MELBOURNE.
February 15. The Government has decided to make a " call" on the House for the Ist of March, when the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill will be taken. Messrs Goldsbrough and Co's review of the past wool season shows that 165,000 bales have been catalogued, and 122,000 bales sold in Victoria during the season. The total shipments amounted to 285,000 being an increase of 25,000 on last year. Parliament resumed its sitting to-day after the recess. In the Legislative Assembly Mr Graham Berry formally moved the second reading of the Reform Bill, and the debate was adjourned. Febiuary 16. In the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr Graham Berry, in the course of his speech in moving the second reading of the Reform Bill, said that, if the ratepayer's roll for the Assembly was fixed on the basis of that for tbe Legislative Council, he saw no democratic objection to the Norwegian scheme of holding a joint sitting of the two Houses for the settlement of the reform question. Arrived, Te Anau from the Bluff. Sailed, Tararua for the Bluff.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3009, 16 February 1881, Page 3
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