AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2682, 19 September 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

. _#. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COI'YRIUHT.) Melbourne, September 17. The floods iu the Murray continue, and there is great distress amongst the working classes. Cobra mis four feet under water. Walsh, who attacked Mr Dillon, has been sentenced to three month's imprisonment. Adelaide, September IS. Country advices indicate that the harvest will be several weeks late, but the crops are expected to give satisfactory yields. Brisbane, September 18. It is stated on good authority that the dissension in the Cabinet, which led to the threatened resignation of Sir Thomas Mellwrafch, Premier, was due to the action of a northern faction, led by Hon. Mr John Murtagh Macrossan, secretary for, Public. Works and Mines, who we're angry at the overthrow of the Black Labour question. The Northerners were supported by Hon. Royd Dunlop Morehead, Colonial Secretary, and Hon. W. Patterson, member of the Cabinet, without portfolio. The official explanation states that a difference of opinion exists only as to one of the items in the estimates.—Later. It is regarded as merely a casus belli, and efforts are being made to effect a reconciliation. Sydney, September 18. The steamer, Argus, bound frotn Newcastle to Auckland, returned here owing to an accident to her machinery.

The Premier stated in the Legislative Assembly last night, that Admiral Fairfax had tried to remove the naval station to Melbourne, because of the greater display of Jingoism in Victoria.