AUSTRALIAN.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7253, 8 March 1889, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

0 fPEB PBSSS ASSOCIATION.] Received March 7th, 1.25 p.m. THE N.S.W. TARIFF. Sydnbt, March 7. Mr Joseph Abbott, member for Newtown, gave notice in the House of Assembly last evening that, on April 2nd, he would move that in the opinion of this House the Government, without delay, should introduce a Bill to remove the duties now imposed on bacon, butter, cheese, and kerosene. A CHINESE CAMP BURNED. Melbourne, March 7. A Chinese camp at Haddon, situated on Smythe's Creek, 110 miles west of Melbourne, and near Ballarat, has been destroyed by fire, and one life lost. A LIBERAL PROGRAMME. At a meeting of the Liberals the following wan adopted as their platform :—To secure the Victorian market to the Victorian producer in farming stock, and to prevent Chinese competition in mining; to maintain the principle of education, and to raise prospecting for ores to a regular recognised industry. They also decided to endeavor to amend the Land Act, and make local option as effectual as possible. They are desirous of abolishing plural voting and extending the franchise to women. They also favored the imposition of a tax on absentees and a national scheme of sanatory reform. Decided objection was offered to the introduction of criminal pauper immigration. Received March 7th, IL2O p.m. ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. Melbourne, March 7. Margaret Fitzgerald and Mrs Curtis, her ei&ter, have been arrested on a charge of murder, arising out of a case of concealment of birth of an infant. Both the accused recently arrived from New Zealand. Received March Bth. 1.15 cum. ROBBERY ON BOARD A STEAMER. Sydney, March 7. A passenger by the Rockton, from Fiji, reports that on the voyage he was robbed of a portmanteau which contained thirty sovereigns, thirty Napoleons, and £200 worth of \ diamonds and a letter of credit for i£looo. There is not the slightest clue to the robber. APPROACHING EXECUTION. Melbourne, March 7. William Harrison, condemned to death for the murder of John Duggan, at Elmore, near Bendigo, will be executed on the 18th. . COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE. Sentence of death on four young men, Meredith, Batty, Wren, and Minogue, sentenced to death on the 27th February for criminal assault on a woman at Studley Park, has been commuted. The first named three will be imprisoned for twelve years with two floggings, and the last named to seven years and one flogging.