amend a money Bill. Sir H. P.irkes moved the Bill 1)3 set aside to permit the passing of auother Bill asserting the rights of the Assembly. A hot debate followed, in the course of which the Council came in for severe criticism. Mr Dibbs said the Opposition would assist the Government to the utmost. The motion was cirricdand Sir H. Parkes then gave notice of motion to suspend the. Standing Orders in order to pass the Bill through all its stages in one day. He also announced he would inI trod nee a Bill next week to reform the Council on the basis of popular election.

There is fully one-third lets area sown 11 wheat than last year in the Albury :listi ict.

Evidence as t) sanity of the man Weaver, who shot Captain Green less, of the schooner Colonist, at Havaniiah harbour, is being taken before a special commission, and will be forwarded to Fiji, where the man is in custody. At the inquest into the accident at the Globe I'it, the jury found that it was due to the weakness of the pillars supporting the roof, The jury added a rider censuring Sharp, the overman, for not calling the men out when the falls from the roof were first reported. Hoiukt, July 2G. The Arawa arrived to-day at 3 30 a m, She sails for New Zealand at I 1 o'clock this evening. She brings 'JO passengers for Australia and 71 for New Zealand. MianoDiiNis, .fitly 2G. The Government has been taken completely by surprise at Sir J. Hector replying that he has 11 jthing further to report 011 the Victorian coal-fields. They assert they were given distinctly to understand the lirst report was merely a preliminary one. The Victorian Commissioners were encouraging manufacturers and others to send in applications for space at the Dunedin Exhibition. Brisbane, July 2Q. Parliament has agreed to an increase of the representation on the bisis arrived at ,by the Feleral Council.