AUSTRALIAN.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7421, 21 September 1889, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

IP- - - PBJSSS ASdOOIATIOM*.] Received September 20t__, 1_.15 p.m. IMPORTED LABOR. Sydney, September 20. • The Trades and Labour Council has decided ta promote a Bill prohibiting the introduction into New South Wales of foreign or British workmen under agreements or contracts. -■ SENTENCE COMMUTED. Weaver, who was sentenced to death at Fiji for the murder pf Captain Greenless, has bad the penalty commuted to imprisonment for life. TEI_EGRAPHS IN fiEAWAIL September 20. ; The Government has received information that at a meeting of the colonial Agents-General in London jt was decided to ask the Imperial Government to intervene to prevent the concession to an American Qo_qpany of the exclusive right to land telegraphs and cables in Hawaii. THE VICTORIAN TARIFF. The House last night passed a resolution increasing the duty on woollen manufactures to 30 per cent. Mr McLean's motion raising tbe duty on maize, beans, peas and hops was carried, and also a motion increasing the duty on wheat to 2s lid per cental. Received September 20th, 10.20 p.m. MR DILLON'S ASSAILANT. Melbourne, September 20. Michael Walsh, the man who pointed a pistol at Mr Dillon, bas been tbe recipient of a letter, illegibly signed, stating---'-1 am sorry to say you are acting a second Piggot for tbe Age and its bigotted readers. Mind you don't meet Piggot's fate. Your's is a put up job." FORGED SCRIP. Adelaide, September 20. There is a panic on the exchange owing to the discovery of a large quantity of forged scrip, principally of tbe Broken Hill mine. Received Seotember -lat, 1 am. THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. Sydney, September 20. Parliament will probably prorogue next week.