AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3166, 8 October 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(UT Er.KCTIiIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.) Mej-holtrxk, October G. In the Legislative Assembly Sir Bryan. O'Loglilin proposed a moHonof jubilation at the victory of the Homo Jiulo party in the United Kingdom, but Sir Graham Berry said the Government deemad tlie motion inexpedient, and the matter was shelved. October 7. Plato, the manager, charged with being accessory to the murder of Cornwall, a farmer, at Warracknabeal for which Mrs O'Brien was sentenced to death, has been acquitted. Sydney, October o', The Labour Electoral League ha* carried a resolution to the effect that Messrs W. 11. Sharp.S. D. Fitzgerald, A. J. Kelly.nnd J. Johnston, members of the Legislative Assembly, who were relumed <r.i the labour ticket, be regarded as traitors to the cause of labour in voting against the vote of censure on tho Government moved by the leader of the Opposition. An application for change of venue in connection with the trial of those charged with conspiracy at Broken Hill has been granted, and the cases will be heard at Deijiliquiu before the Chief Justice, October 7. A now Electoral Bill has been introduced into the Legislative A "■seu.bly which provides for the reduction of the members of the House from 121 jto 123. Electorates are to be defined by a commission on simular lines to New Zealand, and there is to be ;i periodical distribution every 10 years, or when the populations increase 33 per cent. at. intervals of five years. Paupers, criminals, [aliens, and luantic are disqualified. All Elections will take place on one day, nomination proceedings and deposit with nomination paper having been abolished. Adelaide, October 7. The Butter Bonus Bill, which prorides for the payment of a bonus of 2d per pound on butter in qus ntities of not los-s than JOOlbs, lias passed through Committee in the Legislative • Assembly. Bi!i.si!;\.\E, October 6'. At the annual convention of the Builders'and Contractors' Assocut'on of Australia, a motion was carried in favour of leaving l.be. insurance of workmen to the disci^; : -'U of individual builders.