AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2933, 2 May 1891, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY KliE' I'HIU TKL.KGiaI'H-COI'VUUaH). Mkluocknk, April 3d. Tiik oonimittw of the Labour Congress, now silting at Unllamt, bus prpsmitfil it* rojiort on political reform, hut owin.ir to divergence of opinion on the subject, it v.is decided to (listjonlinii" the discussion. A resolution was jiii-i-iod denying tlio statements of Mr H. li. Ohiiingioii in tlio English ;uid colonial Pn-ssAvith itimf.'iicn to the recent strike. The c:en»in for the <;ily of Melbourne gives tho populutiuH at ■ls!l,()(K>. May 1. Tin' third rcjjjinifiiit of Militia, at Biilliirat r-eiiisud duty, owing fo the olKoor arrest inn; a sergeant. Only right turned up on purade. Sydney, April yo. Tlio llev. Olmrlos Clmk denies that lie is tliu author of the. letter* published in th« London Press denouncing the: insensate sclfislnnenl of AvtsImliiin workmen, and accusing them ol" driving rji.pititl away from the colony. The census leiunis for the city of Sydnny gives the population as ;;n().oo'o. May 1. Sir G. (irtiy received an enthua'ttstic welcome lit Broken Hill. A lnrgj procession of hibour bodies received him. He delivered h. lecture in the evening on '•I^deration." BnisjiANK, April 30. The Daily Telegraph, while sympathising with the Jews expelled from KussiiT, opposes their wholesale influx into Australia. What appears to have beeu u dehborate attempt at niiin.l'u- has been committed at Barcaldinu. One of the unionists gave a trooper an apple poisoned with strychnine, but by the early application of emetics the doctor saved the trooper's life. Adki.aidk, April :>O. The Hon, W. Copley, Commissioner of Oowu Lands, who recently made a toiu of New Zealand, has prepared an. elaborate report on homestead settlement in that colony.