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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1016, 7 June 1878, Page 7

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Per Bingarooma, aC'the Bluff. Melbourne, May 29. In the present' dormant 'state of politics, there is very little to interest. The Ministry made a great blunder in issuing free passages to country mayors to travel by rail to the Governor's levee, and in almost compelling Jihe Civil Service officers to be present thereat. T/be result was that more than one third consisted of Civil servants, while the mercantile interest did not number a dozen representatives. , This week the -nhief ..Secretary, and other members of the Ministry are skirmishing over the country and attending banquets of local representatives. The cable contract has been drawn up. and forwarded by telegraph to London. - The company have to duplicate their lines}with_n -eight months from the date of signing the agreement; but if the cable is laid ..inside of this period the subsidy will commence' 'from five months after the signing of the agreement. Press telegrams must be addressed to x licensed newspapers, and be in plain English, with no cypher or -words of concealed meanI ing. „ Mr Parrell having resigned his seat for Castlemaine, Professor : Pearson and Mr William Gaunson are candidates on the Government side. Mr Chapman has been chdsen^ihtthe^Qppositidn intererts. The Government hav§ found work for upwards of 200 of the unemployed in carrying out drainage works, and intend f urther^carry 'out- two \ of rtlie new lines of railway by day labour ; but a large number of the unemployed, are not labourers, but belong to the building and \ mecl-anical trades, . j

| /Public confidence not being completely restored, very little building is being proceeded with. The Government are very anxious to commence the erection of the exhibition buildings in Carlton Gardens, as otherwise the vote will lapse on the 30th prox. The building will ultimately cost about -5100,000, and the Government are cLesirous of proceeding without the conncurrence of the Upper House, and with that end in view have tried, 'with the City Council,, to reconvey to the Government the land vested in the Corporal tion as trustees. Country trade is very dull, and no business of importance doing. It is stated that Governor Bobinson has been offered ah important position by the Imperial Government, but nothing is officially known, and the statement is doubted.The revenue of Queensland shows an. increase. Th« estimated' revenue of next year is over a million and a half. Governor Bobinson subscribed 20 guineas to the proposed monument to the late Archbishop Pclding. ' ' A Chinaman, for the murder of one of his countrymen at Goulbourn, "was executed yesterday. ,'